Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly event hosted by Should Be Reading. The rules are simple: Grab your current read Open to a random page Share two “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page (as well as the book’s title and author) Be careful not to include spoilers I’ve written before about Sacred Harp singing and why…
Tag: non-fiction
Teaser Tuesdays: Sex
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly event hosted by Should Be Reading. The rules are simple: Grab your current read Open to a random page Share two “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page (as well as the book’s title and author) Be careful not to include spoilers Even though it was a holiday, last weekend…
Review: The Reading Promise
When Alice Ozma was in elementary school, she and her father—a school librarian—made a pact to read aloud together every night. This pact (known as “The Streak”) lasts through illnesses, rehearsals, traffic jams, and dates, and only ends when Alice leaves for college — an insane 3,218 days later. The Reading Promise: My Father and…
Review: Let’s Pretend This Never Happened
When you’re a kid, all you want to do is fit in. Nothing was worse than being embarrassed by a parent or yourself. Your goal was to have friends and avoid the insanity that is adolescence and young adulthood. Enter Jenny Lawson. Between the crippling anxiety disorder and a taxidermist father who says things like,…
Review: Letters of a Woman Homesteader
In 1909 Elinore Pruitt Stewart and her young daughter left Denver, Colorado for the prairies of Wyoming. The land is wild— its inhabitants only marginally less so—and ranching as a single woman in difficult. Letters of a Woman Homesteader includes letters from Elinore to her former employer — a snapshot of three years’ time spent…