We’re shaking up the order of our reading again this month. “The Burglar’s Christmas” was on the schedule to read this spring, but since it is a Christmas story, I thought it would be enjoyable to read in December. For… Read More ›
If you Google “Chihuly in the library,” you’ll see that there are a variety of Chihuly art installations in libraries. I’ve come across Chihuly pieces here and there, like this one below at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut. About… Read More ›
I’m planning on taking a History of the Book course this summer 🤞 so while tweets like this will always catch my eye, I’m now also thinking about potential research topics. (It’s six months away, but I know you understand… Read More ›
What a fun story! “The Princess Baladina–Her Adventure” is a riff on the classic fairy tale of the good princess. Baladina is a young princess who is full of gumption. She’s also naughty — she loses a gold ball in… Read More ›
Who knew that Willa Cather tried her hand at a fairy tale? This month’s story, “The Princess Baladina—Her Adventure” is a fairy tale that Cather published in 1896 for The Home Monthly. Cather was hired as the first managing editor… Read More ›
Did you have a chance to read “A Night at Greenway Court” this month? If not, well, you didn’t miss much. As txfen commented on the reminder post, “this story seemed bloodless for me…a cast of cardboard characters and a… Read More ›
“A Night at Greenway Court” is our story this month for the Willa Cather Short Story Project. In “A Night at Greenway Court,” Cather returns to Northern Virginia, the land of her birth. This short piece of historical fiction was… Read More ›
Before we jump into this month’s story, I want to let those of you in Connecticut know that the quarterly Willa Cather Book Group will meet again in October.What: Alexander’s Bridge (1912)When: Thursday, October 21, 2021, at 1 pmWhere: The… Read More ›
Reminder! “On the Divide” is our story this month for the Willa Cather Short Story Project. You can read the story at the Willa Cather Archive: https://cather.unl.edu/writings/shortfiction/ss026 Apologies for being a day late with this reminder. The new semester started… Read More ›
Today is the first day of the new semester for me, so here’s my, “What I did on my summer vacation” post. In June, I finally went to visit my mom in Illinois. We hadn’t seen each other since November… Read More ›