Blog | Rebecca Fjelland Davis

Criss Cross

by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Oct 21, 2014 | Blog, Book Review

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

by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Oct 19, 2014 | Blog

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...

Kira-Kira, by by Cynthia Kadohata, another Newbery

by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Oct 11, 2014 | Blog, Book Review

Overview from Barnes and Noble: kira-kira (kee ra kee ra): glittering; shining Glittering. That’s how Katie Takeshima’s sister, Lynn, makes everything seem. The sky is kira-kira because its color is deep but see-through at the same time. The sea is...

Cry, the Beloved Country

by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Oct 10, 2014 | Blog

Cry, The Beloved Country is a book that has been on my to-read list since I first started doing intense research about South Africa a few years ago. I finally listened to the unabridged version on CD and finished it yesterday. Part of my hesitation, I guess, is that...

Parsley Tea and Robin Hood

by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Oct 7, 2014 | Blog

I have a fond memory of drinking parsley tea at ten years of age during a close-down-the school-in-Iowa blizzard. These kinds of memories are what inspired the beginning of the book I’m working on (working title: Who the Frack is Maddie Jackson?). Back on that...

Gwen Hart's poem "Early Introduction to Freud"

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...