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 ]
By Emily Wright My journey in historical fiction began in the 3rd grade, when my best friend introduced me to the American Girlseries. For those not familiar with the franchise, American Girl is a [ Read More ]
My “reading” life these days is more accurately described as my “listening” life, though I fully embrace that audiobooks count as reading. I have four kids, and on top of being an author, 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 ]
By Katherine Pasour @KatherinePasour Reading was my escape! After a long day of toil as a young farm girl, my favorite escape from hoeing weeds and milking cows was reading. For a special treat, tw [ Read More ]
By PeggySue Wells When I’m too old to drive, pack my lunch each morning and drop me for the day at the library. Any library. Or bookstore. For longer periods, leave me at the Library of Congress. [ 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 ]