Helena Smrcek I love Christmas. And by that, I mean the Christmas music, the baking and cooking, present wrapping, the whole entire shebang. But one of my favorite things is decorating our Christma [ Read More ]
I Wish You a Bookish Christmas by Penny Frost McGinnis In December, like many of you, I tend to read Christmas books. Since I was a child and heard the stories about St. Nicholas, I’ve been fasci [ Read More ]
Have you ever heard of the Icelandic tradition of Jolabokaflod (the Christmas Book Flood)? This tradition of buying books for Christmas presents began in Iceland during WWII. Supply chains were cut [ Read More ]
My Reading Life – Karen Ferguson
I confessed in my last My Reading Life post that I’m a fickle reader when it comes to fiction and that I was finding it difficult to make it a priority in my reading life. That was back in June a [ Read More ]
My Reading Life – Christina Sinisi
Dear Blue Ridge Reader Connections—thank you for having me! I believe this is the third time I’ve done this blog topic, but that’s okay—I read a lot! I’m on Book 126 for my GoodReads Chal [ Read More ]
My Reading Life – Helena Smrcek
by @HelenaSmrcek Here comes a confession. I grew up hating reading. Ironic as it may sound, coming from an author, I had a good reason for it. Although never formally diagnosed, I had a mild form [ Read More ]
My Reading Life – Maryann Landers
By Maryann Landers My husband and I are traveling north from southern Utah to our home in Alaska in a forty foot bus conversion. This grand adventure will take us through Idaho, Montana and up into [ Read More ]
My Reading Life – Kelly Goshorn
by Kelly Goshorn In my last My Reading Life post, I confessed that my busy schedule precludes me from reading as many books as I’d like and that audiobooks allowed me to fit reading into my day. [ Read More ]
My Reading Life – Sarah Hamaker
Do books make you laugh? Cry? Fear for a heroine’s safety? Yell at the hero to watch out? If you’ve felt any of those or other emotions while reading fiction, you’re not alone. Fiction has th [ Read More ]
My Reading Life – Kathleen D. Bailey
By Kathleen D. Bailey This has been the hardest year of my life. In February we learned that our younger daughter, 43, had inoperable liver cancer. I moved into her apartment and nursed her for her [ Read More ]