Dejunking: The Book that Motivated Me
I’ve been dejunking my house. It is all due to the book For Packrats Only: How to Clean Up, Clear Out, …
Tag Archives: Book Reviews
Smashing One’s Face Against a Mirror: Lolita
I did it. I finally read Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov. If you’ve been aware of or following my attempts …
I Noticed Seagulls: Birds and Breast Cancer
I can almost always see seagulls flying overhead. They fly over my house, sometimes so high that I can barely …
Reading Maile Meloy
I first read Maile Meloy’s work through a short story in an anthology I had purchased during my Master’s program. …
A Memoir of Being a Librarian with Tourette’s
I need to come right out and say that I’m biased about this book. I am friends with the author, …
The Grapes of Wrath Is About My People
I have ancestors—my great grandmother, Alabama Gray (she preferred to be called Bonnie), in fact—who traveled from Oklahoma to California …
Literary Wives: American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
Today is the first day of the Literary Wives series! The first book to be reviewed is American Wife (2008) …
A Diantha Book by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I have an amazing colleague named Diantha. She is a Master’s student at my university and a former elementary school …
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe: An Allegory for Parents
I never read this book as a child. It’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) by C. S. …
World Literature and Othering
As I mentioned in my post on The Kite Runner, I took a world literature class while working on a …
