Trip of the Tongue: Cross-Country Travels in Search of America’s Language by Elizabeth Little
Petty Theft by Pascal Girard — I read this one this week since it’s a short graphic novel.
Dirty Wings by Sarah McCarry — I read this months ago but needed my own copy to sit beside the first book.
The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor by Flannery O’Connor
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez
My husband’s started in on the Bonnett and Little titles, since he’s a non-fiction reader, and he’s said positive things about both so far. I’m hoping this week to make a dent in a couple more of these.
Here’s what I read this week:
- This giant, thoughtful list of LGBTQ books from Book Riot is such an incredible resource.
- I loved this piece that Sarah McCarry wrote about her inspirations behind writing the sorts of books she does.
- The anatomy of a cover design — this one for Leslie Jamison’s The Empathy Exams — is really neat.
- Jennie Rothschild shared her methods of organization via the bullet journal.
- How about an interview at the Library of Congress with Amanda Brennan, the meme librarian who now works for Tumblr? It’s really interesting and offers a lot of food for thought about what a librarian is, what a librarian looks like, and where a librarian’s skills can be put to work.
- A lot more details about Kid Lit Con went up this week. Here’s a piece about the con over at the Nerdy Book Club, written by Jen Robinson. They’re still accepting presentation proposals and registration is now open.