Recipe & Review: The God of Lost Words, A.J. Hackwith

Book Review: The God of Lost Words, Hell’s Library Book 3, A.J. Hackwith   Fantasy: The God of Lost Words, Hell’s Library Book 3, A.J. Hackwith   Hell’s Library has always had a fraught relationship with its host domain. In the previous novel of the series, The Archive of the Forgotten, former librarian Claire, current […]

Recipe & Review: The Archive of the Forgotten, A. J. Hackwith

Book Review: The Archive of the Forgotten, Hell’s Library Book 2, A. J. Hackwith   Book Review: The Archive of the Forgotten, Hell’s Library Book 2, A. J. Hackwith   Claire and Brevity have saved the Unwritten Library, but at enormous cost. Thousands of books were sacrificed and the remaining books have cast out Claire as librarian. […]

Recipe & Review: The Library of the Unwritten, A. J. Hackwith

Book Review: The Library of the Unwritten, Hell’s Library Book 1, A. J. Hackwith   Book Review: The Library of the Unwritten, Hell’s Library Book 1, A.J. Hackwith   If you were a story, what would your “hell” be? Not a character in a story, but an actual story. In A.J. Hackwith’s brilliantly inventive novel, story hell […]

Book Review: The Deep, Claire Nouvian

Book Review: The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss, Claire Nouvian   Nonfiction/Science: The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss, Claire Nouvian   This is one of the most exquisitely beautiful books I have seen. It is also one of the strangest. The Deep is a coffee-table sized book filled with beautiful color pictures […]

Blog Tour: 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths, Emma L. Smith

Book Review: 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths, Emma L. Smith   Nonfiction: 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths, Emma L. Smith   One of my most recent happy moments centers around a video my daughter in law sent, featuring my youngest son (an economics/math major and […]

Quote: Martin Luther King Jr. on Education

Quote: Martin Luther King Jr. on The Function of Education   The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education. Martin Luther King Jr.   About Martin Luther King Jr. — https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1964/king/biographical/  https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/martin-luther-king-jr https://www.biography.com/activist/martin-luther-king-jr   Quote: Martin Luther […]

Quote: Little Women, Louisa May Alcott on Christmas

Quote: Little Women, Louisa May Alcott on Christmas The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting. Louisa May Alcott, Little Women   For more on Louisa May Alcott, American author see https://www.biography.com/writer/louisa-may-alcott – biography […]