Its an exploration about taking care of an old house but also about trying to learn and understand the inherent racism in the area. the writer is delightfully naïve and witty and I enjoyed every page of his story. Everything in this Country Must by Colum McCann I am generally not a fa...
you need this book. If you find yourself scrolling and liking and commenting while your child is taking a bath and trying to show you their imaginative underwater adventure, you need this book. If you feel anxious and overwhelmed at work so all you do during breaks or when you get home ...
Here’s a good piece on how the ubiquitous IKEARåskog trolley(seen above) has become famous as the TBR (to be read) cart on social media. Move over bedside table: IKEA is bringing on competition. That trolley is old and good. What’s new and good from IKEA is theVINDSTYRKA smart ...
This sketch, from the the story-a-day anthology 365 Days that Kay Boyle edited with her then-husband Laurence Vail and her friend Nina Conarain, is one of the most powerful in the entire book. Pregnant with her third child, Boyle found herself with the burden of filling the many gaps i...
Arcana heartily agrees with all of the above. Please join us in taking a break from holiday chaos to celebrate the ageless spirit of "boy-girl revolution," as Huggy Bear put it. The holiday cheer at this gathering is generously supported by our friends at Open Beer and Las Jaras Wines....
… From all accounts, William did the lion’s share of the Beggarstaff work, so it is amusing to find in a published interview of the period Jimmy taking the lead, “telling the tale,” with only an occasional, rather lordly, reference to his partner. (p. 56) Craig from Ted’s ...
She’s so conceited and vapourish, taking it for granted that everybody will be interested to read that on such-and-such a night she woke up and felt passionate. She was a beast to the Gaudier-Brczeskas, anyway.” No apology for quoting so much from the novel. Otherwise how could ...
She travels Europe in search of work, taking on tutoring jobs in Greece, London and Paris, all the while keeping her eyes peeled for a woman she's convinced is her double that she first saw at a flea market in Athens. It's a story filled with doubles, languid summer scenes, sadness ...
Book Summary: A young woman in 18th-century France makes a deal to live forever – only a curse comes with it: everyone she meets will forget her. That is until 300 years later when Addie meets a young man who remembers her name. Why You Should Read: The Invisible Life of Addie Lar...
While there is still much to be done, there have been tremendous strides made in increasing the diversity of children’s literature; however one area