The Orange Swan Review

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Tuesday, 30 January 2018

On the Care and Feeding of Single People

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Lately I came across Aimee Lutkin's excellent essays, "When Can I Say I'll Be Alone Forever" and "I Did Everything Y...
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Monday, 7 August 2017

Pinterest & Me: A Dialogue

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Pinterest: Here are 100 new fall outfit ideas for you! Me: They're all photos of long-legged twentysomething models in oversized top...
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Thursday, 27 April 2017

The Cat Who Taught Buddhism

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When I first read the 1931 Newbery winner The Cat Who Went to Heaven , by Elizabeth Coatsworth, I didn't like it at first, nor even kno...
Sunday, 19 February 2017

Joy Unsparked: Some Thoughts on Marie Kondo's Thoughts on Tidying Up

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Marie Kondo's book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: the Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing , has been on my radar for a...
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Sunday, 14 August 2016

Some False and Broken Notes

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The 1929 Newbery Medal Award Winner, The Trumpeter of Krakow , by Eric P. Kelly , which (as you would expect from the title) is set in Kra...
Sunday, 7 August 2016

Lindy West and Radical Goodness

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I first became aware of Lindy West via Twitter several years back because my friends would often retweet some of her bon mots . I followed ...
Sunday, 31 July 2016

Riding Along with CJ

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The 2016 Newbery Medal Winner, Last Stop on Market Street , written by Matt de la Peña and illustrated by Christian Robinson, is an atypica...
Sunday, 17 July 2016

Virtue Unrewarded

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Since I don't think I need to worrying about spoiling a novel that is nearly 300 years old, let me start off with a synopsis of Samuel ...
Tuesday, 12 July 2016

The Neverending Pigeon Story

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A Good Reads review written by Good Reads member Phil Jern says of Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon , by Dhan Gopal Mukerji, the Newbery Med...
Wednesday, 13 April 2016

Being Hitty

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Years ago when the movie The Red Violin came out, I read a review of it in which the reviewer complained that an inanimate object doesn...
Wednesday, 4 November 2015

Smoky the Cowhorse and Other Fictions

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The inside jacket text of my library copy of the Newbery medalist for 1927, Will James's Smoky the Cowhorse , says that "A cowboy...
Tuesday, 13 October 2015

An Uninvincible Biography

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The Newbery medalist for 1934, Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women , by Cornelia Meigs, hasn't aged well. But ...
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