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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
Have you ever read a story and imagined that you could BE a particular character? When I was a kid, I literally wore out a set of Little House on the Prairie books. I read the covers right off of t [ Read More ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
After days filled with hours of creating characters and trying to keep all of them from going rogue on me, (yes, they tend to have minds of their own sometimes), there is nothing that clears my min [ Read More ]
Before writing this post, I browsed through past blogs in this vein. Three years ago, I introduced myself to Blue Ridge Readers. Two years ago, I wrote in detail about growing up in the mountains o [ Read More ]
Every time I pick up a new book to read, I feel like I’m walking a tightrope. Reading sends me balancing on a highwire filled with intrigue, suspense, adventure, romance, and a new heightened exp [ Read More ]