by Carol Cross | Jul 2, 2014 | Blog
I never read J.K. Rowling’s first post-Potter book, A Casual Vacancy, but I also haven’t heard very good things from the people I know who did read it. But when the new detective series author Robert Galbraith was revealed to be a nom de plume for...
by Carol Cross | Jul 1, 2014 | Blog
It may be hard to recognize, but the image above is pure literary gold. It is J.K. Rowling’s original hand-drawn spreadsheet for chapters 13-24 of the fifth book in her series, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Starting from the left, Rowling records...
by Carol Cross | Jun 25, 2014 | Blog
Let’s start off with a few warnings about The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp. For social conservatives, this book has it all—all the reasons that such groups give for wanting to ban similar books from school libraries. This is NOT the book for you if you don’t want to...
by Carol Cross | Jun 22, 2014 | Blog
Yesterday, we had the funeral service and celebration of life for my friend Marcia, who died of cancer last month. One thing that I shared at the service was that one of my life lessons I took from Marcia was to retain the quality of being childlike–staying...
by Carol Cross | Jun 20, 2014 | Blog
OK, so I did it backwards. I went to see the movie of The Fault in Our Stars first and only just got around to seeing the movie of Divergent. Then I went back and checked my original review of the book, which I re-posted on this blog a day ago. I needed to check,...
