Global Reading Challenge
As so many significant events in my life, it happened at the library. It all started with a stack of bookmarks printed with a list...
Small Mercies Giveaway Winner
When I got home from a weekend trip to Bend and found two review copies of Small Mercies by Eddie Joyce waiting in my stack...
Enchantment Lake
I never read Nancy Drew until my daughter got a haircut a couple of years ago that prompted people to say she looked like the...
Ambassador Kate DiCamillo at Seattle Public Library
Kate DiCamillo has a Southern accent. I did not expect this because I do not hear it in the lyrical rhythms of her wide-eyed fiction....
China Dolls
I have been a fan of Lisa See since On Gold Mountain, so I was excited to receive a review copy of China Dolls before...