Science has shown that reading helps memory, empathy, and language skills. It opens new worlds in your mind. It allows you to experience things you might never encounter in real life. But reading does more than that. There is a mystical adventure of reading. And here are the quotes to prove it. On Learning to… Continue reading The Mystical Adventure of Reading
Category: Reading
Do You Want to Read More?
First Line Friday is a series of blog articles posted on the first Friday of every month. The first line of a story, we’re told, must hook the reader. Implied is that the reader will not buy the book if the first line isn’t great. These entries are from Amazon, my personal library, or other… Continue reading Do You Want to Read More?
The Flowers of Hiroshima, A Book Review
When I first read this book, I had just turned 14. I have never forgotten the heartbreak. This is a review of The Flowers of Hiroshima by Edita Morris, re-read more than 50 years later. WHAT IT’S ABOUT Told in the first person, this is the story of a Japanese family and their American boarder.… Continue reading The Flowers of Hiroshima, A Book Review
First Lines for August
August is the seventy-fifth anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So I thought it fitting that I feature novels set in or about World War II in the First Lines for August post. Based on these first lines alone, would you buy the book? At dusk they pour from the sky. All the… Continue reading First Lines for August
Library Withdrawal
Are you having library withdrawal? I mean, are you missing going to the library? I haven’t been to the library since the beginning of March. And oh, man, do I miss it. I didn’t always check out books when I went. I’d go to write, to research, and to sit and think. My local library… Continue reading Library Withdrawal