Happy New Year, everyone! For the first time ever, one of my New Year’s Resolutions last year was to read 50 books in 2011. Between…
“And the story goes she never forgave him. She looked out the window her whole life, the way so many women sit their sadness on…
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” – The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde *…
As I work to complete my 50 Book Challenge of 2011 (in which I’m lagging a little behind, so feel free to send me book…
When I was nine years old, I made the most magical discovery of my life. One day, at the elementary school book fair, I picked…
“The other problem with all this swinging through the vines of thought is that you are never where you are. You are always digging in…
When I was a sophomore in high school, one of the final assignments in my intro to journalism class was to write an article about…
“Thank you, Little Queen. Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh…
As I make my way through The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (yes, I’m still reading it — my summer has been hectic!), I can’t…
“It’s not that we had no heart or eyes for pain. We were all afraid. We all had our miseries. But to despair was to…