If you’ve been reading my blog, you already know about how amazing Jessica Karbowiak’s creative memoir These Things I Know is. It is thoughtful, it is lyrical, it is feeling. Well, today is your lucky day because it is free on Amazon! Here’s an interview with Jess by the lovely Sarah Martinez if you want to get to … Continue reading »
It is inevitable that one of these days, I’m going to move, and so I’ve been looking at all my belongings and wondering what I can downsize. First, of course, went the old toys, then the old clothes, but recently I have turned my eye to the bookshelves. To many people, just the act of … Continue reading »
I’ve been watching The Princess Bride as a film since I was four or five years old, but I only just read the book. This is a wacky novel for several reasons. First, it’s by William Goldman, who is also a screenwriter of considerable fame, but he claims it is only his annotation of a book by … Continue reading »
This past quarter, I took a literature class on Vladimir Nabokov, author of the ultra-famous Lolita. We read other of his novels as well, including The Eye, Despair, Laughter in the Dark, and Pale Fire. Nabokov is widely respected as a master of language, and there is really little to debate about that. His puns rival Shakespeare’s; his descriptions … Continue reading »
