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I’ve read some wonderful middle grade novels so far this summer, and there’s a tall stack still waiting for me. My Son Number Two, who is my great reader, has […]

In 1998 my second son was born. He was a lazy nurser and didn’t gain weight as fast as doctors would have liked. I settled on a plan to nurse […]

How shall I read Ethan Frome? It’s my first Edith Wharton novel. My studies in early 20th Century American literature are grossly lacking, so I fear I lack the proper […]

As a child, I reread my sister’s copy of Little Women until my mother bought me my own, which I then lovingly destroyed. But I never made much sense of […]

For three days I’ve been the hopeless prisoner of Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel North and South (1855), presented in audiobook format by BBC and superbly narrated by Juliet Stevenson. It’s 18.3 […]

My cat, by instinct, knows when she needs to gnaw on my houseplants to soothe her troubled belly, and sometimes I, in much the same way, know instinctively what I […]

On Tuesday, October 12, my latest hardcover, Secondhand Charm, hit the shelves, published by Bloomsbury Children’s Books. So began a whirlwind of activity which I will try to document below. […]

Books I’ve enjoyed recently: CATCHING FIRE by Suzanne Collins (sequel to Hunger Games)I started reading this the same night that I finished HUNGER GAMES, even though it was 3 a.m., […]