Because of travel, April was not as reading-strong as I would have liked. The Wilder Boys Saving Cody by Brandon Wallace is the third in this middle-grade series which is the genre I write in, and the protagonists are two brothers, which is another similarity to my own manuscript. Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote…
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What I’m Reading: The Essay by Robin Yocum
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I love discovering an author whom I’ve never read – sometimes never heard of – through friends or other recommendations. When I read a book by such an author, I am apprehensive of what my reaction will be. Just because a friend or family member liked it, will I? Robin Yocum is an example of…
March Reads
The Paris Bookseller and Fried Green Tomatoes contain strong bonds between women who work together, live together, and even love together. In Remarkably Bright Creatures, the hero for me was the female protagonist, Tova, more so than the octopus, Marcellus, although I did enjoy seeing what he was up to. In her memoir, The Glass…
February Reads
I read three books – two fiction and one autobiography for February. All different from each other, but in each the mother and child relationship plays a key role. In Pachinko and Mom & Me & Mom (the autobiography of Maya Angelou) the mother-child relationship evolves over a lifetime. In Very Valentine, the grandmother-granddaughter relationship…
