Barbara Kingsolver

28 Jul, 2023

Beach Reads??!!

Nancy Admin2023-07-28T06:00:00-07:00Categories: Books, Summer, Summer Reading|Tags: Barbara Kingsolver, Bonnie Garmus, Demon Copperhead, Exit West, Flash Fiction, Ghost Owl, Lessons in Chemistry, Mohsin Hamid, Red-tailed Hawk, Summer Break, Yellow-Billed Magpie|

Time for some summer reading recommendations! Summer is traditionally a time for light beach reads--romances, mysteries, and such. But when I was teaching, summer break was when I’d have time [...]

Celebrating Books

Nancy Admin2020-12-04T06:00:00-08:00Categories: Book Reviews, Books, Christmas, Current Events, Holidays, home, Imagination, Literature, Musings, Sheltering-in-Place, Winter, Winter Weather|Tags: Barbara Kingsolver, books, George Saunders, Margaret Atwood, Michelle Obama, Ursula LeGuin|

I’ve heard it said that Russian novels are so long because Russian winters are so cold! What better way to spend time inside than reading a book? In Iceland I hear [...]

Good Summer Reads

Nancy Admin2013-07-20T09:19:12-07:00Categories: Books, Current Events, Writing|Tags: Barbara Kingsolver, Blind Assassin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gillian Flynn, Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Literature, Margaret Atwood, Poverty, Prodigal Summer, Year of the Flood|

Marketers would have us believe that summer is the time for books that are light and frothy, suitable for beach or poolside reading. But since I generally didn’t work for [...]