11 Untranslatable Words From Other Cultures There are words and concepts that cannot be easily explained across cultures, Ella Frances Sanders, “Illustrator in Residence”, tells us, and gives us several…Continue readingHow do you say…?
Random, the first book in my The Were Chronicles series, is now available for pre-order from the publisher, Dark Quest Books. The cover shown here is not the final one…Continue readingWhat if you were a Were?
An icon of American publishing and cornerstone of what were once called the “Seven Sisters” of women’s magazines, Ladies’ Home Journal will cease monthly publication in July after 131 years,…Continue readingLadies’ Home Journal RIP
40 women, 40 words, 40 stories Two weeks after my husband’s stroke, I saw him get up and take his first step since the moment that he was struck down.…Continue readingLife changes
Can you guess these classic books by their one-line spoilers? Alanna Okun asks at BuzzFeed. She gets hit by a train He never shows up The dogs die She was…Continue readingSpoiler alert!
Donna Tartt won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Goldfinch, Time writes, adding that it was no surprise since the novel made the New York Times best-seller list during…Continue readingWomen you should be reading
A 13-year-old eagle huntress in Mongolia – Photo by Asher Svidensky The Kazakhs of the Altai mountain range in western Mongolia are the only people that hunt with golden eagles,…Continue readingShe hunts with eagles
…and embrace an Old Nemesis: Amazon.com Seattle ranks as the country’s second-most literate big city, behind Washington, D.C., as measured by things like the number of bookstores, library resources, newspaper…Continue readingSeattle bookstores soar…
CIA used ‘Doctor Zhivago’ against the USSR A scene from the 1965 film Doctor Zhivago, based on Boris Pasternak’s epic novel. Declassified documents show that the CIA used Doctor Zhivago,…Continue readingBooks as weapons
Top 10 books about intelligent animals From Watership Down to Animal Farm: Author Karen Joy Fowler selects for The Guardian 10 novels filled with anthropomorphic frailties and fantasies ‘Watership…Continue readingSmart critters in literature