For our September meeting, my book club read The Jell-O Girls by Allile Rowbottom. There weren’t any discussion questions already online so I created my own. I tweaked them after our meeting, to address the points that came up for us. I hope your club […]
A grieving friend recently asked me for tips that would help her focus on reading. She’s one of my fellow book nerd pals, so not finding joy in reading was distressing for her. I realized her question was mostly rhetorical, yet I got to thinking […]
Today’s guest post comes from Licia Morelli, award winning and best selling author of The Lemonade Hurricane: A Story of Mindfulness and Meditation and I Am Darn Tough. Licia’s writing has been featured in Vanity Fair, The Boston Globe, Publisher’s Weekly, The Rumpus, elephant journal, […]
Welcome to Five Things Friday, I hope this finds you safe and healthy. It seems like every week, a new disaster strikes our country. As I’ve mentioned before, it’s a struggle for me to write about all positive things without talking about the negative. Yet, […]
With Banned Books Week coming up in ten days, I thought this is a good time to talk about what it is and how books end up with such a label. Typically held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week 2020 runs September […]
Today’s guest post comes from Allan Hunter, whose memoir GENDERQUEER: A Story From a Different Closet was published by Sunstone Press in March 2020. It’s a coming-of-age coming-out story from the genderqueer vantage point, an identity only recently on the social radar. Allan was one of […]
Welcome to Five Things Friday, I hope this finds you safe and healthy! Here’s what I’ve been up to this week. Something that made me happy this week. Participating in my fantasy football draft. I’m glad sports are back! Something I read this week. This […]
In my last post, I mentioned that Ernest Cline’s followup to Ready Player One, which is aptly titled Ready Player Two, will be published in late November. If you’re anxiously awaiting it, here are a few similar novels you should check out in the mean […]
With every change of season comes a huge list of new books being published. It can be tough to keep up, and even more difficult to know which ones are worth the buzz. To help you navigate all that, here’s my list of books coming […]
Hello and happy Labor Day weekend. I can’t believe it’s September already! Here’s what I’ve been up this this week! Something that made me happy this week. I got a late birthday gift from my friend Lisa. It was supposed to arrive on my actual […]
