While reading an essay by Hillary Mantel, (about the British Royals), I learned of the poet Stevie Smith. I like this quote by her: Read...

2022, BlessingShares Writer and poet Blessing Okoro wrote these poems during the 2020 lockdown, which she describes as a time of ...

Non-Writers of Books Poem anonymous Oh! you who write not as you wish, who daily ignore New Year's promise, who avoid Daruma*'s one-eyed...

1987, East European Monographs/Harvill Secker Bookclub meeting, 21 April 2023 Oh dear, why didn't I take better notes of our bookclub...

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Juneteenth was yesterday, but it's never too late to celebrate freedom. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was effective January 1,...

1860, William Blackwood and Sons This is the story of Maggie and her older brother Tom set in the English countryside, in 1829-1840. They...

1958 Thanks to Tom Lynn, Associate Professor of English at Penn State Berks, for this synopsis. Chinua Achebe, whose novels are read...

Dear friends and readers, thanks for sharing your favorite quotes. I hope you'll enjoy reading them! COMMON SENSE Don't believe anything...

1919, Craig Empire The Craig Empire was a newspaper founded in 1911 in Craig, Colorado. One reader said the poem describes depression,...

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Africa Day 2023 marks the 60th anniversary of African Union. To celebrate, let's honor two Nigerian writers, Chimamanda Adichie and...

La plus précieuse des marchandises 2019, Editions du Seuil This tale is about a baby whose father throws her out of a train window....

Julia and Thomas' wedding photographer, Sandrine Siryani, recently won awards for two photos she took at their wedding. The captions are...

In some better news, compared to recent posts, I am happy to report that the first annual Spring Day in Lille, on April 18, 2023, was a...

I was fortunate to be able to attend, on-line, the beautiful memorial service for Savonnah on Tuesday, May 2, 2023. Amidst the...

My family and I are sad that my cousin's daughter, Savonnah, 23, passed away unexpectedly on April 16, 2023. Savonnah, may you rest in...

15 April 2023 "Why write a book when you can just make one?" I thought to myself Saturday at Bill & Rosa's Book Room Paris, where Yvonne,...

Sonderkommando by Shlomo Venezia 2007, Editions Albin Michel (Inside the Gas Chambers) This memoir by Shlomo Venezia is the only existing...

2022, St Martin's Press Original version, 2018: Sorcières: La Puissance Invaincue des Femmes, Editions La Découverte Diane gave me this...