One of the books I’d bought at Powell’s last night was Panther by Brecht Evens. It is a gorgeously illustrated work–a piece of fiction, to be sure. A comic? A graphic tale? Anyway, it starts out as a lovely, if sad story about a little girl with an imaginary friend Read more…
The Other Walk: Essays By Sven Birkerts Birkerts’ collection of essays, The Other Walk, is a compendium of acts of contemplation and the digressions of the mind. Just reading it has inspired the last couple of posts here on Roaming Cowgirl, where I have allowed a memory or an associative Read more…
The Object Parade: Essays By Dinah Lenney When Dinah Lenney says, on page 20 of The Object Parade that “Every home should have a piano” I thought, this narrator and I will have little in common. She says this at the end of a short essay about the baby grand Read more…
The Way We Weren’t By Jill Talbot I mentioned this to Jill on Twitter, but one of the most amazing aspects of reading her memoir, The Way We Weren’t, was how much I related to her daughter, Indie. Indie and I have not had particularly similar childhoods; I moved between Read more…
I am not reading as much as I wanted to. I am not writing as much as I wanted to. What am I doing as much as I wanted to? Well, loving, running, cooking good food. I’m doing the best I can while I can. That said, I did finish Read more…
I love reading the writing of people I know. It’s not just because I’m stoked to know what they care most about, there’s the added dimension of camaraderie and a sense of community, like WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER. Someone recently suggested, and not directly mind you, that writing positive Read more…
TL; DR verdict: RECOMMENDED I will admit that it took me forever to read this book for very petty reasons. See also: Reading the winning poem of a contest I lost. However, just as not reading that winning poem would be childish and wrong and a missed opportunity, so was not Read more…