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 […]
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The Book Thief: Ugly and Beautiful
“The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless ability to be in the right place at the right time. The consequence […]
Book-A-Month Challenge: Feburary Reading Prompt
Our Reading Prompt for February is: Read About Time and Its Complications–In honor of Leap Day, find a book that deals with the passage of time in unique way. To […]
The Silmarillion: Truth in the Secondary World of Middle Earth
“Probably every writer making a secondary world, every sub-creator, wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality . . . The […]
A Book A Month: The LitWyrm 2020 Reading Challenge
This week, I’ve been thinking about how I want to add a little more variety to my reading diet. What I came up with is a 2020 reading challenge for […]
C.S. Lewis’s “The Dark Tower” and the Appeal of Unfinished Works
There is something exciting about reading an unfinished work; a certain charm in observing the fledgling thought of a writer, even if we are destined to never see the full […]
Rediscovering Life’s Color through Picture Books
My favorite book currently is The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by William Joyce. If you go and look it up, you will quickly discover that it is, […]