I waited to begin Orphan Island until I knew I could spend the whole day with it, because I suspected once I dove in I wasn’t going to surface until the last page–and I was right. But days later I find myself drifting back to the island and its denizens again and again. Orphan Island is that kind of place and that kind of book. The kid in me was carried away by the wildness and mystery and adventure even as the parent in me ached with the bittersweet and sometimes brutal truths underpinning it all. -Kate Milford, McJ kids’ bookseller and Edgar award-winning author of Greenglass House.
Did you set new reading goals for 2017? So did we! Check out Jewish Book Council’s January 2017 staff picks and see how we’re kicking off a new year of reading!
Now I’ll be the first to admit I don’t go out in public all that often, but ArtWalk San Diego was a trip yesterday for my live painting demo at Adelman Fine Art. I had a couple lovely young ladies that wanted an impromptu adult painting session, a dude that handed me his credit card and told me to sell him something, and someone that propositioned me for something I’m still trying to figure out. All in all, it was a great day!