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Table Service
The ritual of eating together is full of symbolism. If an author wants to show what a relationship is like between two of his characters, he only needs to have them eat a meal together. They may sit down in stony silence. One might experience indigestion. They may gaze into each other’s eyes and linger…
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face; The rains fall soft upon your fields, And until we meet again, May God hold you in the palm of His hand. This is a very old and the most traditional of…
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The Awakening of Miss Prim
Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera, 2013, 258 pages The Awakening of Miss Prim is a cozy story about a modern, educated, proud and inflexible woman who answers an ad to be a librarian in the village of San Ireneo. Her employer is educating his nieces and nephews and needs help organizing his extensive library. From time to…
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Author Spotlight: Dervla McTiernan
Born in 1977 in Cork, Ireland Ms McTeirnan grew up in different cities in Ireland including Dublin and Limerick. She studied to be a solicitor (lawyer in our language), and worked in her own practice for 12 years. She is married to Kenny. They have two children, a boy and a girl. Ireland hit a…
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The Language of Flowers
Vanessa Diffenbaugh, 2012, literary fiction, 334 pages Victoria Jones spent an isolated childhood in the foster care system. During an interval of relative calm, she learned the meanings of flowers used during Victorian times to convey romantic expression. She finds them more useful in communicating her fears and mistrust of others. Now she is eighteen,…
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Clutter and a Bedroom Switch
I just finished with a major house reorder. We moved into the girls room. They moved into the office and the office moved to what had been our bedroom. Why would a person do that? The first and foremost reason is because the thermostat is at the wrong place in our house. Seriously, that is…
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