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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
Leigh Ann Thomas When I was growing up, my mom had a sacred, non-negotiable house rule that gave me a life-long love of reading. The rule? No idle hands allowed. If your hands are empty, they will [ Read More ]
By Tabitha Bouldin @tabithabouldin I’m pretty sure I won the reading lottery as a kid. You see, my sister is two years older than me, and one of the things she loved was coming home from school e [ Read More ]
By Christina Sinisi I grew up in the mountains of Virginia to two relatively uneducated parents—my father was the first in his family to receive a high school diploma and my mother struggled to g [ Read More ]
Books and I have had a long, loving relationship. On my third birthday, I received a book called Beth’s Happy Day. I still have that book by the way—I read it on my birthday and enjoy the n [ Read More ]
This blog seemed like a good idea, but now it feels like I’m confessing to being weird. Because truthfully, I read a ridiculous amount and variety. I read when I get up, I build in different pock [ Read More ]