poetry – Around the World in 80 Books

March 30, 2015March 30, 2015

The Backlist: Brown Girl Dreaming, by Jacqueline Woodson

5 out of 5 stars ★★★★★ Synopsis: A novel in verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow … Continue reading The Backlist: Brown Girl Dreaming, by Jacqueline Woodson

February 3, 2015February 3, 2015

REVIEW: Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman

I never considered myself a short story reader in the past, but I’ve been warming up to the idea in this new year. I started on the George R.R. Martin edited anthology, Songs of Love and Death, which features a short story by Neil Gaiman called “The Thing About Cassandra.” In the story, a man makes up … Continue reading REVIEW: Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman