Happy February, bookworms! (Note: it took me give tries to spell February correctly in this last sentence. That is why someone invented weekends. Clearly, my brain is fried.) One month of 2012 is down and 11 more to go. February is the month of love and Black History, so there’s something for everyone. Also, perhaps [...]
Category Archive — fantasy
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
A few weeks before her ninth birthday, Rose Edelstein makes the startling discovery that she can taste the emotions in her mother’s homemade lemon-chocolate cake. With every bite, Rose is horrified to find out that her’s mother’s outward happiness and good cheer is just a cover for loneliness, sadness and emptiness. Quickly learning to avoid [...]
Word of the Week (44)
If I have learned anything from the numerous books I’ve read in my lifetime, it is this: the answer, to Life, the Universe and Everything is 42. Today is the birthday / anniversary of the publication of Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, one of the greatest and most bizarre books ever to [...]
