I spent two and a half hours at my local library with my daughter the other day, and while she entertained herself playing in the “kitchen” in the children’s section, I needed something to pass my time besides waiting for my crops to harvest in my Smurf’s Village. So I grabbed about ten children’s books [...]
I own lots of books. Of all the things I like to buy for myself, books rank number one on the list, and they’re the one thing of which I can never have enough. I love going to the library and checking out books, but there’s just something about owning a book and knowing I [...]
If you were a girl in the 80s who loved to read and loved dolls, then chances are you probably had an American Girl doll. In 1986 The Pleasant Company released really expensive 18-inch dolls with accompanying books that portrayed ten-year-old girls of a variety of ethnicities living in various times throughout American history. The first [...]
If you’ve read my blog before, you know that I love reading young adult literature. Especially ones of the paranormal romance kind. But sometimes I get to the point where if I have to read about one more vampire, werewolf, witch, faerie, angel, or shapeshifter, I’m gonna go crazy. Like when you’re eating pancakes and [...]
This very question was posed to me today by a co-worker of mine, and while at the time I was surprised that she didn’t know, I also realized that a lot of people probably don’t know that books are still being banned in schools and libraries. Because banning a book in the 21st century seems [...]
Back in the day, book covers were pretty boring. In olden times, sometimes all you saw was title on the book’s spine. In the 50s, you saw very old-timey cover illustrations that just looked kinda weird. And then in the 1980s, lots of young adult books featured pictures of real people on their covers – [...]
I’m sure there are some really good books out there written for adults. I may have even read a couple that weren’t required reading in college. The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon, for example, is really good…mainly because it’s a time-traveling sci-fi Scottish history smutty romance novel. And I also admit to reading a Philippa Gregory [...]
