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Adventures of a man-slut. “This book is not for you.” 27 Aug 2013 | 08:29 pm
If anyone has a clue how to interpret the ending of Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves, I’d be forever grateful. Any ideas? Comments? Please feel free to deposit a few here. Finally, after one bot...
Confession: I bought 3 books in Phoenix 19 Aug 2013 | 07:44 pm
Okay, full disclosure, right? Sigh. The bad news: I purchased 3 books in Phoenix. The good news: I managed to counteract the TBR additions by simultaneously reading and purging 3 other books, specif...
Lamenting the loss of my “hippy hat” 16 Aug 2013 | 09:52 pm
Returning home from vacation is always disorienting. It takes time to get back into the swing of things: email, telephones, calendars, commitments, deadlines, expectations. You have to restock your re...
Weird Sister by Kate Pullinger 12 Aug 2013 | 07:13 pm
While packing for my move at the end of August, I absentmindedly started flipping through the first pages of Weird Sister. I must have purchased this book at least 8 years ago. I couldn’t even remembe...
4 Days in the Grand Canyon 11 Aug 2013 | 12:31 am
After nearly five years of wishing, I finally made it to the Grand Canyon. At 4:30 am on August 2, I stood outside my airport hotel and waited for the vehicle that would take me, and three other hiker...
Stray by Rachel Vincent 9 Aug 2013 | 07:40 pm
Lordy. I asked for cheese, right? Well, I got it… in spades. Stray by Rachel Vincent is actually very entertaining, and her writing moves the story along at a fantastic pace. There were never moments ...
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King 8 Aug 2013 | 07:24 pm
On my way home from Phoenix, when I wasn’t distracted by turbulence and tiny glasses of orange juice, I finally managed to tackle this little gem of a paperback. At only 264 pages long, I didn’t expec...
News, etc. 3 Aug 2013 | 08:47 pm
The epic purge continues 10 down, 390 to go! Earlier this summer, I declared war on my massive collection of books. It hasn’t been easy, and there were moments of wavering interest, but I still manag...
Mathilda Savitch by Victor Lodato 28 Jul 2013 | 07:34 am
Wow. I don’t even know what to say about Mathilda Savitch, the book or the character. Like The Book of Lies, I was mesmerized by a great first paragraph but I feel duped. Swindled. The rug was pulled ...
Writing for children: In conversation with Kathi Appelt 27 Jul 2013 | 12:32 am
Last summer I fell in love with Kathi Appelt’s sad but sweet novel The Underneath, which focused on a lonely, abused dog named Ranger, and the cat family he adopted. I’ve recommended the book to count...
