Embarrassed and shocked, I went home. Now, at the age of 13, I was starting to distance myself from my mother. I certainly wasn’t going to tell her about my humiliating library confrontation. But the librarian had called her. She was a good woman who had gotten to know me and she enjoyed encouraging my reading habits. I’m sure she called out of a genuine concern for my impressionable and voracious mind. But my mother’s response changed my life.
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10 Winter Reads for Snowed-In Wanderers (part 1)
Whatever the groundhog may have promised, a fresh bout of winter has descended, at least in my town. I’m not too upset. I enjoy winter. Long snowy days are perfect to hunker down with a hot cup of tea and a good book. Winter is prime reading season. So before it gets away, here are my favorite reads to sweep you off to magnificent places while you settle into your armchair by the fire.
WanderLit World Tour
The WanderLit world tour is about to embark. My New Year’s Resolution is to read a book a week. Not just any old book but books carefully selected to carry my imagination around the globe and experience world cultures by sinking deep into the pages of traveling writers and foreign authors. Creating my list, I wanted to build in a little variety. I have everything from genre fiction to history, biography, lit-fic and tour books.
One thing that pops up over and over is women writers and women’s stories. I guess it always comes back to Wanderlust and Lipstick.