Dear Bookworms, Recently, I received a recommendation from a well-respected business leader to read the book Monday Morning Leadership. He recommended it as one that had impacted his own perspective significantly and so I took note. For readers, teachers, or just life-long learners, a good book is an invaluable tool, and if this one has…
Dear Bookworms, This year I have decided to take up the Genre Challenge (see January’s article on Three Types of Reading Goals for 2017) and delve into some types of literature I don’t normally read. To begin, I decided to start with one glaring hole on my bookshelves: the graphic novel. Graphic novels have become…
La La Land, written and directed by Damien Chazelle, follows aspiring actress Mia, played by Emma Stone, and jazz purist Sebastian, played by Ryan Gosling, as they navigate the challenges of pursing career success in Los Angeles. What does it take? How do you get there? And, above all, what will it cost? These are…
Dear Bookworms, Happy New Year! It’s an exciting time isn’t it? The start of a new year is always filled with such hope and anticipation for what the next 12 months will bring into our lives. We turn over new leaves, we make resolutions, and we set goals. For avid readers, it is likely that…
The twelfth book of Christmas is The Heroine’s Bookshelf: Life Lessons, from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder by Erin Blakemore. This book is the second heroine-centric book on our 12 Days list, following up Day Three’s account of How to Be a Heroine. If I had my way, I would swap the titles of these two…
Hello Readers, Welcome to Day Three of The 12 Days of Books! On this day, I bring to you the first of two books in our December selection that take us readers on a heroine-centric journey through literature. Every woman who reads has likely assembled her own cast of varied characters who have shaped and…
Dear Bookworms, This summer, I stumbled across a book called The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing The World, One Correction At A Time at a library book sale. As a writer, editor, and general lover of all things English, I was immediately drawn to it. Written by Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson, The Great…
Dear Bookworms, With this sixth installment of the Thursday Next series, Jasper Fforde delves once again into the complexities of the BookWorld – and shakes up all the rules. To begin with, the novel opens immediately upon an account of the BookWorld’s transformation from an interstellar layout to a terrestrial one with free-floating landmasses. Although…
Dear Bookworms, The famous city of Paris holds many allures, but for expat Kristen Beddard, it was missing one key element: kale. Try as she might, after moving to the City of Light with her husband for his work, she was unable to locate this one vegetable that has come to represent home and comfort…
Dear Technology, First off, I want you to know that I love you. I think that you are just incredible, I truly do. But. I think we need to talk about setting some boundaries in our relationship. Now, don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to break up. You know that I couldn’t live without…