I finished The Shadow Year by Hannah Richell while I was in the throes of grading exams. A good story is the only way I know to soothe the insanity of May, or Mayhem as we now know it in our house. It fascinates me every year how many activities can be stuffed into 31 days. I won't lie- I love … [Read more...]
Keep Making Lemonade
This week I heard that an old friend from high school has a brain tumor. She's 43 years old and has a whole family spilling with children, a husband, a dog, and horses. There's also a career and friends and hobbies- you know, a life. A whole life. And no one knows right now what it all means. … [Read more...]
Review: The Wife, The Maid, and The Mistress
Well. I have a new favorite novel. AND- it's a debut novel. Ariel Lawhon has taken us back to the New York of 1930 drenched with jazz clubs, mob bosses, show girls, political scandals, and all the glamour of the Art Deco era. She tells the story of Judge Joseph Crater's disappearance amidst a … [Read more...]
Love Water Memory
Perhaps not knowing who you were is much worse than not knowing who you are. Mainly because who you are is fluid and changing, but who you were determines a lot of who you are and who you become. So what happens when who you were is wiped clean? Gone. That's what happens to 39-year-old Lucie. … [Read more...]
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