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Nostalgia Lane: Memories of Books

I was just wondering the other day how much do we retain of the books we really super deliciously love. My memory’s gotten completely terrible as I get older. I was trying to come up for an idea for a Nostalgia Lane post, whereby I usually talk about a specific book or author or situation [...]

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Nostalgia Lane: My Earliest Book Memory Yet

Warning – sappy times ahead! I was tooling around in the ‘ole cranium for Nostalgia Lane post ideas, thinking Self, surely you’ve not exhausted all your book reading inspiration ideas. I posted the thought on Twitter earlier this week and a very helpful response came back to me from Author Guy. And that triggered it. [...]

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Nostalgia Lane: Jane Yolen’s White Jenna

As a much younger reader, I wasn’t the sort that properly appreciated what I read. I’d blame it on being a young kid (you know, that’s just kids for ya…but actually that’s insulting to kids who DO wholly appreciate books) I would enjoy books, immensely so with some, but I don’t think I adequately appreciated [...]

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Nostalgia Lane: Guest Kristen Howe Shares Some Mystery

Normally this place is all about me and my reading past, present and future, but I decided a few weeks ago to open the stage to guests on some of my recurring post themes and the first one is Kristen Howe, who I met via Twitter. Kristen is here today to share with us a [...]

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