by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Dec 8, 2014 | Blog
I guess Nelson Mandela has become one of the icons of my life. Wise without being perfect. I want to follow his example forever. He died on Dec. 5 of last year. I can hardly believe Madiba has been gone a whole year. Here Bill Moyer shares an interview from 1991 with...
by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Dec 7, 2014 | Book Review, Writing
The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman I read this Newbery winner, too, though it wasn’t on my Sabbatical reading list. My bucket list for life includes reading every Newbery winner since 1922 when the award was founded, so this year has moved me well...
by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Dec 6, 2014 | Blog
Ursula LeGuin rocks the National Book Awards. I cannot say anything better than she did, so I will let you watch and listen instead if reiterating it. My favorite statements (or at least two of them): “Any human power can be challenged by Human beings.”...
by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Dec 2, 2014 | Blog
The Covenant All study of South Africa leads any outsider with sensibility to be appalled by the horrific institution of apartheid, which in Afrikaans, means “apartness.” This policy pervaded South African history, but was specifically and violently,...
by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Nov 29, 2014 | Blog
George kept saying that historical fiction is hard to sell. I was getting frustrated with him, but that’s exactly what some of the agents I’ve queried have said, too. In light of sales running the book publishing world, listen to Ursula Le Guin! I feel...
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