Category Archives: Tucson Festival of Books/good books

“Great House”

Posted on November 29, 2010 by sheilawill

I didn’t get it. I read “Great House” by Nicole Krauss in a day, hoping the disparate parts would come together in the end but it didn’t happen. At least not for me. So I went to the reviews expounding … Continue reading →

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Books I remember

Posted on October 6, 2010 by sheilawill

The Things They Carried and In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien, Amos & Boris by William Steig, Stranger in a Strange Land, Catch-22, Gift from the Sea, Divided Kingdom by Rupert Thomson, Sailor Dog by Margaret Wise … Continue reading →

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“Freedom”

Posted on October 2, 2010 by sheilawill

I’ve been aware of how often Jonathan Franzen mentions freedom in his highly touted new novel, and how often responsibility kicks in. “Freedom,” the tome I’ve been reading while flying both directions cross-country these past few weeks, is partly about … Continue reading →

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Tucson Festival of Books #1

Posted on September 22, 2010 by sheilawill

Once a teacher — or a bookseller — always one. I’ve been out of the book-selling world and children’s literature loop for 13 years now. If I’ve ever had any real expertise, it was in children’s books. So when the … Continue reading →

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“Divided Kingdom?”

Posted on September 12, 2010 by sheilawill

Once upon a time, I owned a children’s bookstore.  My two children grew up at Oz Books in Southwest Harbor, Maine, which I owned from 1982 to 1997. In a way, it seemed that we grew up together reading children’s … Continue reading →

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