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Looking Back at Summer Reading
by Laura Bloxham When I was in grade school I lived for summer reading programs at the local library. If I read so many books or so many pages, I could qualify for prizes. Usually the top prize was a...
View ArticleSummer Reading: Daughter of Time II
by Laura Bloxham In Josephine Tey’s mystery A Daughter of Time (1952), Alan Grant, a Scotland Yard Inspector, is confined to bed with a broken leg. He’s bored until he begins his investigation of...
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Summer Reading: Delights of Defiance
by Amanda C. R. Clark The house is quiet; parents are sleeping. You create a tent under the sheets; you switch on the flashlight. You fumble the book open, acutely conscious of its crinkling pages. And...
View ArticleSummer Reading: Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
by Ann Marie Bausch I might never have discovered one of the most important books I’ve ever read if not for an unlikely ally: Fox News. In 2009, author Reza Aslan did an interview on the network to...
View ArticleSummer Reading: It’s All About the Setting
by Sunni Wilkinson The summer I worked in Alaska for a helicopter tour company, I spent as much time reading as I did camping, or working for that matter. Sometimes I read in tandem with working or...
View ArticleSummer Reading: Spending Summer Scared
by Lyle Enright Winter tends to be the time that many associate with the darker parts of the imagination. The cold drives us inside, the sun goes down early, and we celebrate that turnover at...
View ArticleSummer Reading: Water I Gladly Drank
by Julie Riddle This isn’t about summer reading, but about how reading returned to me the summers of my college years and rendered them anew. I worked four summers for the U.S. Forest Service, and...
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Summer Reading: Poetry as Antidote to Apathy
by Kathryn Smith I am tired of violence. I am tired of lies and hateful rhetoric. I am tired, but it’s not time to go to sleep. It is time to wake up. These three poetry collections are the antithesis...
View ArticleSummer Reading: Conversation of a Lifetime
by Karen Bjork Kubin How do you pick the next book you will read? Do you read for love? For knowledge? Out of duty? I myself am a somewhat undisciplined reader. Life is short. Mostly I follow my heart....
View ArticleSummer Reading: Why Fantasy Novels Should be on Your Reading List
by Nicolas White and Sara Whitestone “Fairy tales are more than true – not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.” – Neil Gaiman paraphrasing G.K....
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