Writers Read
Writer-producer Marshal Zeringue invited me to post on his Writers Read blog, where I had the opportunity to write about the books I am currently reading. The same post appears…
Tears and snots for just one book so far
The Books on the Nightstand blog recently featured a post asking about the books that cause readers to cry. I am not one to cry while reading a book, with…
Life magazine for free!
Life magazine, 1935-1972, is now available online through Google Books. It joins Life magazine’s photo archive, also available courtesy of Google. I just spent an hour reading through issues from…
This artificially-flavored book is not dedicated to you.
Sandra Boynton has become my favorite children’s author. Nothing makes me happier than reading one of her Pookie books to my daughter. One of our new favorites is her non-Pookie…
Zombies!
Check it out. A zombie wedding cake! Do you like it? In terms of unconventional and nonconforming things like this, I believe that people fall into one of three camps:…
Water Street Books
I spent last night at Water Street Books in Exeter, NH, discussing Something Missing with enthusiastic readers. It’s a beautiful independent bookstore located along a quaint little street lined with…
Not all books should be recorded
Where the Wild Things Are - a book I have never read consists of only ten sentences - yet it is the second most popular audiobook in the iTunes Music…
Raven
I wrote about group descriptors in the animal world a while ago—words like a murder of crows and a pride of lions. I also proposed a few of my own,…
Ten-year-old genius
In the spirit of Connie Wanek’s "Radiator" and William Carlos Williams's "The Red Wheelbarrow," I challenged my students to identify a topic that no poet has ever written about before.…
