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thanksgiving day! what a month of delicious reads. and i haven’t even scratched the surface of my violent and crazy love of books. if you asked, i wouldn’t admit to a favorite book. i wouldn’t want any of my other books to get jealous: for crime and punishment to crawl off its shelf or for death [...] phillip lopate, one of the current gods in creative nonfiction, selected a few century’s worth of essays from seneca to woolf, montaigne to didion. lopate’s introduction to this collection is pivotal to an understanding of the genre. if essays intimidate you, start here. with a little patience, you’ll find something (whether it be mcphee or [...] this is one of those “coming of age” novels that i clung to as i fumbled and stumbled my way through junior high and high school. elnora comstock is sassy and bright, empathetic and curious. and those lunches! my tummy dreams of the packed lunches of elnora comstock. and occasionally, when no one is looking, i [...] here’s to very small women with magic rice paddles! thank goodness this book is back in print.read it religiously, once a year. tune out the kids. turn off the TV. light a candle. melt into something soft. and just read. read read read. it’s the tale of prue sarne, a woman stricken with a hare-lip (or rather, a cleft-lip, for those of us who need [...] |
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