June 2, 2023

This site is called Shepard: Discover the Best Books. I have only just learned of it.   They asked if I would like to share my favorite books, and I jumped at the chance. What a great way to find books written with the ideas you most like to see in what you read! How…

August 4, 2020

I read quite a bit, often following several series at once. I’ve been keeping up with four separate series whose writers have been kind enough to be on quite fast release schedules. I can’t write at that speed for a variety of reasons, but I believe all four of these writers are writing full time….

October 1, 2015

Poorly written stories make for a blurry book, lacking color Lately, due to my lighter teaching schedule, I have been reading a book a week, minimum. (Last year, a book every two months was my average.) Usually I will read a book to the end, waiting for it to redeem itself if it is less…

December 25, 2014

Ready to read at a moment’s notice Just today I decided to make a list of my new favorite authors and was surprised to find that they were all women. What’s up with that?  All my past favorites have been largely men, or in some cases women using male pen names. Same question applies. I…