Tag: edward bloor

  • Tangerine

    A delightful discovery I made while starting to write this re-review was a blog post I wrote 10 years ago about the books that made a deep impression on me. Tangerine was one of those books. I’m tempted to rattle off things that my home town had in common with Tangerine/Lake Windsor Downs—a citrus growing…

  • The Books That Made My Life

    I was always inclined to be a bookworm. To a degree that surprises me now, when I look back on it, my mother was a full out, cloth diaper-washing, PBS-contributing, sprouts in ham sandwiches hippy mom. But not a dirty, 1960’s vegan commune hippy. A late 1980’s, tribal print, multicultural entertainment, awkward rap in children’s…