It’s not that Chai Ling was ever a normal girl, but her childhood was unexceptional for its time and place—the daughter of two army doctors, growing up in China and learning early on to care for her siblings while her parents were away. She was always motivated and highly intelligent, and she won awards and…
Author Archives: Elizabeth
Little Princes
When Conor Grennan decided to start a year-long trip round the world with a 3 month stint at an orphanage in Nepal, he openly admits it was a good way to meet women. His main motive was adventure. When he arrived in Nepal and noticed the soldiers with guns, he was shocked. Shouldn’t the brochure…
You Are My Cupcake & We Belong Together
Just in time for Valentine’s Day come two new board books from Joyce Wan for the littlest sweetheart in your life. Both books are perfect for snuggling before naptime and lots of cuddles and squeezes. We Belong Together celebrates those perfect matches we find in the world around us, from peanut butter and jelly to…
Dystopian Romance: Matched & Restoring Harmony (with Giveaway)
My daughter, Ilsa, who’s 14, loves dystopian fiction, and is not averse to a little romance mixed in. As someone who grew up in the 70s and 80s worrying about communist invasions and gulags (I had a very vivid imagination), this mystifies me—at her age, I hated the thought of creepy Societies watching my every…
The Street Sweeper
The Street Sweeper reminds me, organizationally, of looking at the back of a piece of embroidery. There are plots and story-lines running everywhere, and at first it feels chaotic. However, by the end, you are looking in awe at a beautifully-finished piece of story-telling. This is an awesome book, well worth the time commitment required…
Sharing ‘A Wrinkle in Time’; 50th Anniversary Edition
It was a dark and stormy night. I was 12, recently moved 1200 miles from home, lonely, having a hard time making friends at my new junior high school. I was sick a lot that year and my mother, knowing what a hard time I was having, was patient with me, letting me stay home…
The Moment
Is there one moment that has come to define your life—a moment that changed your perspective, or your direction, or when you made a choice that has ever after changed who you are? I believe that all of us could come up with at least one example, if not more. I could write about the…
The Starlite Drive-in, a 5-Star Read
The discovery of human remains at the old Starlite Drive-In theatre brings up in razor-sharp detail the events of the summer of 1956 for Callie Anne Benton. The drive-in bounded her world and that of her parents—her father managed the place, out in the country several miles from the nearest town, and her mother, suffering…
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