Reading

  • Reading

    How to Find the Perfect Book Club for You

    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!

  • a life in fiction

    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…

  • Reading for Fun: It’s OK

    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…

  • my book log

    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.

  • Reading

    The Reading Balance

    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…

  • you read what you are

    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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