Who is your favorite fairy tale princess? I'm kind of partial the wife in Bluebeard. But not the one who cowered and wept and waited for her brothers to rescue her. The original one, who found out what was up before she married him, then stood up at her wedding feast and exposed him for …
Continue reading 365 Books: Don’t Bet on the Prince by Jack Zipes
This Thanksgiving, my sister warned me to "bring a sweatshirt" because it was cold in Reno. It was cold in Reno. It was positively freezing in her home - we were all bundling up inside as much as we were outside. I thought she was trying to save money by not running the heat. But …
Continue reading 365 Books: How Buildings Learn by Stewart Brand
Do you see pictures when you read? I do - I see pictures of the world the author describes, the people (to some extent, but mostly in flashes); if the author describes someone following footprints in the dirt, I see the footprints. I thought this was normal but a recent conversation with someone made me …
Continue reading 365 Books: The Widows of Broome by Arthur Upfield
Sam, Bangs, and Moonshine is the first book I remember reading. Again, a gift from, I suspect, my grandmother, Mimi, the book felt like it was about me. Sam is a little girl who lives in an isolated house on an island with her beloved father, who is a sailor and often away from home. …
Continue reading 365 Books: Sam, Bangs, and Moonshine by Evaline Ness
Why do we like what we like? On the first page, Mrs. Pollifax's doctor - in 1966 - diagnoses her with depression. Her husband has died; her adult children have moved away. Although she volunteers and participates in the garden club, she feels she has outlived her usefulness. The doctor suggests that she take up …
Continue reading 365 Books: The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman
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