Fly Girl by Ann Hood

May 29, 2022

I’ve read all three of Ann Hood’s previous memoirs, and one of her novels, so of course I picked up Fly Girl. Hood’s just about the same age as I am, so while I was heading off to grad school and my first professional job as a librarian, she was...

Kitchen Yarns by Ann Hood

December 04, 2018

Ah, Ann Hood. I know she’s written other books, and I’ve read other ones, but I identified with her memoir/essay collection Morningstar: Growing Up with Books. Now, she has given us a memoir about another essential part of her life. Kitchen Yarns: Notes on...

Morningstar: Growing Up with Books by Ann Hood

September 03, 2017

Author Ann Hood is only a few months older than me. As a lifelong reader, her memoir, Morningstar: Growing Up with Books, made me nostalgic for my adolescence. No, not for the adolescence itself. For the discovery and freshness and awakening brought about by...

What Are You Reading?

April 06, 2017

Actually, I just finished a book, a marvelous book that made me nostalgic for the years when I was an adolescent reader. Author Ann Hood is only a few months older than me, so some of the books that she read and loved were ones I read around the same age. She talks...

The Book That Matters Most by Ann Hood

August 14, 2016

Pride and Prejudice. Anna Karenina. To Kill a Mockingbird. Ann Hood’s fictional book club discusses these and seven more titles in her latest novel, The Book That Matters Most. But, it’s a book from childhood that mattered the most to the the...