Author Interview with Shauna Niequist – Writer of Cold Tangerines – Win A Copy

A coworker and dear friend passed Cold Tangerines on to me a couple of months ago.  When I finished reading, I realized the book wasn’t just a one-time thing.  I picked up my own copy because I knew I would read it again when I needed some extra inspiration in life.  Sure enough, I have picked [...]

Stephenie Meyer Directs a Video

When the band Jack’s Mannequin heard that Stephenie Meyer (author of the Twilight saga) was a fan, they asked her to direct the video for their song The Resolution.  Click Here to watch it.
I don’t really like the song (that kind of music isn’t for me), but I actually think the video is really interesting [...]

Book Review Blog Carnival

There’s a brand new carnival in town!  Yes, it’s the Book Review Blog Carnival.  Check out the first one here.  Or click here to submit your own review for next time.  It looks like fun, and I know I’ll be participating!

Banned Books Week

It’s that time of year again, and I wanted to take a moment to recognize controversial authors and how important their work is to our society.  Let’s all remember that new ideas are important, and should be discussed, not thrown away because they are scary.  Also, please remember to look at what your children are [...]

The Sunday Salon: My Week in Words

We’ve had a great weekend, and it was much-needed.  The past two weeks of home life have featured lack of sleep and toddler phases, so it was great to be able to just hang out as a family without all of the other things that sometimes go along with that.  The Bug got some new [...]

Booking through Thursday… on Saturday

This week’s question asked what the most unusal book we’ve read was.  I’ve read a lot of books that are outside my comfort zone, but the most memorable one was Leonora Carrington’s The Hearing Trumpet.  Carrington is a surrealist painter who utilized her ideas about art to portray a similar effect in her writing.  It’s [...]

The Wise Woman by Philippa Gregory

Philippa Gregory has been one of my favorite authors for years. That’s why I was excited to find a book by her that I hadn’t read yet just sitting on a bookshelf waiting for me to come along and buy it.  Only a few chapters in, I remarked to Matt that I thought I had [...]

Notes on Parenting & Book Club

Last night I went to a small book club that I participate in.  It’s got three members, and life often gets in the way of our meeting, so we choose a book and we don’t discuss as regularly as we could.  Last night we met for the first time since, I think, July.  We discussed [...]

Catching Up with Weekly Geeks & A Little Sunday Salon on Monday

Thank goodness for Dewey!  The Weekly Geeks challenge this week is to get caught up on something with the site.  I have to admit that I’ve been thinking a lot about things to write, but haven’t actually written them. You know that saying, “If you want to be a writer… then write”?  Yeah, I need [...]

Booking Through Thursday: Autumn Reads

Autumn is starting (here in the US, anyway), and kids are heading back to school–does the changing season change your reading habits? Less time? More? Are you just in the mood for different kinds of books than you were over the summer?
Matt and I were talking about how it doesn’t really matter what you do to [...]

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