The Orange Swan Review

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Wednesday, 6 March 2019

Sometimes David Can't Stop Goliath, and Shouldn't Be Expected To

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Everyone's praising Gayle King for keeping her cool in the face of R. Kelly's abusive lies and rage during her CBS This Morning in...
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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