Country Girl: A Memoir by Edna O’Brien December, 2020 In 1960, Edna O’Brien, now a famed Irish writer, wrote her first novel, The Country Girls which scandalized her local County Clare parish in Ireland so greatly that the parish priest publicly burned it. There is no question that O’Brien designed or fell into a lifeContinue reading “Recent Reads”
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Recent Reads
A Beginners Guide to Japan; Observations and Provocations, Autumn Light; Season of Fire and Farewells, and Art of Stillness; Adventures in Going Nowhere, all three by Pico Iyer All three of these recent books by Iyer are short delightful reads by an American travel writer now married to a Japanese woman, where he now focuses hisContinue reading “Recent Reads”
Recent Reads
Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson December 2020 Once I read Brown Girl Dreaming and Another Brooklyn, I was hooked on Woodson’s beautiful writing, even though she often writes for YA readers, even in this case. Meeting her at the Tucson Book Festival was an honor, and I recall telling her (even if IContinue reading “Recent Reads”
Recent Reads
The Best of Me by David Sedaris December, 2020 When asked by a NYTimes book reviewer, why did you choose these essays to include in your anthology, The Best of Me, Sedaris replied, “I chose the ones I liked, actually ones that I had read on tour, where I get the best feedback, watching myContinue reading “Recent Reads”
Introducing, Recent Reads
Happy New Year! When I’m not writing, I’m usually reading. Like many of you, I spent much of 2020, quietly quarantined, close to home. You can still find me curled up in a corner of our home, most afternoons. Fortunately, our Mid-Columbia Library system is vast and does not limit the amount of books oneContinue reading “Introducing, Recent Reads”
An Introduction
A Puget Sounder by birth, Judith Barker Kvinsland, a retired teacher and college administrator in both Washington and California, happily exchanged professional writing for personal essays and occasional prose poems. She now lives and writes in eastern Washington amidst wide open skies, channeled scablands, and burgeoning wineries. She and her husband are “itinerant grandparents,” frequentContinue reading “An Introduction”
Judith Barker Kvinsland 