Booktoberfest is Coming!

It is a truth universally acknowledged that we adults have fond memories of reading as a child. Participating in The Book It Program to get that Pizza Hut pizza. That decadent feeling when teachers allowed us “special reading time” on bean bag chairs at school. Giggling over getting caught reading with a flashlight under the…
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Ode to (Unexpected) Joy

In defiance of a year that should be bundled into cat-pee and Clamato stained, rain-soaked carpet ripped from a rat-infested flophouse, driven in a 1977 Ford Econoline down a dark, potholed highway and dumped over a craggy ravine into a polluted quarry…I’m writing a hymn to the unexpected joys I found in 2020. Perhaps you’ll…
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Up Lit? Don’t Mind If I Do!

“Reading is a route out of yourself” - author Matt Haig There are many books out there that are feel-good books. Books that just immediately sweep you into a beautiful place with lovely people and wonderful scenarios. You are tenderly wrapped in a gorgeous setting, everyone is likable, and the plot moves you from Good…
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Looking Out My Backdoor

Lawrence is blessed to have some great local author action, even when our local authors have flown off to live that Brooklyn literary life. Ben Lerner is one such author, and it is our luck that he will be here in Lawrence, speaking at LPL on October 5th at 7:00 pm. And it seems that…
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Telling it True

“Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.” ~ George Santayana.  I recently had the honor of moderating a Historical Fiction panel of four authors, Julie Berry, Rachel DeWoskin, Stacey Lee, and Ruta Sepetys. I have this to report: if you love Historical Fiction, rest easy that the genre is in excellent…
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