Category: Summer Reading 2018

I would normally not think of placing these two books side by side- but having read them one after the other, I find that they share a real-ness and rawness that is very engaging..  Reading both books, I felt as if I was hanging out with a friend for an afternoon of tea and story-telling. 

I finally finished Kelly Sundberg’s memoir, Goodbye Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Abuse and Survival, this morning. I’d been wanting to delve in for a while now, and had started her book at least a couple of months ago, I think, but I read the bulk of it in the last week and a

I learned about this book when I saw Jacqueline Patterson speak at UC Davis a few months ago. She spoke about environmental racism in the United States– demonstrating systematic inequality of minorities, especially those who are poor. She cited this book when referring to some of the issues related to access to insurance, as well

My new house is an old highwater bungalow on a quiet tree lined street. The trio of windows in the living room look out on a large maple tree.  It makes the living room feel like a tree house. The branches are a favorite playground for the family of squirrels that live here. This morning

I’ve taken a hard right turn in my reading during the past week, taking up a text assigned as summer reading for the Meadows Museum docent program. This book is a compact (only 231 pages) overview of the history of Spanish painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and architecture, starting with cave painting and ending in the

Hello everyone! I know we are already a few weeks in, but I haven’t been able to bring myself to post. Since I feel this is a forum that is safe and understanding, I will share that I have had a recent incident with the library. Yes, the library. I’m sure this will be amusing

My second book of the challenge (158 pages) is The Gangster We Are All Looking For, a novel by le thi diem thuy (she does not capitalize her name). She published this book in 2003, but I had known about her as a writer before that, because we lived in the same area—Western Massachusetts. Last

I bought this book when I was living in Central Pennsylvania and in my second or third year of ModPo. Julia Bloch is one of the wonderful people who is part of ModPo- the modern poetry MOOC some of us bloggers are a part of. I had paged through it a few times, but this

This book of Science Fiction was originally published in 1969. This edition, with a series introduction by Neil Gaiman, was published by Penguin Books in 2016. The six classic books included in the series are The Once and Future King (1958), Stranger in a Strange Land (1961), Dune (1965), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), The Left