In Semezdin Mehmedinovic’s beautiful and poignant book My Heart (see my full review here), he […]
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.
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 […]
The Hawk’s Way – Sy Montgomery
Similar to her previous The Hummingbird’s Gift, Montgomery has repackaged a chapter from her 2010 collection Birdology into […]
Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient – Theresa Brown, RN
Theresa Brown, who proudly carries her RN degree up front, is a rare and precious […]
Holbein: Capturing Character
Woollett, Anne B., ed. Holbein: capturing character. Los Angeles, CA : J. Paul Getty Museum, […]
Selected Stories – Sylvia Townsend Warner
Selected Stories by Sylvia Townsend Warner My rating: 5 of 5 stars Even though I […]
Novels in Three Lines – Felix Feneon
Novels in Three Lines by Félix Fénéon My rating: 4 of 5 stars Marvelous, weird, […]
Van Gogh and the Artists He Loved – Steven Naifeh
Van Gogh and the Artists He Loved by Steven Naifeh My rating: 5 of 5 […]