Jessamy is eight years old. When readers meet her, she is in a closet. She doesn't mind readers knowing, but she is hesitant to admit it to her mother, who has believed her to be outside. This is but the tip of the iceberg which comprises Jessamy's interior truth, and
A romance can pull me through even a long classic which isn't holding my attention otherwise. This is what got me through Vanity Fair. And of all the chunksters on my shelves, I might stall in some, but I sailed through Mark Helprin's Winter's Tale (even though the romance is largely confined
What are you carting to-and-fro these days? Are you slipping something skinny into your bag? Or has something big and bulky so claimed your reader's affections that you are content to lug it around? I tell myself that I would have a yoga practice already, if only I lived next
What series are you serious about these days? There are five volumes from five different series in my current stack: Angela Thirkell's The Demon in the House, Kelley Armstrong's Personal Demon, Sue Grafton's B is for Burglar, L. Frank Baum's Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz and Madeleine L'Engle's Many
Much of my reading this year has been preoccupied with writing. I've been reading about how Laura Ingalls Wilder's notebooks and autobiographical writing worked their way into fiction for young readers (Pioneer Girl). Robin Robertson edited Mortification, in which writers discuss work-related embarrassments, often unfolding as they were travelling for readings and public
