A Knight in Shining Armor, by Jude Deveraux This essay was originally written as a guest review for the website Dear Author, under another pseudonym (Fallen Professor). I recently found my hard drive copy and wanted to share it here; you can also read the original post, with discussion, at this link. A COUPLE OF … Continue reading Bookish Thoughts: A Knight in Shining Armor
War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. War and Peace is a novel that has become almost a punchline; it's used to indicate the tedious and impossible, the most herculean of reading efforts. It's a doorstop of a book, a Pandora's box containing decades of historical events, a large … Continue reading Tweeting Tolstoy: War, Peace, and Pandemic
This essay was originally published on Medium. A Radical Guide for Women with ADHD, by Sari Solden and Michelle Frank(Affiliate link to Bookshop.org, a great site helping support independent bookstores.) The Great Unraveling Shortly after the birth of my second child, my brain finally started unraveling. This, I now see, had been a long time … Continue reading Bookish Thoughts: The Year My Brain Unraveled
