Every author gets them – I’ve had a couple myself – but the justifications for the grade are often remarkable.“The only people that maybe could read it, are very old…Continue readingThose one-star reviews
Not any more! Boys like pirates, science and sports. Girls like princesses, fuzzy animals, and cooking. That’s how it was at Scholastic, a major children’s publishing house, until an 8-year-old…Continue readingBoys only?
Languages change. But losing words like “Buttercup” and “Kingfisher” in favor of things like “Broadband” and “chatroom”saddens me. In Orion, Robert Macfarlane talks about an edition of the Oxford Junior…Continue readingDisappearing words
Distractify offers us: 20 Of History’s Most Brilliant Minds And Their Drug Of Choice Lots of famous names here: Vincent van Gogh – Absinthe and Digitalis, Sigmund Freud – cocaine,…Continue readingBrilliant junkies
Facing declining visitors and uncertainty about what to do about it, library administrators in in the Netherlands did something extraordinary, Cat Johnson writes at Dailygood.org.They tossed out traditional methods of…Continue readingLibrary or bookstore?
Blogger Jamie offers her: “Top Ten Books For Readers Who Like Not-So-Easy-To-Like Characters” I see a lot of discussion in book reviews and online about unlikeable characters…so often they are…Continue readingUnlikeable? Really?
When I was a little girl one in my family’s extensive collection of 45 rpm singles — remember those? turntables? vinyl? — was a record of Grieg’s Peer Gynt suite.…Continue readingI will walk with you…
Rivers have always been very important to humankind, I say in the intro to my anthology, River. They’ve been called gods. They’ve been blessed and cursed and venerated and used…Continue readingRIVER
Today marks the 90th anniversary of Scribner’s publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, The Great Gatsby. “During my junior year of high school,” Kara Watson writes at Off the Shelf,…Continue readingTurning 90
A reader in Spain, Amy P, posted this note on Goodreads about my miracle novel, The Secrets of Jin-shei: Cuarta vez que leo este libro y no será la última.…Continue readingMy God: It’s been 10 years?