Hello!It’s time for Writer Wednesday, when I discuss another author and his or her work. Today, we’re stepping into ancient Greece to sit down with Plato. Only, this book isn’t anything like ordinary Plato. Think philosophy plus super heroes! Think clever cartoons generously interspersed throughout the updated lines of the best known philosopher. I have…
Hello!It’s time for Writer Wednesday, when I discuss another author and his or her work. Today, I’d like to share with you a poem by Emily Dickinson. It’s short, only eight lines, but perfectly shows the transporting power of the word, the illustrative properties of a few constructed lines and the magic of literature. A…
Hello! It’s time for Writer Wednesday, when I discuss another author and his or her work. The real Georges Picquart Robert Harris’An Officer and a Spy is a captivating story of the late nineteenth century Dreyfus Affair in France. It’s told in first person through Georges Picquart, an officer deeply connected to the events surrounding…
Hello!It’s time for Writer Wednesday, when I discuss another author and his or her work. Today, I’d like to share William Blake’s poem “To Winter”. To Winter William Blake (from Poetical Sketches, 1783) O winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou built thy dark Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs…
Hello!Today is Writer Wednesday, when I discuss another author and his or her work. Today, we’re discussing Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin. What that means is that today’s Writer Wednesday is commentary on an author by another author and my commentary on that. The first Jane Austen that I read was Pride and…
Hello!It’s time for Writer Wednesday, when I discuss another author and his or her book. Today, I’d like to share with you Robert Frost’s poem, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”. I remember first reading this poem in fourth grade and being charmed by it. Years later, it’s still one of my favorites. Stopping…
Hello!It’s time for Writer Wednesday, when I discuss another author and his or her book. Long before 007, there was George Washington’s Secret Six. These were the men (and one woman!) who helped to uncover the secrets that turned the tide toward the patriots’ favor during the American Revolution. Kilmeade’s and Yaeger’s book, with the…
Hello!It’s time for Writer Wednesday, when I discuss another author and his or her book. Today’s pick is Neil MacGregor’s A History of the World in 100 Objects. I received this book for Christmas this year and very much enjoyed it! Last spring, I read MacGregor’s Shakespeare’s Restless World. It too takes objects and tells…