Guest Author 8 Minute Read Growing up, I dreamed of being a part of a club where everyone enjoyed reading as much as I did. But I didn’t know how to find a book club to join. And I certainly never dreamed of starting one. Until I realized how easy it might be to start my own. I gathered a few acquaintances, my sister and so we began.
Have you ever been part of a book club? Or wanted to be part of a book club? Then I have some ideas for you on how to start!
Rachelle Rea Cobb 5 Minute Read Someone once asked me if I thought I read too much. Indignant but compassionate, I replied, “I don’t think that’s possible. Do you think you read too little?” We laughed. And I still laugh about that short interaction, though it took place during my teen years when I could (and did!) devour whole books in…
Chantel 4 Minute Read If you have ever tried to convince someone who doesn’t read of all the reasons why they should, this post is for you. Okay, for them and you. But if you love books and haven’t thought about all the pros of being a bookworm, you will definitely want to keep reading. Some of these reasons for why…
Mandy J. Hoffman 5 Minute Read All of us are aware of the dangers of an unbalanced diet. Too many cookies and ice cream and our jeans get too snug. Too many carrots and we might look a little orange around the edges. Not that I know about the “orange around the edges” personally, but I did see a lady whose…
Guest Author 6 Minute Read by Mystie Winckler Have you ever taken one of those online quizzes that will supposedly prove how educated or well-read you are based on how many books on their list you’ve read? Often we want to be able to check off those classic titles simply to be able to say we read them, to have…
Guest Author 5 Minute Read by Kathryn Ritchie Years ago, when my husband and I were engaged, we laughed about naming our first child Theophilus (from Luke 1:3 and Acts 1:1). We figured the weightiness of that name would destine him to great things! That is, if he could remember it and how to pronounce it! Can’t you just picture…
Danielle Carey 17 Minute Read Some things get to be so much a part of one’s identity that it is impossible to trace the thread of memory back to the beginning, back to the initial taste of an entirely new experience. I wish I could remember when books first entered my world, but I cannot. Like the seemingly infinite existence…
Jenni Marie 3 Minute Read Reading had become a chore. As odd as it sounds, that’s what happened. I had spent the majority of my childhood identifying “reading” as my foremost hobby, I had voraciously devoured multiple books a week, and had routinely won the local library’s summer reading program. Somewhere along the way, my default leisure activity switched to…
Guest Author 5 Minute Read I love books. When I start reading I become so absorbed that I may not even hear you calling my name.
It used to be a lot worse. I was a real book addict! I read so much I almost lived in my books and stories.
Jessica Elisabeth 3 Minute Read After finishing my first big-girl book, my mom insisted I form the habit of writing down the title of each book I read. I wasn’t too thrilled. This book-log idea sounded strangely familiar to the practice of writing thank-you notes.
Chantel 4 Minute Read Years have changed a lot of things for this bookworm. The responsibilities and demands of life have shifted my priorities: I don’t read as much as I use to read, and for a while, I read almost nothing at all. In part, many moves that kept books tucked into boxes for months or years at a time were to blame. But that wasn’t the only reason.
I doubt that over-reading in general is something that much of the population today has to worry about. But sometimes I wonder if we take time to find balance in our reading, in what we read, how we read and yes, even how much we read…
Gretchen Louise 2 Minute Read I was at another meeting of homeschool moms. Tonight, the discussion topic was a book that only half of us had read.
I hadn’t read it. And I’ll admit, I was slightly prejudiced against the book and the authors.
But listening to one mom, I thought it sounded like a fabulous book on parenting.
Hearing another, though, I was afraid it might be filled with too many rules and not enough grace.
I laughed as I concluded that you could easily think you were hearing reviews of ten very different books when in a room full of ten homeschool moms who were talking about only one book…
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