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In the Linus’s Blanket version of twenty questions, I send a list of questions to a willing victim author and they choose which questions and how many questions they want to answer. Jon Michaud, who wrote When Tito Loved Clara: A Novel, played along and answered nineteen questions (which were all the questions that I [...]
The time passes so quickly! I feel like I was just giving away a book for BOOK CLUB. If you are reading along with us, then I hope that you are getting ready for our discussion of Other Press’s Galore, by Michael Crummey over at Devour of Books on Tuesday, April 26th. In the meantime, [...]
On the Shelf Enclave, by Ann Aguirre – I finished this one today and if you like dystopian and YA novels it is a great read. Excellent characterizations and world building. The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie, by Wendy McClure Wishlist The Betrayal of Maggie Blair, [...]
In The Uncoupling, by Meg Wolitzer, a spell slowly works its cold magic on the women of Stellar Heights, New Jersey, causing them to withhold sex and withdraw from their relationships shortly after a new drama teacher arrives and begins to stage a high school production of Lysistrata (the Aristophanes play detailing a sex strike [...]
In Three Hens and a Peacock, written by Lester Laminack and illustrated by Harry Cole, everyone is happy at the Tucker farm until the arrival of a mysterious stranger throws the hens into an uproar of epic proportions. The newcomer is a comely peacock and even though the Tuckers are thrilled with the attention and [...]
In the Linus’s Blanket version of twenty questions, I send a list of questions to a willing victim author and they choose which questions and how many questions they want to answer. Luanne Rice, whose novel The Silver Boat: A Novel is out today, played along and answered thirteen questions. Here is what Luanne had [...]
On My Shelves The Uncoupling: A Novel, by Meg Wolitzer – I read this for an upcoming episode of What’s Old Is New where Jen and I chatted with Meg Wolitzer. An interesting look at the effect on relationships and a community when the wives decide not to have sex anymore. Reading Lips: A Memoir [...]
Christian Lacroix and the Tale of Sleeping Beauty playfully intermingle the upbringing of French fashion icon Christian Lacroix with the story of Sleeping Beauty. The stories of the two main characters barely overlap – Lacroix’s childhood and rise in the fashion world is scarcely outlined, while Beauty’s story is largely intact and unchanged. They seem [...]
At seventy, Raj is still haunted by the ghosts and sadness that have shaped his life, but there has been one ghost in particular that has made it difficult for him to find peace. After a dream Raj is prompted to visit the grave of a boy he once knew, a boy who defined much [...]
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