One of these things is not like the other.
All of them fascinating and brilliant in their own way, one kept creeping back into my thoughts long after finishing, meaning it merited a review…
(more…)Author: Jackie Pick
Jackie Pick is a former teacher and current writer living in the Chicago area. She is a contributing author to multiple anthologies, including Multiples Illuminated, So Glad They Told Me: Women Get Real about Motherhood, Here in the Middle, as well as the and the literary magazines The Sun and Selfish. She received Honorable Mention from the Mark Twain House and Museum for her entry in the Royal Nonesuch Humor Writing Competition. Jackie is a contributing writer at Humor Outcasts, and her essays have been featured on various online sites including McSweeney's, Belladonna Comedy, Mamalode, The HerStories Project, and Scary Mommy. A graduate of the University of Chicago and Northwestern University, Jackie is co-creator and co-writer of the award-winning short film Fixed Up, and a proud member of the 2017 Chicago cast of Listen To Your Mother.
July 2023 Reads
Completing the Author-to-Reader Circuit
July was a banner month for reading, as you’ll note from the graphic. As you’ll also note from the graphic, I am quite the design expert.
One of my 2023 resolutions (bwahaha, remember those?) was to write more reviews of books. The rule I set for myself was to write a review for any book that I was still thinking about many hours after turning the last page.
Reviews require a different sort of engagement with a book. It’s academic and emotional. It is a way of helping complete the circuit of author-to-reader.
Punky Tweenerhood
Last weekend I took my 11-year-old daughter clothes shopping, hoping we’d get a jump on back-to-school prep. (Back-to-school season now starts somewhere in June, if everything I see is any indication.) Our mission took us through multiple stores, like hapless Goldilockses in search of the elusive Just Right.
It was no walk in the park.
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Jackie Pick 