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...
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...