Call me crazy, but I love winter. That’s when the cold subdues weeds in the yard, a snow storm might require me to stay home with my family, and books wait to be cherished. There’s nothing better than settling in beside a cozy fire beside someone you love for a long reading session. This low-tech … Continue reading Prime Reading Time
I’ll confess to a love affair with pages over pixels. There’s something magical about settling down in a quiet nook where the only devices I’m left to are my own. While other readers remove print copies from their homes, I celebrate the books in mine, as the image above illustrates. Reader News Here’s the … Continue reading Celebrating the Books in my Home
There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry – This traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of toll – How frugal is the chariot That bears the human soul. Emily Dickinson Dickinson’s poem captures everything I love about reading … Continue reading No Frigate Like a Book
No two persons ever read the same book. –Edmund Wilson I love the way readers make novels their own. I notice it most in reviews of my books. Invariably, a reviewer will decide a novel is about something I never intended. It is, for that person. Epic Fantasy I’ve returned copy edits for Sojourner, (Tales of Faeraven 3). I’ll … Continue reading The Beauty of Reading
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft Books have only become more portable with the advent of the digital age, with one slender device holding a library. I’ll confess to being old-fashioned enough to resent that. I still think of books in terms of paper. I don’t think … Continue reading Books as Portable Magic
