Although it took me several months to finish reading this book, that is not because it was boring.  Rather, other books kept shoving their w...

I wrote this the year after I graduated from college and got married.  My husband was a year behind me, so while he did his senior year of c...

You remember that I posted last month about my blogging friend Jamie opening a new literature-oriented shop?   The Books and Beverages Shop...

Last month at the book store, I went looking for a book to give our oldest niece, who will turn 13 this summer.  She likes to write, and...

The ever-inspirational Kara posted about this  here , and I thought the idea was too fun to pass up.  Stacks of books with titles forming a ...

I fell in love with Kenneth Koch's poetry during my sophomore year of college.  A few years later, my parents gave me this book for Ch...

This is a quirky, fun, inspiring little book.  I'm going to try to remember to read it whenever my muses are absent, my creative well ...

It's hard to describe why this book has impacted me so strongly. I really feel like I need to read it again -- or for a first time, t...