A journey to collect 500 20th century novels by women
I was going to blog earlier in the week, honest I was. But it’s the postseason around here and I’ve been Distracted By Baseball. My mother and I have watched the postseason together most years since I graduated college; the last couple of years, since I’ve gotten cable, we’ve texted snarky comments to each other …
So, I decided to just up and go to Denver for a couple days. A little on the spontaneous side, but one of my favorite bands, The National, was playing Red Rocks, a super famous venue I’d never been to, and I thought, why not? I don’t have kids, so I can do things like …
My sister asked me a question the other day that I realized I hadn’t exactly worked into my FAQs, and I think a few other people have put this to me in one way or another since I began collecting books for the library, which is this: am I going to kick any books out …
It’s probably no surprise that issues of literacy have been important to my family for as long as I can remember. My paternal grandmother, after a career teaching English and Latin to high schoolers, taught English as a Second Language (ESL), which was always very important work to her. My mother, after a career teaching …
Well, there’s no real two ways about it – it’s been a tough couple of weeks for those of us in the states. Regardless of where you fall in politics, or if you try to avoid politics altogether, it’s been hard to avoid the press leading up to the Kavanaugh hearings and the national discussion …
Octavia Butler, where have you been all my life? Well, I actually know the answer to that question: you were in the science fiction section of the bookstore, a section I never went into. Why did I never go into that section, though? If I had ever thought consciously about it, I would have thought …
Since I’ve become a bit of a clearinghouse for books, friends have starting taking notice, especially when they’re in the process of downsizing or clearing out shelves. I became the recent lucky recipient of a whole box of gorgeous books from my friend Teri’s collection. Not only are the books awesome, but they were received …
