It’s pretty helpful to have a twin along for the joyride that is middle school, especially one who can help you figure out how the other half thinks! My niece and nephew have each other’s backs. This past week, they gave…
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You’ll quickly learn how little you know about anything, including how to talk about it. I’m being schooled regularly by my own teenagers when they aren’t too salty to have a conversation. Getting a new iphone 6? Hype! The way…
A woman long dead – marvelous and bold and complicated – is the subject of Paula McLain’s new novel, Circling the Sun. Read this book if you want to spend more time in Paula McLain’s company (The Paris Wife). I wouldn’t blame…
I raved about Dietland a couple of weeks ago at Bacon and pressed it upon my friend Grace Awh, who was headed to Vienna and Prague and was looking for a good read on the plane. She called me today with…
I have a book to recommend to you – a grown up tale, and true – that has every bit as much cruelty, wonder and suspense as you find in the world of Charlie Bucket and Willy Wonka. “I grew…
Honestly, I’ve felt a little sad thinking about the release of Go Set a Watchman next Tuesday, July 14th. It seems hard to know if this book was ever meant for the world. But today’s first chapter published in the Wall Street…
And you’re just tired of it, read Dietland, by Sarai Walker, a funny and sharp debut novel that I found electrifying. It’s not always polite. But I can promise that you won’t put it down once you’ve started! This book will make…
Walking into a cool library on a hot summer day is like stepping back in time. I often took my two young daughters when it was too hot to go to the pool or maybe it was raining. We went to…
“Actually, I’m a failed opera singer,” Ruta Sepetys says with a smile, but it’s the kind of smile that lets you know it still hurts. That was chapter one. Chapter two: she went to Los Angeles and worked in the…