Category: Reading

I can certainly understand why Terry Pratchett’s novel NATION won so many awards and received so much critical acclaim.  It’s set in a parallel world to ours that has enough changes that he can do what he likes with certain elements of history including a flu epidemic making one of his young characters second in…

Claire Dunkel, the author of THE HOLLOW KINGDOM, once wrote that she never reads other people’s novels when she’s in the middle of writing one of her own books. This was years ago, and she very well may have changed her approach.  But I thought there was something to that.  I still do read, but…

When I was a kid, my school and public libraries always had a limit of how many books any single person could check out.  Since it only took me a few minutes to read a picture book, I made the jump to chapter books a few months into first grade. I think that my early reading habits…