Once again, with her third novel, the fabulous Joshilyn Jackson has not let me down. Jackson, a Southern U.S. writer (and amazingly funny blogger, at Faster than Kudzu), is the perfect balance between a literary and popular writer — her prose is thoughtful and beautifully crafted, but it never gets in the way of the [...]
Before leaving Australia I was given a small (but heavy, for a person who only travels with carry-on) packet of Australian fiction so that I would have the opportunity to learn a little about the literature of the country in which I’d just spent two weeks. One of the books included in the package was [...]
In my endless quest for good Biblical fiction I picked up this novel about a Biblical character I haven’t read a book about before: the Samaritan woman who meets Jesus at the well in John, chapter 4. On the one hand, the author seems to have had her work cut out for her in [...]
In reviewing this book, I’ll resist the temptation to tell you the story of how Nathan made me buy it, and the story of his deep discontent with the book’s title and the sunflower on the cover, and even the completely irrelevant story of how he ran a red light, got a [...]
This book was recommended to me by my friend Christine, who always seems to be me to be an amazingly mindful and “together” parent, so of course I wanted to read it. It applies the same principles you would find in Zen Buddhist meditation practice to parenting. Given my interest in [...]
