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 | 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...
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...
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