Sometimes the slimmest books are the ones that take the most time to read, demand the most focus, insist on a cup of coffee rather than a glass of wine. Stella Sandford's How to Read Beauvoir struck that alarm bell for me. All the more loudly as I have not.
"Being 16 is officially the worst thing I've ever been." That's Kimberly Keiko Cameron (aka Skim) speaking. "Why do the students call you Skim?" her English teacher, Ms Archer asks. "Because I'm not," Skim answers. Adolescence is such a horrid time: you're called what you're not, you want
New reading projects are rooted in personal indulgence for me. Those unwieldy spreadsheets? The gobs of time spent thinking about reading and planning my reading? They eat directly into my reading time and steal from other relationships in my life -- the bookish-sort, the non-bookish-sort (which are outnumbered). And, yet,
A dozen stories, nearly all about women and girls who are deaf, Louise Stern being the fourth generation of her own family to be born deaf. See all those dots on the cover? Sure, more than a dozen, so imagine them as characters, not stories. Then imagine that each of the
When I was working in a bookshop, this is the sort of book we would have put on the counter near the cash register. House of Anansi, 2012 It is a certain sort of customer who deliberately includes this section of a bookshop in their browsing rather than
