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Feeling all the feels: Love, Actually is holiday gold

Ahhh, Christmas … that joyful time of year when my family runs for cover.  Is it Christmas baking? The prolific festive decorating of every surface? The incessant…
By Catherine Clark
how to encourage kids reading

5 tips to encourage your children to read

Looking at her computer, our family doctor asks, “Do you read together?” She turns toward us, then smiles. “Never mind, I see you have a book with you right no…
By Jennifer Madigan
how to encourage kids reading
A review of Girls, Interrupted: How Pop Culture Is Failing Women

A review of Girls, Interrupted: How Pop Culture Is Failing Women — Lisa Whittington-Hill

I’ve been looking forward to reading this book for a very long time — ever since I first caught wind of the fact that Lisa Whittington-Hill was writing it. I’d read — and…
By Ann Douglas
A review of Girls, Interrupted: How Pop Culture Is Failing Women

Confessions of a vintage advice book connoisseur: introducing our partnership with bestselling author Ann Douglas 

It's a gorgeous sunny day and I’m sitting out here on the front porch, flipping through vintage advice books.  It’s not like me to take an afternoon off in the mi…
By Ann Douglas

So, you want to write a novel

It was in June of 2019 that I decided the time had come to work on a novel that had lived in the back of my mind for years. I was maybe about one-third of the way down to…
By Mary Taggart