The Sill of the World

Somehow my American girlhood went by without a single reading of Little Women . So for the Classics Club Challenge , I read it. I can't...

I'm sorry for the nearly month-long absence on this blog. The reason was a combination of lots of work and a needed blog break. antici...

At the end of April, I went on a ranger-led hike of Inwood Hill Park at the north tip of Manhattan, then walked down along the island's ...

anticipatory He'll ask you a question he thinks you can't answer. As you pause to think, he'll line up the first words of his l...

Title: Ashputtle: Or, the Mother’s Ghost Author: Angela Carter Where I Read It: Mothers & Daughters Carter writes three versions of t...

Title: Donal Webster Author: Colm Tóibín Where I Read It: The Book of Other People This is a meditative and melancholy story, where the n...