Language is a beautiful—and often confusing—thing. I can’t tell you how many random things I’ve learned through reading, but my favorite has to be expressions. I love all the different and creative ways you can say things that mean other things. Who knew? Some of these are new ones I discovered while reading, and some […]
A book calls to you on a shelf, and unable to turn from the siren song, you pick it up. Four books and two days later, you blink and realize you have to stumble your way back into the “real” world, which is disappointingly devoid of magic, and they get mad when you stab people, […]
Confession: I have never traveled the world. Unless Canada and the United States count. No? Well, fine. Be like that. That being said, the beautiful thing about books is that they help us travel the world, all from the safety and relative comfort of our living room. You can learn about other cultures, “see” the […]
Despite what the weather seems to think, Spring has just about sprung! Never mind the incoming snow. Ahem. Where I live, spring means ungodly allergies, thunderstorms, and flooding, which is … perfect weather for reading? I mean, it seems as good a time as any, really. So here’s my spring reading TBR list. There’s honestly […]
In a perfect world, bacon and cake would grow from bushes, everyone would own a dragon, and books would always turn out the way we expect them to. Unfortunately, none of these are the case, although I sincerely hope someone is at least working on that dragon thing. Over the many years of reading probably […]
Remember that time when you were little and cute and innocent? Yeah, me neither. But in my childhood, I did a lot of reading. (Ha, surprise, bet you didn’t see that coming.) So for Top Ten Tuesday, I thought it’d be fun to drown in a little nostalgia and dig up the top 10 quotes […]