by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Oct 7, 2014 | Blog
My friend Gwen Hart has a new poem in The Quotable. Here is a link so you can read it. I think it’s hilarious. It’s sad, too, but so funny. I am amazed at people like Gwen and Richard Meyer who can write GOOD poems in form. It is a craft I much admire! I...
by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Oct 6, 2014 | Blog
I’m tired today. Maybe it’s physical; maybe it’s just emotional. But in the course of this past weekend (Friday through Sunday night), I went to a wedding, a funeral, a baby shower, a 50th birthday party, and did the Minnesota River Valley 50-mile...
by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Sep 30, 2014 | Blog, Book Review
I loved this book. The author, a medical school professor, goes into immense detail about surgical procedures, which is fascinating but sometimes gets a bit long. The story and the characters, the setting in Ethiopia, and the interweaving of characters’ lives is...
by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Sep 30, 2014 | Book Review
I liked this book, but I didn’t love it. I am not sure if that’s because I’ve read so many books about South Africa that this one offered me nothing new under the sun. I think I was hoping for something about the child’s perspective while...
by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Sep 29, 2014 | Book Review
Crispin: The Cross of Lead has been on my reading list since it won the Newbery eleven years ago. I’ve read some other work by AVI, and I admire his writing. This was the perfect book to read back-to-back with Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! In fact, I read this one...
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