There are a few books I’ve read that are so sad, so devastating, so traumatizing that I vow never to read them again. I almost always break that vow because devastating books are usually some of the best, and they deserve a re-read. I recently broke that vow last week by revisiting one of the…
To my now departed college professor, Mr. Gordon Jones – The most well-read person I’ve ever known and a true Kindred Spirit I’m currently in four book clubs. I keep joining them, still searching for just the right group of people who want to talk about books in the way I crave. By that, I…
Where does your super awesome and unique-sounding name come from? When my mom was pregnant with me she read the book Exodus by Leon Uris (not the one in the Bible although that one is also very good.) Out of all the characters in the book, one of them stood out to her. The character…