The love of story leads us all to devote time from our busy schedules to visit a new world, a new time, a new way of life. Because time is precious, it makes sense to maximize our reading experienc [ Read More ]
If you’re like me, your TBR pile is constantly growing. Mine is to the point where I’m not sure if I will ever read all the books on my Kindle. And just about every day I see another book I wan [ Read More ]
Reading has always been an important part of my life. Some of my earliest memories are of my dad reading nursery rhymes from The Tall Book of Mother Goose. One night, Daddy said, “Tonight, you re [ Read More ]
When others our age are going on cruises, my friend, Mary Coons and her husband, purchased three turn-of-the-century homes in a neglected neighborhood and transformed them into charming Air B&B [ Read More ]
Reading Habits from Wee Girl to Mature Girl I’ve read from the time I learned the alphabet and strung letters together to form words. “Daddy, what does S T O P spell?” Then came sentences. An [ Read More ]
By Dana R. Lynn @DanaRLynn I once thought that as my children grew older, some of the business of my life would settle down and I would be able to spend more time reading. Don’t get me wrong, I s [ Read More ]
For Such a Time as This I love a good contemporary romance story. I don’t care if it’s a trope I’ve read a hundred times before, if the characters grab my attention and the plot is solid, I [ Read More ]
Tried-And-True Tropes If I listed my favorite books you might say I’m an eclectic reader. I thought so too until I scrutinized the storylines. I discovered that I gravitate toward tropes. What’ [ Read More ]
By Kathleen Bailey @Piechick1 I can trace my desire to be a writer to the time I became a reader. I made up stories about my dolls and my friends, and wrote them in a 25-cent notebook. My first inf [ Read More ]
I’ll often pull a stack of books out of my bookshelf and plan to read them throughout the following month. (Two months? Three?) Right now, I have two books on the floor by my bed, partially read. [ Read More ]