About Me

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sensible shoes

What's so funny about peace, love, understanding and sensible shoes?

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I'm a 50ish woman working in a public library in a depressed small town, and I've managed to climb just about to the bottom rung of the middle class ladder. I'll be writing about books, media, politics, music, and anything else that is not embarrassing to the family. I'm trying to uphold the seventies values of feminism, liberalism and pre-postmodern earnestness. I dislike snark and flippancy. I like my sensible shoes and my freak-flag gray hair. I think it's possible, through reason and empathy, to approach truth (as opposed to truthiness). I distrust Web 2.0 and I probably distrust you. But welcome, anyway!

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  • Three Junes
  • Away: A Novel
  • While They Slept: An Inquiry into the Murder of a Family
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Book Review: Away by Amy Bloom

Book Review: Three Junes by Julia Glass

Book Review: While They Slept by Kathryn Harrison

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Recent Comments

Red Pen
Red Pen said:
"These days, the public library culture is mostly about mass-marketing and giving 'em (the presumably stupid public) what they want..."... read more
on Book Review: The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby
Maggie
Maggie said:
[this is good]
If you're looking for a good book about life with dogs, I can recommend Life to the Max: Maxims for... read more
on Book Review: Marley & Me by John Grogan
sensible shoes
sensible shoes said:
Well, don't go by me; this book is very well regarded. It may be that I'm just not a fan... read more
on Book Review: Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
sensible shoes
sensible shoes said:
Really?! I just stumbled on it and I'm glad I did. read more
on Book Review: A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby