Now I wonder if I didn’t dream it. This image of a red rose and a white spider curled inside the petals. Was it a part of this story? Or, does it belong in one of the other books I’ve been reading this week? Even though I’ve reread “Jorinda and
Last year, February’s tally suggested it was one of my busiest reading months. Which I chalk up to January being over-stuffed with reading ambitions, which overflowed into the following month. This year, that feels true once more. With the exception of L’Arabe du futur, a graphic memoir scooped up randomly
Ruth is equal parts infuriating and hurting. Like Karin, in Alice Munro’s “Rich as Stink”, these girls are angered and confused by the connections they observe between the adults in their lives. In “Thank You for the Lovely Tea”, readers meet Ruth when she is desperate to be out of
My read-o-lutions for 2019 are much as they were for the past year: keep on reading on. (2018 was a great reading year!) Except more non-fiction, more poetry, more letters, more graphic novels and comics. More storybooks, writers' biographies and histories. The underlying theme? More. But not necessarily more
Once again, GoodReads has done a fine job of summarizing my reading (I wish they hadn't been bought out by Amazon). This year comes up with 336 books or 82,982 pages. (How do I do it? I mercilessly exploit my commutes and read as often as I can, including
