This month for my nightstand post I’m continuing with the theme of books I’ve already read along with those I’d hope to read at some point in the near future. I think I’ve read seven or eight books so far this year so that gives you an idea of how slow I am as a reader. But these …
The genre-jumping, world-hopping, mind-bending tour which is Six Degrees of Kool Books continues this week with yet another twist (if you’re new to this whole Six Degrees business, you can fill yourself in by reading this post). Last week, Jenelle Schmidt introduced us to Gurgi and the Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. She made it …
Last week for Six Degrees of Kool Books we had two great books featured, Heidi, which J.L. Mbewe wrote about and The Rainbow Garden, which Jenelle Schmidt discussed. While I’ve not read either of them, they both sound like wonderful books and I hope I will be able to read them one day. Of the two, Heidi was the one I …
As I’ve mentioned before, I am a terribly slow reader. Even though I’ve always loved stories, I was a late bloomer when it came to actually reading books. On the flip side, while I may not break any records for speed reading I tend to have a pretty high retention rate for what I’ve read. So …
Here we go once again with another Kool Book in the Six Degrees series. Last week, J.L. Mbewe wrote about the Atherton series. Though I have yet to read those books, it sounded like a fascinating series, blending elements of both science fiction and fantasy in a very unique world. One of the characters from …
I’ve already explained in this series of posts how I almost always use music from soundtracks to write to. And while that usually means movie soundtracks, such is not the case with this week’s song. I’d wager that at least some of the people reading this will have never heard the theme song from the …
I’m running through my playlist of the top five songs to write to and, as I mentioned before, it’s all songs from soundtracks and all instrumental songs at that. My number four song comes from a movie that is actually based on a book which I’ve reviewed and which I thoroughly enjoy and that is …
Friendly dragons? They’re not unheard of in books these days. And that’s just the sort of character Jenelle described in last week’s “Six Degrees of Kool Books”, the magical game where we get to see which character from one book reminds us of a character from another book. Kazul was described as “kind and good-hearted…excellent to have on …
