It’s hard to believe this is the last column I will write for MVF. I’ve been trying to think of how to say all I want to communicate within the bounds of one blog post, but I still can’t come up with a way to express in a few how much this site, its co-owners, staff and readers have meant to me over the past three years. ...
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Last year at this time I wrote about my personal New Year’s resolutions for MVF in 2011. I thought it would be a good idea to look back and see how well I did in meeting my goals. 1. My goal is to read and review fifty books. It might be a lofty goal, but I think I can achieve it. By my count, I read and reviewed 49 books...
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We all have them, those books that we read for pure guilty pleasure. They will never be considered literary fiction and many of you might never admit to your friends that you read them, but they will secretly always stay close to your bedside, ready when you need some mindless reading entertainment. In my opinion, we need these...
read moreAfter two years of writing this column for MVF, there are some months that I just can’t think of anything fresh to write about. There are those rare times when a topic hits me and I have my column done well in advance. Then, there are the months that I am thinking about what to write at the last minute. Or, there are times...
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As many of you already know, September 24th through October 1st is banned book week. Book banning began in colonial times, when books were banned for being obscene or blasphemous. Through the years, books continued to be banned for reasons ranging from religious, moral to political grounds. Before television and the...
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SarahBella wrote a blog this week about falling behind on her “to be read” list. Like Sarah, and most avid readers I know, this is nothing new. I don’t think I have ever had a manageable number of books to read. The list gets longer each day as I come across more books that I just HAVE to read. Reading her...
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When people ask what my hobby is, the first thing I say is reading. I often feel like I should say something that sounds cooler, like mountain climbing or scuba diving, but the truth is, the one thing I like to do more than anything (well, besides sleeping) is reading. Give me a good book and a quiet place to read and I will be...
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As a child, I lived most of my time in a make believe world. Whether it was fighting with the other girls in pre-school to be Daisy Duke that day, playing Barbie, or house, I loved nothing more than to be lost in a world of my own creating. I even had my own imaginary friends, Bam-Bam and Carmichael, and we had many crazy...
read moreSince the purchase of my eReader two years ago, I don’t read many actual books. However, my mom still does and loans me her books when she is done reading them, since we both love the paranormal genre. One series she loaned me was the Mercy Thompson novels by Patricia Briggs. The first thing I noticed about the books was...
read moreI recently read an article about how the Oxford English Dictionary recently added LOL, OMG and <3. While I use each of these phrases when I tweet or text, I have never considered them proper English. I understand that there are plenty of words and phrases in the dictionary that are slang. A dictionary is more than just a book...
read moreSelf-publishing is not a new concept. For years, authors who haven’t been able to find success through the traditional publishing route have been using their own money to self-publish books. However, with the popularity of the Nook, Kindle, and Sony eReader, authors are now able to self-publish their works with more ease then...
read moreI’m participating in the MVF 50 book Challenge. Part of the challenge is to read at least four classic novels. As I started thinking about what classics I wanted to read, it got me wondering just what makes a book a classic. We all can probably name a list as long as our arm books that are considered classics, but have you...
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