I admit it. I’m a book snob. Well, I should say a recovering book snob. There was a time in my youth when I turned my nose up at anything written less than fifty years ago. I would speed through the book store to ‘Classic Literature’ as if the new releases and genre fiction were contagious. … Read More Confessions of a Book Snob
My introduction to the legendary Robin Hood was the 1970’s era Disney film. Oh how I loved that fox. Looking back, he was a quintessential Robin Hood. Honorable, yet a rogue. Jovial, yet aggrieved by injustice. It was the perfect combination of traits to make a little girl want to search the woods for a… Read More The Last Arrow
“I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things,” says Peter Pan in J.M. Barrie’s beloved novel, Peter Pan. This quote makes me think of the college literature courses I was so excited to take but with which I quickly became disenchanted. At the time, literary analysis seemed like a sterile autopsy of… Read More Second to the Right, and Straight on Till Morning