by Linsey Stevens | Sep 30, 2019 | Editor’s Bookshelf
Last week, my husband and I had to have a big, beautiful ash tree removed from our yard. It was a loss we both felt deeply, partly because we adore the wildlife in our yard and worried that the absence of the ash would mean fewer critters—both ground dwellers and...
by Linsey Stevens | Aug 30, 2019 | Editor’s Bookshelf
After a month off from book reviewing, I’m back and happy to be reviewing a children’s book that feels very at home alongside Iphelia: Awakening the Gift of Feeling. What initially attracted me to Maybe Dying is Like Becoming a Butterfly, which feels well-suited to...
by Linsey Stevens | Jul 31, 2019 | Editor’s Bookshelf
In my May review of Reading Through the Night, I reflected on my decision to review an already published book despite my attachment to this feature’s purpose: chiming in on soon-to-be-published titles. Two months ago, it felt hard to do that. My ego was very caught up...
by Linsey Stevens | Jun 30, 2019 | Editor’s Bookshelf
I started this book after returning from a week in Mexico—a week spent almost entirely outside save sleeping hours. From wandering the native mangroves and dodging sargassum in the ocean to climbing one of the ancient Mayan pyramids at Coba during a light drizzle,...
by Linsey Stevens | May 28, 2019 | Editor’s Bookshelf
Some of us are very attached to our best-laid plans and expectations. Not getting what we want, what we believe we worked for and earned, can be a tremendous blow to the ego. It can leave us feeling, on the one end of the spectrum, miffed and irritated—scrambling for...
