I’m a Magpie
My One Hundred Adventures, by Polly Horvath • Schwartz & Wade Books, 2008. 272 Pages.
I’ve already waxed poetic on summer homes, and the way that the time breaks free of chronometrical devices and becomes attuned to the more natural rhythms of sunrise, sunset, childhood and adolescence. I think summer houses are liminal places, too, existing on [...]
In Search of April Raintree: Critical Edition, by Beatrice Culleton Mosionier (Critical Edition edited by Cheryl Suzack). Portage & Main Press, 1999.
April and Cheryl Raintree are Métis sisters growing up in Manitoba. Taken from their alcoholic parents after their youngest sister dies, the two are separated and raised in a variety of foster homes. April, the [...]
Love You Forever, by Robert Munsch, Illustrated by Sheila McGraw • Firefly Books 2009 (75th printing, first published 1986).
I’m just going to come right out and say it: I hate this book. I hate everything about it, from the smirking, toilet-trashing toddler on the cover (who, a larger illustration two pages in to the story [...]
Wondrous Strange, by Lesley Livingston• HarperCollins, 2009
There’s something to be said for ebooks — I downloaded this one from my library, and I have to say, with the borderline Twilight-meets-bosom-heaver cover, I’m not sure I’d have taken the genuine, real world book-book off the shelves.
But I’m glad I got my hands on it one way [...]
For the next year, I’ll be taking part in Pajiba’s Cannonball Read, joining one hundred other bloggers as we read and review 52 books in one year.
The first time I ever heard of Cynthia Ozick I was probably about twelve. Someone gifted my parents with Spy Magazine’s Separated at Birth?, one of those gifty, funny, [...]
For the next year, I’ll be taking part in Pajiba’s Cannonball Read, joining one hundred other bloggers as we read and review 52 books in one year.
Today I’ll be reviewing my first book: Stephen Fry’s novel, “Making History.”
There’s a certain romance to “what if.” At night, when I can’t sleep, I have a box of [...]
I'm a freelance writer and perpetual graduate student living in San Francisco. Special skills include dog charming, brochure writing, slapdash cooking and long-winded nattering. I also enjoy watching the sunset reflected in the tall buildings downtown.
For a while there, I taught classes on Classical literature, philosophy, and the history of religion at New College of California. I have an MA and an MFA in Writing, and started library school in the fall of 2009.