The first day of Summer 2011 is June 21, so I figure I should post my thoughts on last year’s summer reading list before I get going on this year’s. “I’m Down” by Mishna Wolff.  According to the Publisher’s Weekly review on Amazon: Wolff details her childhood growing up in an all-black Seattle neighborhood with a white father who wanted to be black in this … Continue reading Reader Roundup (2010 edition, file this under “better late than never”)

Not so long ago I wrote a post about why I’ll never give up actual, physical books. Today, my Kindle arrived. It’s lovely, truly. It’s everything everyone says it is : Easy to read, even in bright sunlight! Genuinely easy to use! Immediate access to all the books ever written, plus dictionaries for looking up words you don’t know and would otherwise probably just ignore … Continue reading Update, in which I am seduced by abundance and an apple green cover

Summer arrives this year on June 21, and with it comes my annual juicy-as-a-peach Solstice Book List. Here’s what you’ll catch me reading on the subway during the next couple of months: “I’m Down” by Mishna Wolff.  According to the Publisher’s Weekly review on Amazon: Wolff details her childhood growing up in an all-black Seattle neighborhood with a white father who wanted to be black … Continue reading Summertime, and the reading is easy