Category: Book Recommendations

  • Classic Fall Reads

    Classic Fall Reads

    In September, I get nostalgic for school supplies. Speckled composition notebooks. Books with uncracked spines. Even fresh glue sticks. Not that I want to go back to dodgeball in the cafeteria or multiple choice tests or geometry, but I miss that spark of potential in the air, the one that…

  • On Kything

    On Kything

    I’ve loved Madeleine L’Engle’s Wrinkle in Time and the other four books in the series ever since I stepped into Meg Murray’s world decades ago (though A Swiftly Tilting Planet has always been my favorite; Many Waters, not so much). A few weeks ago at the library, I picked up…

  • My Favorite Reads This Year

    My Favorite Reads This Year

    Top Six in Fiction (in no particular order): 1. Middlemarch by George Eliot 2. Aunt Sass: Christmas Stories by P. L. Travers 3. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig . . .