Tag: reading

A Year in Reading, 2019

Posted on January 1, 2020 by candacerobbbooks

Happy New Year! Wishing you all peace and joy in 2020. I have no appetite for year end “best of” lists, but I appreciate a December tradition at the literary website The Millions (themillions.com), “A Year in Reading”. Writers share short lists of books… Continue Reading “A Year in Reading, 2019”

Category: featured, Medieval Culture, Medieval Music, The Writing LifeTags: Agatha Christie, Anne Bagnall Yardley, Chaucer: a European Life, Constance Hoffman Berman, featured, Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!, Grendel's Mother, Katherine Arden, Laura Amy Schlitz, Maria Dahvana Headley, Marion Turner, Naomi Novik, Performing Piety, reading, Spinning Silver, Susan Signe Morrison, The Mere Wife, The White Nuns, Winternight Trilogy

The Magic and Wonder of Reading

Posted on February 3, 2014 by candacerobbbooks

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This passage in Rebecca Solnit’s The Faraway Nearby is so apropos for me and many of the writers I know. And it speaks of the delight of meeting fellow readers–even readers of our books–in person, online, in letters. We readers share wonder–Have you read…?… Continue Reading “The Magic and Wonder of Reading”

Category: The Writing LifeTags: children's books, E Nesbit, fairy tales, Madeleine L'Engle, Marchette Chute, Mary Norton, reading, Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby

The Night Library

Posted on June 25, 2013 by candacerobbbooks

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