Slaughterhouse Five
The Book and Kurt Slaughterhouse-Five captured my imagination (the book) and admiration (the author) on my initial read (way back...
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The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
Can a Knife Be a Page-Turner? I’m late to the book, but I just finished The Knife of Never Letting...
A Step Forward with Fast Backward
Fast Backward Didn’t Happen Fast. Fast isn’t my middle name. If I were a Great Plains farmer who’d endured a...
The Alex Crow by Andrew Smith
What the Hell’s an Alex Crow? The Alex Crow: unbridled imagination, inspired (and inspiring) storytelling. Andrew Smith’s tale isn’t for...
NaNoWriMo
NaNoWriMo is on the Horizon. But last week I was only thinking about NaNoWriMo. I was busy, on the road,...
Serendipity
On December 20, 1991, I was unemployed. Not destitute, mind you (this isn’t a story about facing Christmas with a...
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Wow! There are a few books I’ve read that deserve their own category, their own frame of reference or comparison....
Nobody Saw Anything
Twenty-four years ago this month, my first book for young readers, Someone Was Watching, was published by Albert Whitman. Not...
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
Sometimes you read an award-winning book and you think, Hmm. Sometimes you think, Good choice. And then you read one...
