Sunday Money by Maggie Hill Sunday Money is such a well-written book. I rooted for Claire as she navigated teenage struggle and coming of age. New York in the 197o’s is a great back drop, as is the sport of basketball. As a lifelong woman athlete, I love to see these stories being told. I […]
The essay “Learning a New Language: The Lexicon of the Farm” originally appeared on Jeannie’s Substack. Subscribe here for monthly updates! It’s no surprise to learn I love language, but what if I told you I’ve been struggling with new vocabulary? … the lexicon of the farm. I’m back on the farm after an action-packed […]
Solito by Javier Zamora This memoir pulled at my gut. I was extremely impressed by the author’s ability to stay in the mind and voice of his nine-year-old self. If I hadn’t known he would survive his seven week journey from El Salvador to the US in order to grow up and write the memoir, […]
The essay “Sustainability in Publishing and in Life” originally appeared on Jeannie’s Substack. Subscribe here for monthly updates! Sustainability was a primary motivation for our getting into farming, however, the principles have seeped into every aspect of my life, including the way I think about book publishing. Each year about 4 million book titles are […]
James by Percival Everett In this retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Percival Everett gives us enslaved Jim’s point of view. This book epitomizes why retellings of classic literature are necessary – we may know the original was racist in its orientation but to read James is to feel it in your bones. It […]
Day by Michael Cunningham This novel is wonderful for its in-depth character portrayals. Cunningham takes very authentic and simple domestic situations and makes them the subject of this beautifully paced work. A generation of young parents and their inquisitive children, the devotion of a brother and sister, an infatuation between brothers-in-law, all the struggles of […]
Four years ago this month, our nation shut down with the onset of the COVID pandemic. Thinking back on those days still elicits painful memories of confusion, disruption, and terrible loss. We each have unique stories of how COVID impacted our lives. The first half of 2020 irreversibly changed my outlook. I became fixated on […]
This essay was originally published on Women Writers, Women’s Books. Some people assume writing a third novel must be easier than writing the first, which is true to some degree only because one knows what to expect: that they are in for a long, winding, doubt-ridden journey. When I began drafting Daughter of a Promise […]
Greetings from Park City where the world outside my window swirls with snow and the world inside my head swirls with story—from all that I saw at The Sundance Film Festival, as well as daily reading and writing. This includes re-reading Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and Middlemarch by George Elliot with FrizzLit. I highly recommend his book clubs! […]
Little Monsters by Adrienne Brodeur In Little Monsters, as in her memoir Wild Game, I loved Brodeur’s writing, especially the descriptions of Cape Cod. The portrayal of setting was my favorite thing about this book. My second favorite book was Adam’s character. He is bipolar and for most of the novel in a manic state. […]
