What Started With Pillowcases

When I think of the pillowcase project I like to think I brightened some difficult days or added a small dose of love to a few treatment plans. I hope this project made a tiny portion of the world a little better. Pillowcases were an important part of life for me the first several years […]

Situational Readers, Anybody?

Does the smell of sunscreen versus the warm crackling in the fireplace alter your reading habits? I am quite interested to know your answer. During the months of hot sun and swimming pools I am drawn towards books about summer. Stories of summer camps, summer vacations, black-market lemonade dealers, or anything with a bright and […]

The Masterfully Written Vanderbeeker Characters

I started working on this post the day before the newest Vanderbeeker book came out. I was going to write it and post it that day and it would be ready and waiting for you when The Vanderbeekers Make a Wish came out. But clearly my plans didn’t work out. But all is well, because […]

2021 End of Year Book Awards

The end of one year comes and our favorite radio stations start handing out awards to music artists, the internet is packed full of the best photography from the year, and book organizations send out lists of the top books from the past year. When I got an email from Goodreads earlier in December with […]