DRYSALTER – POEM BY POEM The Poem — Hymn to the Faces. Hymn to the Faces A wall of photographs from nowhere, overnight gallery
Can the Bookish Life be enough for Nina Hill? Happy New Year, dear readers, and what better way to start the new year than to
KNOWN AND STRANGE THINGS If a picture is worth a thousand words, then my two photos of Teju Cole‘s collection of essays, Known and Strange
GOLDEN SLIPPERS: An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers Poem: Youth Poet: Langston Hughes (1901 – 1967) Editor: Arna Bontemps Publisher: Harper & Row
A NEW CATEGORY – POEM BY POEM More than a year ago, I published a This ‘n That piece about a new category called The
MORNING IN THE BURNED HOUSE The Poem: February by Margaret Atwood Winter and time to eat fat and watch hockey. In the pewter mornings, the cat,
THE PRINCE OF FROGTOWN The Prince of Frogtown is Pulitzer Prize-winning Rick Bragg’s third memoir. The first, All Over But the Shoutin‘, was written in praise
The Last Secret Secrets. Be honest, don’t we have a few things that, for whatever reason, we’ve never told another person? Well, Nora Trimble Hammond,
HOLIDAY SHOPPING MESSAGE – 2020 First of all, my holiday shopping message is to thank all of you readers who have visited Bookin’ with Sunny
PAX What? Another kids’ book? Well, yes, and no. Two things compel me to pick Sara Pennypacker’s Pax for my next review. First of all,
THE WEDNESDAY SISTERS – Meg Waite Clayton’s novel of a group of young women on the cusp of adulthood. The novel is filled with wisdom
PUSS IN BOOKS, SANS BOOTS Charles Perrault‘s Master Cat has nothing on Bookin’ with Sunny’s California Callie. Our Callie traded her boots for books
WILL YOU BE MY FRIEND Back in 1994, Irish writer Sam McBratney, and British illustrator Anita Jeram, published the picture book, Guess How Much I
BAD TOURIST, MISADVENTURES IN LOVE AND TRAVEL I received an Advance Uncorrected Proof of Suzanne Robert’s Bad Tourist back in mid-July. I picked it up briefly toward
TAHOE HIT, AN OWEN MCKENNA MYSTERY Ever since the Covid-19 pandemic, time seems to move at a pace determined to mess with our internal calendars.
A BANQUET FOR HUNGRY GHOSTS – REVISITED I am a huge fan of Ying Chang Compestine, which makes me happy to publish an updated review of
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