Goodwill & Temptation

Babe in the Woods or the Art of Getting Lost - Julie Hefferman

Civilwarland in Bad Decline - George Saunders

The Curse of Beauty - James Bone

Lambda - David Musgrave

Hit Parade of Tears - Izumi Suzuki

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us - Hanif Abdurraqib

Lightning Rods - Helen Dewitt

Walking Through Clear Water In A Pool Painted Black - Cookie Mueller

Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything - Colette Shade

Wavewalker: Breaking Free - Suzanne Haywood

Penance - Eliza Clark

The New Menopause - Mary Claire Haiver

The Vegetarian - Han King

Rejection - Tony Tulahtimutte

Read with my kid (selected entries):

Arabian Nights - Robert Leeson

The Silk Road: 7000 Miles of History - John Major

History Quest: Early Times & Middle Times

The Ch'i-lin Purse: A Collection of Ancient Chinese Stories - Linda Fang

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village - Laura Amy Schlitz

Favorite Norse Myths - Mary Pope Osbourne

Beowulf: A Hero's Tale Retold - James Rumford

The Book of Japanese Folklore: An Encyclopedia of the Spirits, Monsters & Yokai of Japanese Folklore - Theresa Matsurra

The House of the Scorpion - Nancy Farmer

The Iron Man - Ted Hughes

Marguerite Makes a Book - Bruce Robertson

The Eyes & the Impossible - Dave Eggers

Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall - Lynn Brunelle

Tales from Outer Suburbia - Shaun Tan

How Many Guinea Pigs Can Fit on a Plane? - Laura Overdeck

The Care and Feeding of a Pet Black Hole - Michelle Cuevas

Mrs. Frisby & The Rats of NIMH - Robert C O'Brien

Leonardo's Horse - Jean Fritz

Neo Leo: The Ageless Ideas of Leonardo Da Vinci - Gene Baretta

The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest - Audrey Hartman

Packing for Mars for Kids - Mary Roach

Montezuma & The Fall of the Aztecs - Eric Kimmel

The Sad Night: The Story of an Aztec Victory & a Spanish Loss - Sally Mathews

The Dreamweavers - G.Z. Schmidt

Astrophysicis for Young People in a Hurry - Neil deGrasse Tyson

Cosmic - Frank Boyce

Hatchet - Gary Paulson

Scary Stories for Young Foxes - Christian McKay

No Ordinary Thing - G.Z. Schmidt

Shadow - Marcia Brown

Dogsbody - Diana Wynne Jones

Directed and crafted over the course of 25 years by German filmmaker Heinrich Sabl, the film stands as a deeply personal, formally daring, and analog-driven work that merges handcrafted filmmaking with the weight of post-war memory.

Sabl began production on Memory Hotel in 1999, shaping the story, building sets, and crafting puppets long before the modern wave of digital stop-motion tools existed. Rather than update the film’s look with contemporary technology, Sabl leaned into an analog, imperfect aesthetic, shooting portions of the film on 35mm and embracing the handmade qualities of his puppets and environments.

Artist/designer Luci Jockel is responsible for this really quite extraordinary work of wearable art. Crafted over a period of 9 years it is called “Gold Veil”. This work is meant as a tribute and a memorial to bees and hives lost to extreme weather conditions. The veil is made of over 20,000 of the collected wings of honey bees that had perished. They were sourced from beekeepers who had lost hives. This fragile object was formed by using archival glue to connect the bee wings and create this lace-like veil.

Gold Veil 2023.