What? What is this? A book about Barbie? What am I - a philistine or something? In my pre-teen years, I inherited a whole bunch of books from my mother's and my favorite aunt's childhood collections. My mother's books consisted of about 50-75 hardcover "horse story" books - Misty of Chincoteague, Justin Morgan Had a …
Continue reading 365 Books: Barbie’s Fashion Success by Bette Lou Maybe
Feeling stuck? It happens to the best of us. The characters in this gem by Patricia McKillip are all stuck in their own ways. Aaron, a cop, has been searching for an answer to why Terra Veridian opened fire with a laser rifle and took out 1509 people, including Aaron's wife. He is sure that …
Continue reading 365 Books: Fool’s Run by Patricia A. McKillip
Do you have trouble letting people in? Sal, the heroine of Mistwalker, has witnessed so much loss in her life, that she struggles to let people get too close to her. The planet - Ver Day - where she lives, is a tough place. The original settlers escaped an ecological hellscape where the land, water, …
Continue reading 365 Books: Mistwalker by Denise Lopes Heald
Do you know someone who gets stuck on something they like and, maybe, has trouble accepting other options? If you have to persuade children or executives to do things differently, you probably see it all the time. They know what they want and that's what they want. You can try to get them to try …
Continue reading 365 Books: But Excuse Me That is My Book by Lauren Child
Climate change got you down? Try a little Dirt. For this purpose, you'll want the Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations by David R. Montgomery though, not the Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking by Bill Buford.* I stole my copy of this …
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