Eleanor and Park
Buy this book. Here’s how good Rainbow Rowell’s young adult novel Eleanor and Park is: * I read lines aloud to Josh, even though he just read it last week. * I bring it into the bathroom with me...
View ArticleThe things
The last weeks (month? months?) have been ridiculous in these here parts. Work is busy and exciting and fun and frustrating and hard. I have been attending to a lot of deaths lately, which, as you can...
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Anthologies are hard. They’re hard to sell to a publisher, in my very limited experience, and they’re supremely hard to edit. There’s often an unevenness in quality; a hoped for diversity of voices can...
View ArticleA Review of Sorts: Not a Mistake by Amber Belldene
Now that I am a matronly lady, married for over a decade, I think I can finally admit on the internet that I’ve been known to read a romance novel every now and again. And not, like, Christian romance...
View ArticleReviewing Damaged Goods and Virgin Nation
I read Damaged Goods quickly when it came out last winter; when I pitched it as a review, now retired editor Richard Kauffman added on the academic study Virgin Nation. I was grateful for it — the...
View ArticleSnarking at the bookstore about biblical leadership
Came to the Barnes and Noble on my friend Jenn’s recommendation: today is my writing day and I had a free beverage coupon that wasn’t going to redeem itself, but being already sufficiently caffeinated...
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