I didn’t realize I was a budding naturalist until I started reading books about nature. I’ve always loved nature, have savored walking on Swarthmore College’s arboretum campus in my hometown, have relished
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Wow, what a year of reading! I’m finally bringing you my Best Books of 2019 and my Favorite Books Read in 2019. I kept thinking I was going to finish more 2019
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I’ve had quite a festive day! I spent the morning researching which novels to include in this article, my annual roundup of new Christmas romance books, and then I took a break…
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Even though I’m a book blogger and an author, I am frequently stumped for words that express how much I love books. That’s why I’m so grateful that many of the wisest
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I fell in love with short stories during my MFA program. Writing short fiction requires a love for the tight formula and the big surprise at the end. I especially think short
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I think if I could only read one category of fiction for the rest of my life, it would be mystery and thrillers, which are often combined under the umbrella term “crime
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Fall is definitely my favorite season. I live for the crisp, cool days. I love the gorgeous firebird spectrum of leaf colors. From my office window, I can see them dazzling the
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Who doesn’t love a good mystery short story? Like many, I was hooked into the mystery genre by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories. Each one was a bite-sized package of
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I often tell people that Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Goldfinch (2013) is my favorite bookâand it’s true. The connection I felt when I read The Goldfinch in 2014 radically
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This post is a quick little appreciation of some of the best picture books to come out in the first half of 2019. I’m reading more picture books than ever, thanks to
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