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 ]
Ooh, what a fabulous thing to talk about: books, and what I’m reading! I’ve been a reader all my life – it was probably inevitable with a librarian for a mother. I love to read, and I find it [ Read More ]
Once upon a time (as all great stories start), there was a little girl with big dreams. But these dreams were limited by her understanding of the world and the things in it. And so, she went about [ Read More ]
The Three Musketeers hope you had a blessed Christmas!
[ Read More ]My Reading Life… I grew up in East Baltimore (Md.) known for its endless rows of tall, brick houses, all with marble front steps. Immigrants had poured into the city from Europe and the Medit [ Read More ]
By Olivia Rae @oliviaraebooks Although I’m passionate about books today, I was not a reader at a young age. In fact, I was just the opposite. I avoided books. Reading was a struggle; my brain oft [ Read More ]
I first fell in love in the second grade. With a book. The story was a sad story of a little girl who learned her mother had cancer. I don’t recall the title, but the emotions evoked were so vivi [ Read More ]