Reading Saved Me

The last couple years have been … eventful. Eventful, adjective: 1) full of or rich in events; 2) momentous. He led a short but eventful life. It was an extremely eventful period in American history. I didn’t make that last example up, y’all; Merriam-Webster said a...

My Reading Year 2017

My life is moving by at the speed of page-turns … Kate Atkinson / A God in Ruins / LF Rhys Bowen / Her Royal Spyness / GF James Lee Burke / The Glass Rainbow / GF Thomas Cahill / Heretics and Heroes / NF Beverly Cleary / Ramona Quimby, Age 8 / YF Ta-Nehisi Coates / We...

My Favorite Book v. 2016

Some years my favorite book is never in question. Some years there are so many I truly enjoyed that I have to make a list to narrow it down: Geraldine Brooks / March / LF Louise Erdrich / LaRose / LF Alison Hodgson / The Pug List / MEM Hope Jahren / Lab Girl / MEM...

#WhatImReadingNow : Angels and Ages

There is no greater divide in life than the one between kids for whom the experience of learning to read is a painful or tedious one, whose rewards are remote if real, and those for whom the experiences of reading and writing are addictive, entrancing, overwhelming,...