What Are You Reading?

April 11, 2019

It’s Thursday! Let’s talk about what you’re reading, or what you’ve read in the last week, since the last time we “talked”. How many of you remember the cartoon “Cathy”? I read the cartoon regularly, and identified with...

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...

A Paris All Your Own edited by Eleanor Brown

July 16, 2017

After Eleanor Brown researched her own book, The Light of Paris, she wondered why people love Paris so much. And, she was surprised to see how many female, heterosexual, white women, bestselling authors, had written about Paris. So, she went to seventeen other women...

Upstream by Mary Oliver

November 29, 2016

A friend asked me if I read poetry, and I said not really. But, I respect the turn of a phrase, the rhythm, the poetic handling of words in an essay. I don’t often read what critics call “literature”. However, I’m a fan of essays, and with a...

The View from the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman

June 13, 2016

Neil Gaiman takes my breath away with his vision of everything, how he looks at the world. Of his collection, The View from the Cheap Seats, he says, “This book is not ‘the complete nonfiction of Neil Gaiman.’ It is, instead, a motley bunch of speeches and...