Tag: Elizabeth Spencer
Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark
It’s hard to decide what to read next after you finish something as engrossing as this. If you are looking for that type of reading experience, I cannot recommend Fellowship Point enough.
Read MoreThe Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dahlia Harris
Is it better to choose the hard road of being honest and working for change? Or the easier road of going with the flow and fitting in?
Read MoreChasing Tolstoy
I was a young woman who had rejected the traditional college experience that my parents wanted for me.
Read MoreNurturing the Artist Within
It can be as simple as a walk in the woods or an hour with an adult coloring book and your favorite scented markers from childhood.
Read MoreLakewood by Megan Giddings
Whether you pick it up now or in the future, you can find something relatable in the story of Lena Johnson, a Black millennial college student who leaves school to enroll in a mysterious research study.
Read MoreLiving History
I’m past the age of thinking I will want to do something. Now, except for the baby journals, I’ve let go of doing things that sound like a good idea but aren’t for me.
Read MoreThe Art of Dialogue
Dialogue isn’t just about spoken words. What the characters do with their hands and bodies as they speak or while the other person is speaking is just as important as the speech itself.
Read MoreYou Think It, I’ll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld
Sittenfeld’s characters are flawed but sympathetic, and readers who feel similarly misunderstood will delight in the humorously awkward situations the characters get into – and must find their way out of.
Read MoreSing, UnBuried, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward is never didactic in her writing; the events she depicts speak for themselves.
Read MoreHourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage by Dani Shapiro
This is a perfect fall read, as the cooler weather and shorter days invite us to slow down, stay home, and spend more time on reflection.
Read MoreHillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
Elizabeth Spencer reviews “Hillbilly Elegy” by J.D. Vance.
Read MoreThe Wonder by Emma Donoghue
Suspense builds as the reader assumes Lib’s anxiety and growing bafflement. What is going on here? Can Lib stop it and save Anna?
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