“I was afraid of the sea when I was a girl. Someone said it went on forever and that frightened me. I wondered why my parents had chosen to live at the beginning and the end of the world.” In contrast to Broken Verses, with its flowery, poetic prose, The Illusion of Separateness by Simon Van…
Month: March 2017
(story)time: Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsie
Last week the blog was silent because we took off on a family road trip over spring break. I posted some photos on IG, but I’ll do a trip post soon, probably this weekend. In the meantime, I got some more reading done, so I thought I’d do some quick posts here. Broken Verses by…
(story)time: The Mothers by Brit Bennett
A few people have recommended The Mothers by Brit Bennett to me recently, and after I wrote about The Turner House, and Kendra mentioned it again, I quickly put it on my library reserve list. I read it within a week, which is a record pace for me at this particular point in my life. I…