Some of you may recall my debating over which book to read for Freedom to Read week, but the question was settled for me when I came upon an entry in Elizabeth Smart's Journals (which I was reading for the Women Unbound Reading Challenge). On July 26, 1933 she records the
Ray Robertson's Moody Food (2002) A hundred pages into Moody Food, I was still wondering if this was really The Book for Me. And, admittedly, that's the feeling I had right at the start: a football scene is not a cozy welcome for this reader. But there was also a
When I re-subscribed to Brick Magazine earlier this year, a pull-down menu asked how I had heard about their publication. I sat and thought about it but finally filled the field with this: I feel as though I've always known about Brick. But, when I revisit my magazine files (carefully
Paule Marshall's Brown Girl Brownstones VMC No. 87 (1959) Without knowing anything of it, I chose Paule Marshall's novel Brown Girl, Brownstones to read with Black History Month in mind (along with Hannah Crafts' The Bondwoman's Narrative and Zora Neale Hurston's Jonah's Gourd Vine). It was kind of a random
Elizabeth Smart’s Journals, Edited by Alice van Wart Necessary Secrets (1991) and On the Side of the Angels (1994) Let’s say you haven’t even heard of this writer before and, as a good little feminist, you wonder why I’ve chosen to read her for the Women Unbound Challenge, and you
