Cinnamon ice cream and pumpkin pie, baseball and summer, Batman and Robin. There are certain combinations that just bring out the best in each other, where the sum is so much greater than the parts. And reading and rainy days are one of those. However, this little quote I found shows that there can be …
Time travel is one of those elusive treasures that is hard to get right in fiction, but when it works it can be amazing. But every book you have ever read is really a time travel book if you think about it. Because you are reading what someone thought in the past. Sometimes that person …
I have a confession to make. I’m a bookwalker. Okay, so I know that’s not a real word. What I’m talking about is walking and reading at the same time. It’s not the safest way to read a book, I’ll admit, but it’s an invaluable practice to a time-crunched reader such as myself. I’m not the …
This stop in the journey at last brings this series to the present (2015 at the time of this writing), covering what for me is probably the most fruitful and exciting period in my reading career, a time I’ll refer to as the “inkling phase”. Most people who know me for any length of time will …
