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How I Spent My Summer Vacation 6 Aug 2013 | 02:52 am
Tweet In my version of heaven on earth, I’ve been to Oxford University for a week to study Jane Austen’s heroines. Here is what I learned: In Austen’s day, (she wrote at the turn of the century, arou...
Everything You Never Needed to Know About Jane Austen 23 Jul 2013 | 11:39 am
Tweet Did you know that Pride and Prejudice was originally title “First Impressions”? And that, after being rejected by a publisher without even being read, it sat on the shelf for seventeen years? L...
Is this the best novel ever written? Maybe. 9 Apr 2012 | 05:51 am
Tweet Like most high school students, I was forced to read Dickens. In my case, it was David Copperfield. Miss Henry, the quintessential spinster who taught Honor’s English at Poly High School in Riv...
Is this the best novel ever written? Maybe. 9 Apr 2012 | 01:51 am
Tweet Like most high school students, I was forced to read Dickens. In my case, it was David Copperfield. Miss Henry, the quintessential spinster who taught Honor’s English at Poly High School in Rive...
How to Spoil a Perfectly Good Child 19 Jan 2012 | 06:47 am
Tweet “The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.” Jeremiah 31:29 Parenting experts Richard and Linda Eyre recently wrote an insightful series of articles on the s...
How to Spoil a Perfectly Good Child 19 Jan 2012 | 01:47 am
Tweet “The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.” Jeremiah 31:29 Parenting experts Richard and Linda Eyre recently wrote an insightful series of articles on the sub...
January – March 2012: What We Are Reading 10 Jan 2012 | 02:09 pm
Tweet I thought it might be good to take just one quarter, or three books, at a time this year, so that you can be aware of what’s coming, but also so that we can leave ourselves open to suggestions ...
The Best Books Club and How it Works 10 Jan 2012 | 02:04 pm
Tweet Welcome to the Best Books Club. Here are the rules: 1. Read my article about the book. 2. Read the book. 3. Send in a comment if you feel like it. Yep, it’s that simple. Every month I’ll...
January – March 2012: What We Are Reading 10 Jan 2012 | 09:09 am
Tweet I thought it might be good to take just one quarter, or three books, at a time this year, so that you can be aware of what’s coming, but also so that we can leave ourselves open to suggestions f...
The Best Books Club and How it Works 10 Jan 2012 | 05:04 am
Tweet Welcome to the Best Books Club. Here are the rules: 1. Read my article about the book. 2. Read the book. 3. Send in a comment if you feel like it. Yep, it’s that simple. Every month I’ll...
