Sunday Sentence: The best sentence(s) from this week, out of context and without commentary. I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us. *Review to follow tomorrow.* ... Read More...
Sunday Sentence: Seating Arrangements
Sunday Sentence: The best sentence(s) from this week, out of context and without commentary. Female friendship was one-tenth prevention and nine-tenths cleanup. - From Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead ... Read More...
Sunday Sentence: The Woman Upstairs
Sunday Sentence: The best sentence(s) from this week, out of context and without commentary. Each one, in my impassioned interior conversations, granted me some aspect of my most dearly held, most fiercely hidden, heart’s desires: life, art, motherhood, love, and the great seductive promise that I wasn’t nothing, that I could be seen for my unvarnished self, this precious ... Read More...
Shakespeare Saved My Life
Dr. Laura Bates is an English professor, specializing in Shakespeare, at Indiana State University. For the past fifteen years she has taught at college and in prison, where she brings Shakespeare into the lives of some of the prison systems most hardened criminals. Shakespeare Saved My Life is her book about this journey and about one inmate in particular that she worked ... Read More...
Easter for Book Lovers
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Giveaway Winner
Happy Friday to everyone! And to those of you socked under in snow you have my deepest sympathy. The March giveaway ended today and using the most stringent scientific standards (wrote each name on piece of paper, put in bowl and let husband pick one) we have a winner: Elaine Taylor! Elaine, I'll email you shortly to get your mailing address. Congratulations! Thank you to ... Read More...
