A house with a dark secret. A creeping sense of foreboding. A story told through documents, footnotes, and scraps of paper. House of Leaves is like nothing I’ve read before. How this story is told is as much a part of the experience as the story itself. In a committed storytelling device, we meet ourContinue reading “family book club: house of leaves”
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family book club: icy sparks
Normally I’m begging for authors not to explicitly spell things out for their readers. We’re smart, and we can tell who is sad without having to read “John is sad.” But in Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio (Kindle version here), I needed some things to be spelled out. It was an easy read, but one thatContinue reading “family book club: icy sparks”
family book club: middlesex
We met a few weekends ago to discuss our #familybookclub pick, Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Kindle version here). We used Google hangouts, and it worked pretty well! It was so fun to see everyone and to get together from our homes all over the country. And it didn’t hurt that my adorable nephews jumped on toContinue reading “family book club: middlesex”
see synonyms at monster (embroidery no. 7)
For #familybookclub this quarter, we read Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. (We’ll plan a video/phone chat soon to discuss!) In Middlesex, our narrator tells the story of a Greek family over three generations and a rogue gene that shows up in the youngest member of the Stephanides family and changes his fate. Our narrator Cal isContinue reading “see synonyms at monster (embroidery no. 7)”
family book club
I’m sure I’ve said this before, but I come from a family of readers (for this, I am #thankful). I’ve never known a moment where reading wasn’t celebrated or encouraged, and believe me when I say I am grateful and know this isn’t the norm for everyone. Now that we are all adults (I’m the youngest),Continue reading “family book club”