If you drew a map of your world, what would it look like? When I was in grad school, we participated in the exercise of drawing a map of our offices.* I chose to draw a map of my floor: my office was along the route to the lunch room, a high-traffic route that meant …
Continue reading 365 Books: Scales of Justice by Ngaio Marsh
What stories do you tell yourself? This book is, more than anything else, a book about stories. There are the stories that the other 10-year-olds make up about Pia after her grandmother dies in an Advent wreath accident one nightmarish Christmas season, stories meant to hurt and drive away someone that makes them feel uncomfortable …
Continue reading 365 Books: The Vanishing of Katharina Linden by Helen Grant
Ah, Amelia Peabody. There is nobody in the world now like Amelia Peabody. A combination of the high-handed confidence of a Victorian lady who is assured of her rightness, the compassion for underdogs that comes from noblesse oblige, and the intellect of an only daughter and youngest child, raised on classical scholarship. I want Amelia …
Continue reading 365 Books: Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
I've been organizing my eBooks onto shelves by subject, something I had been putting off for a few years. I just realized how many eBooks I have that I bought, read on a plane or something, and forgot about. Somehow it's easier to do that with e- as opposed to p-books. When real books are …
Sometimes, when I am picking out books to write about for this series, I decide I'm going to write about books about women on the frontier west, for example, pull out a whole pile of those, stack them on the coffee table next to my writing chair... and then get writer's block. I think my …
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