When I was a kid, I loved to have a book to read. I was blessed with a mother who took me to the library where shelves and shelves of books beckoned me into new worlds. The summer was time to read. If there wasn’t anything to do on the farm which was often the case in July after the …
Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt Stop #26
Welcome to the Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt! If you’ve just discovered the hunt, be sure to start at Stop #1, and collect the clues through all the stops, in order, so you can enter to win one of our top 5 grand prizes! • The hunt BEGINS on 10/21 at noon MST with Stop #1 at LisaTawnBergren.com. • Hunt …
Book Treasures – An Interview with an Avid Reader
“My dream as a girl was to be locked in the library overnight. All those treasures, all mine for a time.” (Susan Gibson Snodgrass) In this post, I have a treat for you as I invited Susan Gibson Snodgrass over to share about her love of reading with us. Authors like me love Susan because she is an avid reader who …
Why Do You Read Novels?
Some time ago I had an interview with a writer who said he never read fiction. He didn’t like fiction. He wanted to read true stories and obviously thought fiction a waste of time. I have no idea why he was interviewing me since he felt that way. I do write fiction, after all. Anyway, he asked me why anyone …
More Love for Books and Reading
I don’t think I ever finished a book by reading with a flashlight under a cover, but I might have if I’d had a flashlight with batteries that lasted. When I was a kid, flashlights were more luxury than something on every shelf. Most of the time the one we did have seemed to always be lacking batteries and if …
A Day for Books and Smiles
“To dream of afar, to chase a star, to believe in Captain Hook. To dance with bears and have no cares, this is the magic of a book.” ― H.L. Stephens The Kentucky Book Fair was yesterday, and in my last blog post I mentioned that I’d probably smile so much all day that I would have tired smiling muscles …
Book Fest at the Library
In the last few months I’ve had the privilege of visiting several libraries to share about my books with readers there. Last Saturday, it was fun to be able to have one of those book events right here in my hometown. Along with about thirty other authors I got to be part of the first annual Anderson Public Library Book …
Another Hometown Book Party
If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book. (J.K. Rowling) In 2005, my first inspirational novel, Scent of Lilacs, was published. It had been several years since I’d had the fun of having a book published. So when that book was released, it was almost like having a first ever book published again. In fact …
In the Good Ol’ Summertime
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” -Henry James Do you remember how you looked forward to summer vacation when you were a kid in school? I do even though summer did hold plenty of chores and work days for this farm girl. But there was also time to …
Have We Forgotten How to Read?
I just read an internet post that suggests we’ve forgotten how to read. It included this quote from Eric Schmidt, the founder of Google. “I worry that the level of interrupt, the sort of overwhelming rapidity of information … is in fact affecting cognition. It is affecting deeper thinking. I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is …