Category: Books

I’m Giving Away Small Mercies

I went out of town for a weekend, and when I got home my stack of mail included several books for review. Inexplicably, I had...

Finding Colin Firth

At my daughter’s school, students are encouraged to find connections between their own life and the stories in the books they read. If I was...

The Dadaists and Big Hero 6

So I’m reading Lipstick Traces and it’s slow going because these beautiful sentences go on and on until your realize that they might not mean...

A Five Star Dilemma

I love the speech at the end of the movie Ratatouille that talks about critics. It starts with the statement, Negative criticism is fun to...

Ride the Lightning Thief

My daughter discovered Percy Jackson in the third grade and hasn’t read much else since. I have defended this choice, because like Neil Gaiman and...