Blood, Guts and Gore

What's your favorite spooky Halloween read? Does it go something like this... The lights suddenly go out. You look up from your novel, the lengthy prose forgotten as you stare at your front door, standing slightly ajar. A crisp autumn breeze sweeps over you, sending chills down your spine as the door swings open to …

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Are Books Becoming Obsolete?

Are books becoming obsolete? In the age of instant gratification and technology, are our favorite paper filled books becoming a dead means to transmit our thoughts and knowledge? Some may say no, and are adamant that books will be around forever but some are forging a new path in how we read books. Do you …

The Sword of Truth: Why You Need to Read this Series

There is one series in my library that has been the most influential in my life and is the one that got me into fantasy in the first place. The Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind. This series is packed full of adventure, monsters and magic and will forever hold a special place on my …

Transforming your Passions

This post is a little off base from my previous posts, but it has been sticking in my mind all afternoon while I have been thinking about what to write about. How can we use our strengths and passions to assist us in all the other work that we do? I work with parents and …

Dracula

“Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them. Ah, …

Books, books and more books

Does anyone else have a huge stack of books that they haven't read? You promise yourself that you won't buy any more until you read at least one from the ever growing pile of unread books... and then you come home with 5 new ones to add to the pile? Every time I see my …

Favorite Fall Fantasies

“I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to find reason for hope, to find strength. While a bad book leaves readers with a sense of hopelessness and despair, a good novel, through stories of values realized, of wrongs righted, can bring …

Action and Adventure: Whats not to love?

I remember sitting in my old bedroom at my parents house when I was young. My room was in the basement so it was always freezing. I was wrapped in a warm blanket in bed, reading a James Rollins book. Amazonia. This book reeled me in from the first word and I still love it …

Books or Movies? Is one better or do they both have a place?

I think it's time to get into that age old debate: books or movies. Let me paint you a picture… you put on your favorite old sweat pants, feeling the soft worn fabric on your skin. You put on an old t shirt, one that has a band name you can no longer remember from …