Kathy Boles-Turner

reading and writing a life

Here’s how to save yourself, your beautiful self.

The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison Once the decision has been made to read a certain book based on whatever criteria or recommendation has inspired the choice, I avoid reading blurbs and forewords until the end. More often than not, it is satisfying to completely consume the story within before reading other readers’ opinions or the […]

Read To Me – Day Twenty-Six

Time, by Louise Glück There was too much, always, then too little. Childhood: sickness. By the side of the bed I had a little bell — at the other end of the bell, my mother. Sickness, gray rain. The dogs slept through it. They slept on the bed, at the end of it, and it […]