WRITER’S CORNER: Sugar Creek

BLOGGER'S NOTE: This is the first in what will hopefully become a series of personal writings from yours truly on That Book Lady Blog. Recent events have pushed me to return to one of my first loves, creative writing/journaling. These will be early drafts, so please be gentle with me. I have creek water running …

A few of my favorite (Christmas) things

Merry Christmas to all, from That Book Lady Blog! In honor of this special day, I want to share with you some of the things I enjoy most this time of year. Favorite book When I was little, my mom ordered "A Story a Day 'Til Christmas" from the Current catalog. For several years, it was …

Reading Notes: “Little Women”

Happy Saturday, dear book bloggers. I'm in rather high spirits this morning. Yesterday marked four years since Jared's and my first date. Due to some nasty weather, we weren't able to celebrate with a return trip to the diner and movie theater where it all began, but hopefully we can recreate our first date, as …

Week in review – Oct. 22, 2016

Another week is almost in the books. This past week, I didn't read as much as I'd have liked BECAUSE NLCS PLAYOFFS. Go, Cubs, go. Jared and I are nervously awaiting tonight's Game 6. You can read my husband's thoughts on the playoffs here - he is a lifelong Cubs fan and knows his stuff. (I just …

Required reading: The good, the bad and the ugly

Throughout my formative years, I came to regard two words taken together with a mix of excitement and skepticism. The educational system, in its infinite wisdom, has designated certain tomes as "required reading." I recall the excitement of seeing identical volumes stacked neatly in a box, each copy marked with its own number in case …

That crazy book lady

Everyone has a story. Mine began with books. In a corner of the playroom in my family's first home was a book case lined with colorful volumes of children's stories - many of them passed down from my much older half-brother. "The Runaway Flying Horse." "The Little Old Man Who Could Not Read." "Leaf Magic." "Walt and Pepper." …