Category Archives: 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”

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”