(Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme brought to you by The Broke and the Bookish. Want to make your own list? Clicking the image will take you to this week’s post. Happy listing!) It’s fun to read books you know you’ll love, but it’s important to stretch your reading muscles now and then. Here’s…
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Top 10 Tuesday: Books I Wish I Could Read for the First Time Again
(Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme brought to you by The Broke and the Bookish. Want to make your own list? Clicking the image will take you to this week’s post. Happy listing!) There are several books that I tend to read over and over again; although I enjoy the story each time, inevitably…
Review: The Epic of Gilgamesh
If you’re into old stories, you can’t get much older than The Epic of Gilgamesh. It was written almost 1,000 years before The Bible, and is preserved on and translated from a series of 11 clay tablets. Although called an “epic,” its original writers had no word corresponding to “epic” or “myth,” so it was…
Top 10 Tuesday: Underrated Books
(Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme brought to you by The Broke and the Bookish. Want to make your own list? Clicking the image will take you to this week’s post. Happy listing!) This week’s list is all about underrated books. It’s been a tough one for me, mainly because I read a lot…
A Small Taste of Heaven: Sacred Harp
I’ve always loved music, and have always been a singer — even at the age of six, when I couldn’t carry a tune and my grandfather shook his head and told my grandmother, “She’ll never be a singer.” After participating in choirs for 15+ years, I’m proud to say that I can certainly carry a…