Elspeth Cameron's And Beauty Answers: The Life of Frances Loring and Florence Wyle Cormorant Books, 2007 It certainly wasn't something that a lot of women were doing in the early 1900s; girls weren't lining up to become sculptors. But Frances Loring and Florence Wyle did just that, meeting in 1906
Houghton Mifflin, 1986 "I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting." So says the narrator, whom we know as Offred. But that's not her real name. And it doesn't feel to her that this is her real life, what
They don't have to be lumped in with your vegetables, with what you think is good for you: there are some terrific short story collections just waiting to shatter your expectations of the form. Ivan Coyote's Missed Her Arsenal Pulp, 2010 These stories are very short (usually 4 pages), so
Actually, they are freaking hilarious in the hands of Joey Comeau. But I just need to back up a bit. I need to say that, since I started my Fridays are for Letters, I have only read two of the books that I planned to read. Stuff happens
Hardcover edition, 2006 When the cover of Bitter Chocolate caught her eye, and a co-worker asked me what I was reading, she said "Well, what else would those kids be doing anyway". A brief outline of the child labour practices in the cocoa industry and she could have cared less. She
