Country of My Skull
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 Truth and...
Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
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 could do with some...
Reflecting
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 felt...
Dead End in Norvelt
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 the...
Criss Cross
This book may not appeal to everyone. The first chapter made me wonder how on earth it won the Newbery. Second chapter, more of the same. By the third chapter, I was mezmerized. Reading this book was like being immersed in a beautiful flowing stream of...
Fiela's Child
Fiela's Child by Dalene Mathee moved me as only a few books do. I've enclosed the snyopsis from Dalene Matthee's website (though the author passed away in 2005) because once I'd read this, I knew I couldn't summarize it better. It's a book that I was thinking about...
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