Most people who have followed my career from afar, or even given me a second thought, know me as Mrs. King: the wife of, the widow of, the mother of, the leader of. Makes me sounds like the attachments that come with my vacuum cleaner. In one sense, I don't mind that at all. I'm proud to have been a wife, a single parent, and a leader. But I am more than a label. I am also Coretta.
pickGreat collection. Weinstein creates an unsettling dystopian future as the setting for these well-crafted short stories. The perfect intersection of sci-fi and literary.
pickI'm not a big sci-fi or fantasy reader, but this book is just what I needed. It's a well-paced story that's easy to get lost in.
Had no idea The Hobbit had been adapted for a graphic novel. Adding to my Tolkien library.
Received this beautiful book recently. Going to disappear into it for a while this evening. #literarywonderlands
This seems like an appropriate book to check-out from the library on Halloween.
bailedI've been seeing this book everywhere, especially recently with the author's true identity supposedly being revealed. So many people love it, but I couldn't get into it. The first 75 pages pretty much focus on establishing that one of the little girls in the central friendship is, well, brilliant, and mean as a snake. The other girl is fascinated by her and also brilliant. Just not enough to keep me reading.
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Happy pub day to Okey Ndibe (top middle)! He was great at Franklin Park Reading Series last night, along with D. Foy (PATRICIDE), Matt Bell (SCRAPPER), Jan Michalski (THE SUMMER SHE WAS UNDER WATER), Zetta Elliott (A WISH AFTER MIDNIGHT), and Stephen O'Connor (THOMAS JEFFERSON DREAM OF SALL HEMINGS).
I love surprise book-mail, especially when the author is a bad ass lady writing about other bad ass ladies. @GalleryBooks
Front row for Chloe Caldwell and Ashley Ford in conversation about Chloe's newest collection of essays. *swoon*
pickA thoroughly enjoyable read. In less skilled hands, Catherine could have been dismissed as a privileged, spoiled brat. Huntley successfully turns her into that one friend whose vanity and limited world-view occasionally grate on your nerves, but ultimately you want what's best for her.
Even though I'm not liking any of the characters that much, I feel like I could be friends with the narrator--the type you see once a month for brunch and she's fun and easy to talk to except for the snotty comments about money and the debilitating fear of being alone.
Fitting that this arrived from the library today.
Let's see if it's worth the hype.
The decade of thirty had pacified his romantic ideas about wandering. He didn't exactly want to settle either--it was more that he was done with moving around without purpose. Wherever he went, he wanted to go for a reason, not simply for the sake of going.
pickThis book pushed me out of my reading rut. The writing is accessible and the story moves along well. She perfectly renders the arc of two couples who start as coworkers and then become the closest of friends and then something else. The US politics-backdrop of the story is timely but not distracting.
Celebrating buying one of the last copies of Kyle Baker's Nat Turner with a pic at the Litsy booth! #bkloveslitsy #bkbf
When you're wearing basically the same hairstyle as the character on the cover, you have to pick up the book. Them's the rules.
English, strictly speaking, is not my first language by the way. I have not yet discovered what my first language is so for the time being I use English words in order to say things. I expect I will always have to do it that way; regrettably I don't think my first language can be written down at all. I'm not sure it can be made external. I think it has to stay where it is; simmering in the elastic gloom betwixt my flickering organs.
I was not prevailed upon to help with the many preparations under way and this was as well for everyone because a lack of enthusiasm for a project makes me very clear-headed indeed and I would in all likelihood have developed a sense of how it should all come together and would therefore have taken over completely.
I stopped doing what I wasn't really doing and got a job in a bicycle repair shop which turned out to be quite fortuitous because very soon after I began working there I urgently needed a new bike. I had a bike but I needed a new one, a different one, one with gears, one that could go up hills, one that could go up hills and carry shopping, one that felt sturdy and safe at night along roads where there is no light, one that could go up hills.
Took the plunge and bought a Nook GlowLight Plus. Loving the ability to read library ebooks so far.
pickDevoured this book in 2 days. If you like MARLENA, check out WIRE TO WIRE by Scott Sparling (Tin House). Full disclosure: I work for Henry Holt, the publisher.
Awesome copyright page
Is fake love better than real love? Real love is responsibility, compromise, selflessness, being present, and all that shit. Fake love is magic, excitement, false hope, infatuation, and getting high off the potential that another person is going to save you from yourself.
Frankness, that first feature of the aristocratic ethic, becomes secularized with democracy into freedom of speech.
The whole of Greece was strewn with the tombs of heroes, as was Egypt with cat cemeteries.
