So last year, my goal was to read more books than I read in 2009. And I picked the BBC’s list of top 100 books to guide my choices. Let’s...

I believe in love at first sight. . . except, for me, it has more to do with songs than people. So I guess that is love at first listen....

For the last several months or so, I’ve been reading Frederick Buechner’s book Listening to Your Life during a part of my quiet time each...

I’m worried that the library system here in Nashville is going to organize a police force and come arrest me. Seriously. I mean, really,...

Date finished: 8/15/2010 Review: When I was in high school, Great Expectations was one of the books we had to read in English class. And...

I’m an editor. Once upon a time, I was a copy editor. I like words. I heart grammar. I think good grammar is important. Sometimes, my...

Awhile ago, I wrote a review of the book Tess of the D’Urbervilles. It’s a classic. On many lists of books you should read, though I...

Review: I’ll admit this: I had read MOST of this book previously. I’ve long held it to be the most depressing book ever written. I knew...

As you can tell from the tabs at the top of this page, I like to read. That isn’t something that happened in the last few years, though....

Date finished: 3/28/10 Review: Many of you know that I’ve been reading through Donald Miller’s latest book. And if you’ve ever read my...

Remember awhile back how I said I was trying to read books on the BBC’s top 100 books list this year? Mostly, I’m concentrating on...

I am a lover of stories. I love to hear them, to read them, to watch them, write them, distill them from someone’s life, and daydream...

Date finished: 2/13/2010 Review: I have a vivid memory of sitting on the couch with my mom when I was a little girl reading Little Women...

I have a long-standing love affair with books. Bookstores put me into a peaceful, happy state as I run my fingers across the spines of...

Last year, I went all crazy and set this goal to ready 50 books in a year. While that didn’t happen, I did successfully read about 26...

Last night, in the middle of reading a book, I started crying. That admission actually isn’t the newsworthy part of this post. I cry a...

So, I set this goal to read 50 books in a year for 2009. It wasn’t really a resolution, per se, but a goal and something I could do to...

For some reason, about two months ago, I started getting Newsweek in the mail. The thing was, I couldn’t remember ever signing up for it....

So my plan to read a book a week this year may have hit a rough patch. Or, you could say, hit a traffic jam on Revolutionary Road....

So I could write a beautiful, thought-provoking post today, but I’m not going to. Mostly because I haven’t had many thought-provoking...