In Kristin Hannah’s new book, The Four Winds, she writes about a horrific time in America’s history: the Great Depression and the drought-stricken Great Plains described as the Dust Bowl.Many…
This sentence from This Tender Land immediately struck me as a great one, but I’ve struggled with writing about it for weeks. So, on a three-hour car trip with my…
It is every writer's goal, I imagine, to bundle words together in an invitation for readers to think and feel. The bees in my chest stir. These six small words…
This great line, from Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan, stopped me on the page. It’s a laugh out loud way to describe a good marriage and I've had…
It is inexplicably unfair of me to claim to relate to the words of Abi Daré’s character Adunni, in The Girl with the Louding Voice—she is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl…
In Red at the Bone, by Jacqueline Woodson, a theme of mother-daughter relationships flows throughout the book. This great line, “I pressed my hand against my own face, felt the…
In The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson, the principal character is a blue-skinned pack horse librarian in Kentucky who delivers books to residents isolated in the…
This great line made me think about how much our lives have changed this year. “Holding hands” in today’s virus filled world is what we’re not supposed to do, at…
In her book American Dirt, Jeanine Cummins could have written, “looking in her mother’s purse feels personal” and left it at that. I would have known what she meant. Instead,…
This great line from The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman, is one I couldn’t have said better myself. This book has been called a love letter to…