Have you ever traced your ancestry to see what you would find in your past? A while back I had a cousin who did a little digging and an aunt…
Flashback Saturday: Memoirs of a Geisha Movie Review
I have the travel bug big time. It seems I’m always looking to travel to a new place, explore a new city or delve into a new culture. I’ve traveled…
2014 Awards Season – disappointing for book adaptations
Just this past Sunday the 86th Academy Awards aired. Antics from Ellen include ordering pizza for the actors in the front row and taking a group selfie while live. But…
Who wants to employ a budding author? Where they were before they were.
I currently work in television. I’m a marketing director for a small television service based out of Southwest Florida. When I first moved here and joined this company I confided…
Rising Stars in British Literature
There are millions of people out there right now who have an idea for writing. They want to tell their story; they want to expand on a fantasy they’ve had…
Recommendations for your reading type (Part 1)
I recently read an article online about 5 different reading types that people fall into. While it was a good article, I found it to be limiting and I seemed to…
Get the inside scoop on some of the world’s best Olympic Athletes of all time!
Watching the Olympic athletes perform this week in London has been inspiring. There have been so many records broken this week that it makes we want to get the inside…
Should we be challenging our kids to read these controversial stories?
Do you remember your Freshman English class when you were required to read To Kill a Mockingbird and then discuss afterwards in class? How about The Catcher in the Rye?…
Reading the Books vs. Watching the Movies
You may have noticed that not only do I like to read books, but I love to watch movies. Oftentimes, the books I read are in preparation for a much-anticipated…
Book Review: Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha is probably one of the best “one hit wonders” of modern literature. The story of its creation is almost as fascinating as the story…