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…
Last September, I visited Paris for the first time. Although I did not create a strict itinerary, I had a (long) list of things I wanted to see and do and made an attempt to map out a plan for the week I was there. One of the “must visit” places on my list was…
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 tenth book of Christmas is The Bookshop Book by Jen Campbell. “Every bookshop has a story. We’re talking about bookshops in barns, disused factories, converted churches and underground car parks. Bookshops on boats, on buses and in old run-down railway stations. From the oldest bookshop in the world, to the smallest you could imagine, The Bookshop…
The ninth book of Christmas is Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard by Laura Bates, an English professor at Indiana State University. “Shakespeare professor and prison volunteer Laura Bates thought she had seen it all. That is, until she decided to teach Shakespeare in a place the bard had never been…
“To discover a new writer you love is like discovering a whole new country.” – p. 4 The seventh book of Christmas is Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books by Wendy Lesser. From the start, Lesser told the reader that the book they were about to read might be inconclusive. She spends…
“It’s a kind of alchemy, really, the way dark lines on which paper – or before paper, engraved in stone, and after paper, crystallized on a screen – cause images and ideas to appear like magic in our minds.” – p. 65 The second Book of Christmas is Booked by Karen Swallow Prior, a professor…
“I can hardly conceive how limited my perception would be without the books I have been privileged to read, how superficial my understanding of others, how undeveloped my sympathies.” – p. 164 Hello Readers! Welcome to The 12 Days of Books – 12 Days highlighting our literary favorites, an annual tradition here at The…
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…