Book Review of Laura Lee Anderson’s “Song of Summer” Ever since I adopted a deaf cat last fall, I have been trying to learn more about deaf culture. When I saw Song of
Yesterday was the official half-way point of the year—hard to believe it, I know. Two weeks ago I had the semi-unhealthy idea to up my Goodreads reading challenge from 100 to 150 books for
Recently it occurred to me that I own a lot of books. I’m not sure how this escaped my notice for so long. But I had absolutely been telling people, “I don’t
A Little Personal History The first time I officially recognized my illness as a disability was in 2006 when I registered with Student Disability Services at Barnard College, which I attended at
I resent the fact that almost any young adult novel with stylized, first-person teen male POV is automatically judged against John Green. It’s a shallow way of looking at what we should
Many fiction fans get to the final page of a brilliantly immersive novel and immediately experience the crushing, numbing paralysis known as a “Book Hangover.” Dazed and disoriented, convinced that “nothing else
You might not know it from when you first meet me–given that I am bitter, cynical, sarcastic, and hard around the edges–but I am a total romantic at heart. I was overjoyed
Well summer is officially here. My classes are done and major work projects wrapped up. The last few weeks were intense, with finals going straight into wrapping up a major freelance assignment.
Wow, I reached the point where I felt suffocated by the walls of my house the other day. It’s been a nonstop grind going straight from finals into wrapping up a writing