books
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This week, for our Banned Books Friday report – actually being written on Friday, stop the presses 😉 – I revisited two books on our list that I read when I was much younger – Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and John Knowles’s A Separate Peace. Though they are completely different – and we… Read more
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The past week has been filled with my wonderful husband’s birthday, book club with my favorite ladies, and an overdue day trip to visit our sweet family at the lake. It was such a lovely week – though having a busy one during a flare has left me bone tired I must say. All is… Read more
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As usual, I am running behind and chasing myself and so I am just now getting to International Children’s Book Day, which was on April 2nd. I adore children’s books and have a collection of them that is still growing. In honor of International Children’s Book Day, I decided to share eight of my favorite… Read more
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Our Banned Books Friday report this week is coming late Easter Sunday night, owing to much sickly time as well as some busy time these past few days. However, even if a somewhat fluid concept of “Friday” is required to be a friend of the blog, our banned book report will be done every week… Read more
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Today, March 25th, is designated Tolkien Reading Day – chosen as it is the date of the destruction of the Ring and the Fall of Sauron. (If that is all Greek to you, then you especially must take this day off work, and observe Tolkien Day uninterrupted, with The Lord of the Rings in your… Read more
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Last week, I started my project of reading through our banned book list – including the rereads of classics that I haven’t encountered since my school days – to report on them as I make way through the list. (I’m reporting a bit late today – early Saturday morning – as this infernal flare had… Read more
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As has been discussed here many times before, I will be a devotee of Joan Didion always. Her work speaks to me in a way that only she can, whether it is being transported to the Haight – years before I was born – to better understand San Francisco counterculture in 1967, or – more… Read more
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In keeping with the theme of this week, another major issue arose last night in Prattville, Alabama – just outside our state capitol city of Montgomery – with a library board that has absolutely run amok, not only attempting to ban books but also firing the library director that dared defy them as well as… Read more
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I am now reading several books on the writer’s craft, working my way through the best ones I can find, for an article I’m writing – and it is proving to be a fantastic project for me. While I won’t really be including those books in book reports – as most of you aren’t terribly… Read more
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On Thursday, an article was posted on al.com that related to the ongoing debate in my home state, Alabama, around groups that are trying – often successfully – to remove books they find morally objectionable from public libraries – essentially creating their own banned books list – versus everyone who believes that these groups don’t… Read more
