Anna Staniszewski

As I was reading Rebecca Stead’s When You Reach Me this weekend, I was enjoying the story but also marveling at the way that details were used throughout the book. Not only were the details interesting in themselves and showed a lot about the characters, but nearly all of them wound up being important in [...]

It seems this is going to be a recurring feature on my blog: “Some (Nouns) are too Weird to Make Up.” The random guy who approached me at Quincy Market yesterday certainly fit into the odd people category. He was wearing a Larry Bird jersey tucked into some cut-off denim shorts. This was the conversation: [...]