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One novel, two semi-memoirs and a whole lot of reading in bits and pages.
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My daughter does not speak. She does not sign. She cannot point or use picture exchange. But she can read.
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The second inmate choked back tears; it was her first time. Soon, she'd send a recorded book home to her young children.
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The picture books I read and recorded for my daughter from prison turned out to be a lifeline for my whole family—and me.
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A reading list that ranged from "Dietland" to "The Yorkshire Shepherdess."
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Any month includes new work by Shirley Jackson and Laura Ingalls Wilder is a good month.
View ArticleShelf, iPad, Bed Table: Unfinished Reading, October 2015
I'm halfway through more than half a dozen books.
View ArticleHow Do You Tell a Preteen That Sometimes the Monsters Are Real?
How can I tell my own daughter that the monsters she reads about are not real, when I know better than most just how real they are?
View ArticleSaying Yes, and No, Shonda Rhimes Style
Introvert Shonda Rhimes says "yes" for a year. But (maybe more importantly) she also says no.
View ArticlePlease, Read My Book (Unless You’re a Friend of My Sons)
I’m trying to promote the dirty book I just wrote. Please don’t tell anyone.
View ArticleA Day at the Bookstore for All Kids
Taking a preschool class on a field trip into the mostly unknown: a bookstore.
View ArticleA Conversation With ‘The Restaurant Critic’s Wife’
A real restaurant critic's wife writes a novel, "The Restaurant Critic's Wife," with just enough truth in the fiction.
View ArticleThis Book Is Too Old for You
The book that finally lured my 8-year-old into reading for pleasure? "Divergent."
View ArticleLove Spectacle? In ‘Primates of Park Avenue,’ Wife Bonuses Are the Least of It
Why "Primates of Park Avenue" is a book for your beach bag, "wife bonuses" and all.
View ArticleShelf, iPad, Bed Table: Reading, May 2015
One novel, two semi-memoirs and a whole lot of reading in bits and pages.
View ArticleEsme Can Read
My daughter does not speak. She does not sign. She cannot point or use picture exchange. But she can read.
View ArticleHelping Prisoners’ Voices Be Heard By Their Children
The second inmate choked back tears; it was her first time. Soon, she'd send a recorded book home to her young children.
View ArticleReading Aloud to My Daughter, From Prison
The picture books I read and recorded for my daughter from prison turned out to be a lifeline for my whole family—and me.
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