September 1st is Random Acts of Kindness Day. I must confess to having a certain cynicism about these type of days. Surely every day should be a day of random kindness, just like every day should be Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and Children’s Day. Perhaps I should try to be more randomly kind and hope…
Anti-Ugly and Mindless Dreaming
In a bit of a jam
I always read the list of Fiction new titles that comes out each month. The librarian who creates this list puts enough information to whet the appetite and nicely indicates books that might appeal to all tastes. Jam by Jake Simons was a good example of this and made me curious: A state of the…
25 years later and we still enjoy going on a bear hunt
It seems to be a year for anniversaries of children's books and lucky for me it has included the indisputably cute Alfie and now the perennial read aloud We're Going on a Bear Hunt. This Interview with author Michael Rosen and illustrator Helen Oxenbury gives some lovely insight into how this book evolved and is…
The Circle by Dave Eggers
Every now and then you read a book that you want to tell EVERYONE about and The Circle by Dave Eggers is one such book. Mae has just been employed by The Circle, a social media company that operates out of a sprawling campus with state of the art everything, including on tap entertainment, luxurious…
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