by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Oct 31, 2014 | Blog
Happy Halloween! Crazy day: 1. It’s Halloween 2. Loft-McKnight application is due today 3. Slider’s Son got rejected from Holiday House, so rethinking what to do…where/how to send 4. I’ve been doing all sorts of research about FRACKING for my...
by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Oct 28, 2014 | Blog
Krog, Antjie. Country of my Skull. 1998. New York: Broadway, 2000. This book has been on my reading list since I began studying South African history. It’s a difficult book to begin because it seems disjointed with random comments about the selection of the...
by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Oct 24, 2014 | Blog, Book Review
I’m a huge Irving fan. I don’t even know how many of his books I’ve read. However, sometimes one of these heavy tomes of his leaves me thinking that an editor is probably afraid to hack up one of John Irving’s manuscripts. I thought this one...
by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Oct 22, 2014 | Blog
Gwen Nell Westerman read at South Central College today–as part of the Sakatah series. She was a gift. Her language, her poetry, her humor, her pathos, all blended together so each poem was a gift: an encapsulated story-image that pulled at our heartstrings. I...
by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Oct 21, 2014 | Book Review
Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos Guess you can see I lifted the image off Amazon, huh? THIS has been the singular biggest surprise of all the Newbery books I’ve read so far on Sabbatical. I LOVE this book! First, the protagonist is immediately likeable, and by...
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