A journey to collect 500 20th century novels by women
I’ve been sitting around all week trying to think of what to say about the wonderful Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg, a Lambda award-winning novel first published in 1993. I couldn’t decide how to possibly summarize what a wonderful job Feinberg does of giving an honest, simple, true voice to pre-Stonewall LGBTQ communities, to …
I am ashamed to say that, for most of my life, I didn’t consider the remarkable women in my family to be all that remarkable – I thought of them as just doing what women do. My grandmother on my father’s side not only got a college degree, but all of her sisters did as …
My book organization has always been, even at the best of times, a bit on the…haphazard side. Living alone as I have for 12 years, things are where I put them and I understand why they are there, and I don’t need to explain to anyone why things are where they are. For example, before …
You are probably not supposed to eat pumpkin applesauce muffins for dinner…but it’s cold and raining, it’s been a bit of a strange week or two, so I find myself under a fuzzy blanket with a cup of tea, reading Stone Butch Blues and eating homemade muffins for dinner. It’s comforting. The mass shooting in …
It had been just long enough since the last time I had read For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf that I had forgotten what Ntozake Shange does to the reader at the end until it was almost upon me – then, like it always does, the moment punched me …
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 …
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 …
