Started strong, but went out with a whimper. Elegiac, romantic (decidedly not in the Harlequin […]
Author: jstielstra
Born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, I currently live an old farmhouse on 7 acres of Kansas prairie well-stocked with birds. Our house is filled with two dogs, six cats, and books without number. And dust bunnies.
J. Donald and Bertha Coffin Memorial Award for Opulence, Kansas
I am delighted to announce that the Kansas Authors Club has bestowed its 2022 J. […]
Mourning Hilary Mantel
My husband woke me up at 6 AM to tell me that Hilary Mantel is dead. She […]
Scratched – giveaway!
For all you LibraryThing readers-n-reviewers (and for all you Goodreads readers-n-reviewers who should be on […]
Available now – new youth novel!
The color, the power, the excitement, and the beauty of horse-racing happens between the starting […]
Every Good Boy Does Fine – Jeremy Denk
Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons by Jeremy Denk My […]
Art is a Tyrant – Catherine Hewitt
Art is a Tyrant: The Unconventional Life of Rosa Bonheur by Catherine Hewitt My rating: […]
Thanks to Anton and Semezdin…
In Semezdin Mehmedinovic’s beautiful and poignant book My Heart (see my full review here), he […]
In Love – by Amy Bloom
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom My rating: 4 of […]
Essays Two – Lydia Davis
Essays Two: On Proust, Translation, Foreign Languages, and the City of Arles by Lydia Davis […]