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Happy April! This month marks four years since I started recapping the Prydain series on this blog, and in that time, my life has changed a great deal. I started the “Prydain project” to fill my soul with joy as […]
(Or: How to Recap Four Books in Only Two Years) When I started this blog back in 2013, one of my challenges was finding topics to write about on a regular basis. Obviously, blogs are only worthwhile if they’re being […]
Karen Thompson Walker’s The Age of Miracles starts with a very simple premise: what if the rotation of the Earth slowed slightly so that the days and nights gradually became longer and longer? Walker tells the story through the eyes […]
Sorry for the unannounced hiatus, folks – to paraphrase Shakespeare, my heart was in the ground with Adaon, and I had to pause ere it came back to me. That, and I’ve been busy. Last weekend, I went to YALLFest […]
As I take a brief hiatus from my Prydain recaps, reading John Green’s “Paper Towns” seemed like a no-brainer, given my love for “The Fault in Our Stars,” plus the recent media coverage of the movie adaptation that drew me […]
I recently started a new full-time work contract, which hasn’t left me much time for writing – or reading, for that matter. Given (or despite?) my limited amounts of free time, I’ve decided to try something a little different on […]
You know how sometimes you’re online and follow a random link, and end up reading something that speaks to you in a profound way that feels like you were meant to read it? I was just browsing through YA and […]
As those of you familiar with my blog already know, for someone with a master’s degree in English, I’ve read appallingly few of what the world considers important books, or Great Books. There are several reasons for this, but the […]
These are not necessarily my “favorite” books, but 10 that have a special place in my life for various reasons. Presented roughly in the order in which I encountered them: The Outsiders. The book that made me believe I could […]
I suffered a personal loss while reading Marcus Zusak’s “The Book Thief” – my husband and I buried our beloved dog, who passed away last month after a long illness – so I’m sadly familiar with how our minds struggle […]