In 8th grade, as hormones raged and the nation prepared for its bicentennial, my fellow students and I were given a standardized test to determine what kind of career we would be best-suited for. One of the more clever questions read, “Would you enjoy weighing boxes of cookies eight hours per day?” I cautiously opted for [...]
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April 16, 2010
Magical Realism
Magical realism is one of my favorite reading genres. If you’re not familiar with this style of writing, it is not fantasy, science fiction, or escapist fiction. Rather, magical realist stories typically portray the world in ways beyond the objective – life described richly with delight, passion, and wonder. Nancy Pearl describes magical realism as “a [...]
January 27, 2010
Oh, you lovely book
Do you know the feeling of picking up a book and within just a few pages feeling like the book was written precisely for you? The way the words form, the characters who feel like best friends, the descriptions of how the dinner table was set, and the way she fell in love last year? [...]
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