Margaret Atwood

4 Dec, 2020

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 [...]

My Favorite Color

Nancy Admin2013-07-11T22:00:28-07:00Categories: Current Events|Tags: Big Brother, Color, Color preferences, James Taylor, Margaret Atwood, Pottery Barn, Wordpress|

My favorite color is green. Specifically blue green, shades of turquoise and aqua. It’s not that I don’t like all the other colors, but I tend to favor green. I [...]