As far back as I can remember, my siblings and myself would fall asleep listening to books on tape (and yes, I’m old enough that it was actually audio cassettes). Our favorites were abridged versions of The Chronicles of Narnia, but later on we graduated to G. A. Henty titles on car trips, Focus on the Family radio dramas, and…
If you follow me on social media, you know that I surpassed my official goal of 50 books for the year some time ago. Specifically, I’m now at 73 books, which Goodreads says surpasses my goal by 146%. And I’m doing well enough on my current goal that I feel confident in sharing my real, secret goal: 100 books in…
Now that I’m between writing projects for a little while, I want to start doing the short reviews for the books I read last year — but first I have one post I need to write. It’s very late in coming, but it’s important! I realized when I opened this website last year for the first time in awhile that…
Photo by Jenny Rollo from FreeImages Happy New Year, all! Yes, I neglected my blog sadly last year. I realize I haven’t posted since March. Between having a small baby and having a toddler and struggling with massive depression related to the lockdowns, etc., I didn’t have a lot of energy to write posts. But I have been writing some,…
Why do they call us bookworms? It’s always rather puzzled me. Why not bookbears or bookbirds or bookdogs, for that matter? Just about anything, it seems, would be preferable to being likened to the slimy, squirming insignificance of a slithering worm. The book part, of course, is obvious. There are people who read to gain information, there are people who…
No, not biological evolution, as in Darwinism. That’s a completely different topic that doesn’t fit on this blog at all. I mean the evolution of the development of our skills and talents. I’ve been reading the collected stories of O. Henry lately. I’ve always enjoyed the stories of his that I’ve read, but I found a big, beautiful hardbound collection…
New apartment means new workspace! Well, not really because the apartment we moved to is just the mirror image of our old one, so my workspace is really exactly the same, just on the opposite side of the room. But it still feels fresh and new–all clean and organized–so I thought I’d give y’all a little peek at it! I…
You remember when adult coloring books first exploded a couple years ago? Now you can hardly go anywhere without seeing one. From mandalas to pop-culture themed books to scenes from far-away places, we just can’t seem to get enough of coloring. I myself have a Paris coloring book, a Doctor Who coloring book, and a Scripture coloring book, as well…
We’ve all heard “don’t judge a book by its cover.” We all do it anyway. We can’t help it–the cover is after all the face of the book! If the cover looks boring or unprofessional, we figure it stands to reason that what lies inside is, also. Even if such an assumption can be quite unfair. Well, I committed an…
I remember when I was a kid, I marveled at how little my parents read. Oh they read, probably more than most people, but they didn’t meet my standard of gobbling books whole in the span of a day or two, so I was perplexed. After all, they were grown-ups. They could do anything they wanted! To me, that would…