On the Threshold
The Threshold It’s been a while (and I use that term modestly) since I’ve been on the threshold. And by...
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Slaughterhouse Five
The Book and Kurt Slaughterhouse-Five captured my imagination (the book) and admiration (the author) on my initial read (way back...
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...
