I found this book a couple of days ago and it was so different and readable that I could not put the book down. When the premise of a book causes me to ignore my huge “to be read” pile, you have to know I loved it. Jesse Sullivan is a rarity in this world […]
Slumber by Samantha Young has one of the best first lines I’ve ever read: “When I was a child the world smelled of summer.” It’s nostalgic. It’s foreboding. If the world still smelled of summer, of bright things, of happy things, there would be no need to remember what life was like when you were […]
Let’s talk about fairy tales. I was fortunate enough to stay with my grandmother, rather than going to daycare, when I was a little girl, and I was even more fortunate that my grandmother loved to read. She read to me constantly, and what did she read? Fairy tales. Anytime there was an occasion to […]