The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman

July 21, 2018

I didn’t know what I was actually picking up when I checked out Neil Gaiman’s fairy tale, The Sleeper and the Spindle. Earlier this week, I mentioned his quote, “I like stories where women save themselves”, and he was talking about fairy tales....

What Are You Reading?

July 19, 2018

“I like stories where women save themselves.” That’s a quote from Neil Gaiman, a quote about fairy tales. I do, too. That’s why Belle in Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” is my favorite Disney character. She saves her father and...

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

March 06, 2017

I remember reading all kinds of mythology, legends and fairy tale books when I was in fourth grade. Those stories all came together as part of cultural literacy, although I certainly wouldn’t have thought of that at the age of nine or ten. But, I can recognize...

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...

Libraries

April 19, 2016

Let’s talk about libraries. For some reason, three of the books I’m reading involve libraries in one way or another (and one involves books and teenagers, while the final one has nothing to do with the subject). Let’s talk as Seth Margolis did, about...