By Edie Melson @EdieMelson I’ve been a voracious reader for as long as I can remember. I came by the trait honestly. I grew up in a house that was covered up in full bookshelves and stacks of boo [ Read More ]
by Heather Kreke @HKreke I don’t know about you, but I find myself re-reading the same books over and over again. When I pick up Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, Narnia, and a few others [ Read More ]
I found out I was pregnant with my first child the week before September 11, 2001. As I watched the towers fall and felt the pain shared by all Americans that day, I lamented and feared the broken [ Read More ]
The alert flashed across my phone: Emergency: Armed, dangerous person on or near campus. Go inside now; avoid windows. Hands shaking, I texted my son, a freshman at UNC as of two weeks ago. Relief [ Read More ]
by DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Some writers refuse to open a book when they are in the throes of creating a novel. Not me! I want to read everything I can get my hands on, but I do have a pattern, or r [ Read More ]
Everything seems bigger in Alaska and a regular road trip can mean several hours of travel from one small town to a city. Listening to books has proved an excellent source of entertainment as we wi [ Read More ]
During elementary school, all I thought about was playing with my dolls, riding my bike, and watching Shirley Temple movies. I remember reading the Dick and Jane books in reading circles in the sec [ Read More ]
by Jennifer Chastain The last time I shared about my reading life, I traveled way back to some childhood memories of growing up in a small town and visiting our library on a weekly basis. Those wer [ Read More ]
Where is the Line? I am going to start off by saying that I have written a “My Reading Life” post before outlining how I got here as a Christian fiction writer—starting with my childhood. Tha [ Read More ]
by RE Russell I used to believe that to give a book its proper attention, I needed to devote hours at a time and try to finish it within a couple of days. It was like a “beat the clock” race [ Read More ]