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Book Review: City of Thorns
In ‘City of Thorns’ Ben Rawlence, a former researcher for human rights watch, tells the story of the world’s largest refugee camp by focusing on some of the individuals who have, as best they can, made their lives there. The camp in question, Dadaab, began its life in...
Making Time for Writing
We’re all busy, it’s pretty much a fact of life. Our to-do lists expand to fill the available time, and no matter how many jobs we tick off there are always tasks jostling to take their place. I feel like I never have enough time for everything I want to do, and I’ve...
Book Review: The Devouring Gray
Four Paths isn't like other places. When Violet Saunders moves to the small, rural town with her mother, she quickly discovers that there's more to the place than meets the eye; founder families with their otherworldly gifts, the mingled fear and awe of the...
Literary Friendships: Four Favourites From My Bookcase
Let’s hear it for friends! What would we do without them? Friendship, being part of a social group, is one of the great motivating factors in our lives, and yet I feel like friendships often take a second place in stories to romantic relationships. Romance is...
Book Review: A Danger to Herself and Others
Hannah Gold, the only child of high-flying professional parents, has always been intelligent and mature beyond her years. She knows how to take care of herself, and she knows how to get what she wants. Most of the time. Unfortunately, due to a misunderstanding and a...
Interview with Caroline Giammanco, author of “Inside the Death Fences”
Caroline Giammanco—college educated, daughter of a deputy sheriff—seems an unlikely candidate to find herself inside a maximum-security prison. When she got a teaching job at the South Central Correctional Center she assumed she’d need to watch out for the...