THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A WRITER, READER, EDITOR, TRAVELER, TEACHER AND PUBLIC SPEAKER.
From the category archives:
Every once in a while I come across an author who captivates my imagination, and I go on a splurge reading everything they’ve ever written.
This year, my author splurge was John Shors.
In June, I read his novel, Beside a Burning Sea, and interviewed him on my haiku web site.
In August I read his newly released [...]
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A friend told me about a book called Carpe Diem. It’s a young adult novel, she said, about traveling in Asia.
Since she’s a reader whose opinion I respect, I decided to take her advice and seek out this book written by Autumn Cornwell.
In it, a sixteen year-old girl named Vassar gets kidnapped to [...]
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I just finished a fantastic book. It was called The Lost City of Z and it was written by David Grann.
The book is a biography, a history lesson, an adventure tale and a travelogue all rolled into one. Seeing as how I love all of these things, I was completely captivated by this book. [...]
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This book has been sitting on my book shelf for a couple years.
My aunt gave it to me. She found it in a hotel book exchange while on vacation somewhere in the Caribbean (I totally dig hotel book exchanges, but that’s a topic for another time).
Anyway, she picked it up and sent it to me [...]
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Graphic novels are hot right now. The trend is something I’ve never much understood. I was never a comic book reader and my attention even wanes over daily cartoons. I prefer a good old-fashioned read with pages full of words.
However, the other day I decided to give a graphic novel a try.
The book [...]
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Sometimes I wonder which came first — my love of travel or my love of geography?
It’s a chicken-and-egg puzzle for me. As far as I’m concerned, the two are intricately linked.
I can spend hours planning a trip and pouring over maps.
At some point, my love of maps and geography spilled over into [...]
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