Daily Archives: June 26, 2018

A novel with poems for chapters? Yes!

I read Elizabeth Acevedo’s novel The Poet X  in a single evening which does not mean anything at all negative. It means rather that the characters and the plot were compelling, but I was even more interested in the structure … Continue reading

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The flowers of the late June garden

We don’t have many blooming plants in our garden because we get so much shade. But here are a few of them: monarda, daisies, echinacea, lace-cap hydrangea, bulb lilies, anise hyssop and purple poppy mallow. Most of these plants came … Continue reading

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