I don’t live in a remarkable house and therefore haven’t treated it very well. My kids are free to play in any room and we just wait each Monday for our cleaners to straighten things out. Because of the mess and the clutter, I never feel like fresh flowers or other nice things go … [Read more...]
Book of the week—Half a Yellow Sun
My friend and book pen pal (where we send each other more books than letters) Christine sent me this book last year and it’d been on my to read shelf forever, it seemed, even though I’d read Americanah by the same author almost as soon as Christine sent me that. I guess I got … [Read more...]
Book of the week–The Little Red Guard
I read this book earlier this year, just before the Lunar New Year, and wasn't sure I'd be as captivated by another Cultural Revolution memoir as I've been in the past. You know when you've read so much about one topic that you can't possibly think there's anything more one can … [Read more...]
Book of the week–As Lie is to Grin
I saw As Lie is to Grin (Catapult, 2017) at my local public library and was intrigued from the book jacket. The protagonist, David, is an African American student at the University of Vermont, and flashes back to his high school days when he dated Melody, a young woman whose … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Berlin Syndrome
I was looking for something to read and wanted to take a break from my enormous to read pile, so when I found this book at my local public library, I was intrigued by the title. I've never been to Berlin, but it's on my list and when I turned the book over and read the synopsis, … [Read more...]
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