There are 45 days left in the year and I’ve still got more than 10 books to read in order to reach my goal for 2011. I think that’s pretty doable – it’s about a book every three or four days or so, which is generally what I tend to average anyway. But with the [...]
Category Archive — nonfiction
Word of the Week (47)
Happy birthday to The Atlantic magazine! 154 years ago today, in 1857, The Atlantic literary and cultural magazine was founded in Boston, MA. Some of its founders included such notable writers as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Oliver Wendall Holmes. It is a nationally recognized stalwart publication, being one of [...]
Everything I Know About Love…
Romance novels, and the readers who love them, tend to get a bad rap. I can’t tell you the number of times my stepmother would bemoan my choice in novels, telling me I “could do better than a romance novel.” Better than a romance novel? Surely you jest! Sure, not every reader will gravitate towards [...]
