YA and MG Favorites of 2021

I typically read in the adult category more than kid lit, but this year I read 14 young adult and…

Nonfiction Favorites of 2021

As I detailed in my 2021 Reading – By the Numbers post, my nonfiction reads last year were pretty evenly…

I read forty-six adult fiction books this year. Twelve were historical novels, ten were thrillers, and 24 I’ve categorized as…

I read 115 books this year. 37,600 words, if one is to believe word counts from Goodreads. That’s a lot…

A lot of people had a difficult time reading in 2020. With the world in such a mess, it can…

I’ve heard there are some writers who just start. These writers, if I’m to believe the stories, put pen to…

On January 1, 2018, my friend Chad and I decided to start a Facebook reading group. It wasn’t supposed to…

On the evening of January 31, 2019, I sat in a third floor classroom of Loft Literary in Minneapolis and…

March 4, 2006 The phone rang at our Texas home on Saturday afternoon. It was the nursing home Dad had…

My forebears gaze at me, neatly arrayed in the sepia tones of 1936. In the center sits the patriarch, my…