Book-A-Month Challenge: Campfire Stories
June’s Book-A-Month Reading Prompt: Read a Story For the Campfire– June is a month of nights beneath the stars, making it a wonderful time for stories meant to be told […]
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Book Review: Kingdom Above the Cloud
“Not so long ago—a little less than fifty years ago—everyone lived above the clouds on the squat Mount Lemuel to the northeast of their valley. Adwin made that mountain and […]
Read and Repeat: Three Benefits of Rereading Books
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.” ― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature In the realm of bookworms there reside two […]
The Making of Us, Part 2: Unraveling Calling and Identity
“The Celtic idea of pilgrimage was different. . .They set out directionless into the wild or let their coracles drift wherever the currents took them. Pilgrimage for the Celt was […]
Book-A-Month Challenge–May: Read Internationally
The LitWyrm Book-a-Month Challenge prompt for the month of May is to read internationally. Find a book written by a contemporary author of a different nationality than you. (For example, […]
As Kingfishers Catch Fire: Going Beyond Inscape
As Kingfishers Catch Fire By Gerard Manley Hopkins As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each […]
The Bear and the Nightingale: Fear as a Fatal Flaw
“The storm is coming, and the frost will be as nothing beside it. Courage will save you. If your people are afraid, then they are lost.” –The Bear and the […]
The Making of Us Part 1: Inevitable Imperfection
“Through exaggerated biographies and airbrushed news feeds, our heroes often come to us without stain or crease–glorious, victorious, and flaw-free. Or else we see them on a stage with their […]