Having grown up reading high fantasy novels, I came to have a deep love of author-drawn maps, glossaries of elvish terms, and character lists that included the names of dragons, queens, princes, wizards and the boy who worked in the castle kitchens and didn’t know he was a hero in the making. But, there was one familiar …
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My Physical Book Addiction— A Rambling Confession of Guilt (Not!)
I like to tell stories about how I read voraciously as a child. Even when I put down my current book to eat breakfast or lunch, I would find myself searching out the words on the cereal box or the mayonnaise jar. I read everywhere. All the time. I couldn’t stop. It was a torture …
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If Jane Austen and Charles Dickens had a baby…Middlemarch!
I've got a confession to make. It isn't an easy one for an avid reader and writer with a degree in English from a fine liberal arts college. I've always prided myself on my broadness of view and quality of thought--but here goes... I hated Middlemarch the first time I read it. There, I've said …
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Leanne Pankuch 