I have to admit that I was not a Stephen King fan before reading this book. I am now. The Outsider begins in Flint City, Oklahoma with a gruesome murder and a manhunt to find the killer. However, once the case begins to unfold it stands clear that the murderer might not be who everyone …
Transforming your Passions
This post is a little off base from my previous posts, but it has been sticking in my mind all afternoon while I have been thinking about what to write about. How can we use our strengths and passions to assist us in all the other work that we do? I work with parents and …
Dracula
“Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them. Ah, …
Books, books and more books
Does anyone else have a huge stack of books that they haven't read? You promise yourself that you won't buy any more until you read at least one from the ever growing pile of unread books... and then you come home with 5 new ones to add to the pile? Every time I see my …
Favorite Fall Fantasies
“I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to find reason for hope, to find strength. While a bad book leaves readers with a sense of hopelessness and despair, a good novel, through stories of values realized, of wrongs righted, can bring …
Action and Adventure: Whats not to love?
I remember sitting in my old bedroom at my parents house when I was young. My room was in the basement so it was always freezing. I was wrapped in a warm blanket in bed, reading a James Rollins book. Amazonia. This book reeled me in from the first word and I still love it …
Books or Movies? Is one better or do they both have a place?
I think it's time to get into that age old debate: books or movies. Let me paint you a picture… you put on your favorite old sweat pants, feeling the soft worn fabric on your skin. You put on an old t shirt, one that has a band name you can no longer remember from …
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Choosing the Perfect Read
Old books smell of dust and the literary smoke of history, of writer-soul and the ink of eternity. ~Terri Guillemets The smell hits you as you walk through the doorway, musty, old… the smell of history. My favorite smell. There are floor to ceiling bookshelves on every wall, books lining every square inch of the …
Houses, Humanity and Horror.
"She had understood before she had ever dreamed of a city such as this, where every texture, every color, leapt out at you, where every fragrance was a drug, and the air itself was something alive and breathing "-Anne Rice, The Witching Hour https://images.app.goo.gl/FoiEMhm88AhcapNa7 Even though I love horror movies, I had never really read …
Every Book and Cranny 