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…
Notable Quotables: Journeys
(Notable Quotables is a meme originally brought to you by the Bewitched Bookworms. Every Monday you’re invited to share a favorite quote or two from the books you’ve been reading.) Every book is, in one way or another, about a journey; this can be a journey between two worlds or between two minds. It’s great…
Notable Quotables: Characters
(Notable Quotables is a meme originally brought to you by the Bewitched Bookworms. Every Monday you’re invited to share a favorite quote or two from the books you’ve been reading.) Stories are about characters: heroes, villains, and the entire varied range in between. Perfect characters ruin books, and flawed ones make stories worth reading. Take…
Notable Quotables: Love
(Notable Quotables is a meme originally brought to you by the Bewitched Bookworms. Every Monday you’re invited to share a favorite quote or two from the books you’ve been reading.) I’m a big fan of love (my friends can attest to this). In fact, the older I get the more I am convinced that the…
Notable Quotables: Literature
(Notable Quotables is a meme originally brought to you by the Bewitched Bookworms. Every Monday you’re invited to share a favorite quote or two from the books you’ve been reading.) I got a copy of Jack Murnighan’s Beowulf on the Beach: What to Love and What to Skip in Literature’s 50 Greatest Hits awhile back,…