On Monday, members of the MMD Book Club and WSIRN Patreon community got together for a live video session where I shared upcoming winter titles I already love, and those ... Read more
The 2020 Reading Challenge is here! Today I’m sharing the books I’m thinking of reading for the challenge in 2020. In most categories, I share three titles I’m considering reading. I ... Read more
2019 was another great year for me. I read piles of stellar books, and today I’m sharing my tip-top favorites. I read a lot of books—just over 200 in 2019—so ... Read more
Readers, there’s nothing like a good long book list for the holidays, am I right? This year I received numerous requests for holiday fiction recommendations for adults, ranging from “please ... Read more
There’s no pleasure like wading into a new genre to find an unexpected favorite—and right now I have one of my new favorite genres on the brain. When I picked ... Read more
Families are complicated. This isn’t just a plainly true statement—it’s also my favorite literary sub-genre. For the last few years, I’ve even included a “families are complicated” category in my ... Read more
Five years ago, I completed my first NaNoWriMo, short for National Novel Writing Month, where participants write a 50,000 word novel in November. On a whim in 2014, shortly before ... Read more
As far as I know, the British don’t have a term like the Danish hygge to describe the concept of coziness, but there’s something about dreary London Town or the ... Read more
A few weeks ago, I shared some highly anticipated fall reads on Patreon (the video is still available). It was a LOT of fun, but it was still 90 degrees ... Read more
Your relationship with William Shakespeare likely depends on your high school English class experience. I’m fortunate that my first Shakespeare experience, Romeo and Juliet, was reasonably interesting in the hands ... Read more
