Category: Books

How to Write a Story

When my daughter was in the first grade, her teacher used this worksheet to teach them story structure. Never mind that I never had a...

Half Told Stories

How many things that I love can you fit in one picture? A bookstore. Featuring diverse stories (which is another way of saying stories you...

A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear

I’m terrible about starting book clubs and reading challenges and never finishing them. But the idea of a “reading around the world” challenge has been...

My 2019 in Books

Another year, another Goodreads Challenge. Since I started reading so many graphic novels, setting my challenge goal has been a challenge in itself. On the...

Because I’ve Read The Shock Doctrine

Because We've Read leads me to important works I wouldn't have read on my own. Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine was their choice for September,...