I love Anna Quindlen. I’ve read all of her fiction and followed her Newsweek columns for years. She has an absolute gift for translating the triumphs and heartbreaks of everyday Americans into gentle prose. I was mesmerized by Miller’s Valley, and despite its sad story, it felt like a warm blanket. This is Mimi Miller’s story, as she comes of age in the 60s and 70s in Miller’s Valley, a dying farm community in Pennsylvania. The government, promising progress and recreation, pushes the residents to sell […]
“It is my mercy, and not yours, that matters now.”
During the decade in which the Harry Potter series was published I was a college student, a new nurse, a young bride, a new homeowner, and finally, a mother. What I was NOT was someone committed to thousands of pages of a single series. Obviously, from the tremendous buzz, I knew I was missing out. But in the hours spent in the rocking chair while reading to my new daughter, I made a decision. When she turned 8, we’d start reading it together. I wouldn’t […]