Alas, dear readers, sometimes things just don’t go as planned. Sometimes it’s blog posts, sometimes it’s life in general and sometimes it’s books. Readers, I’ve been in a book slump lately. This is different from not having the time to read or just not being able to. I’ve been reading, but I haven’t been enjoying very much … Continue reading Saturdays @ the South: Another Bibliophile Confession
Spoiler alert!! I pre-read the endings of books. Yup, that’s right, with many of the books I read, I flip to the back of the book to get a sense of the ending, often before I’ve finished the first 50 pages. Sometimes it’s the last chapter, sometimes only the last page or two, but book … Continue reading Saturdays @ the South: A Bibliophile Confession on Book Anxiety
Last week, I waxed about on and took a walk down memory lane over Susie Derkins because she was the first female character I encountered in my young reading life that was complex and relatable. In reflecting over last week’s post, I also thought it was significant that some of the most memorable of my … Continue reading Saturdays @ the South: A Bibliophile Confession Gets Graphic
So, having waxed lyrical about the television show Lucifer and the graphic novels that inspired the show, I decided it was high time that I put my proverbial money where my proverbial mouth is…and read a graphic novel. I chose, not surprisingly, Lucifer: Book One.* Though the character of Lucifer was created by Neil Gaiman in his Sandman comics, … Continue reading Bibliophile Confessions: It’s Not You, It’s Me…
Psst…Are you alone? I have a secret to tell you. Come closer… Closer… I need to whisper this one. Are you ready for this? Here goes: I’ve never read Harry Potter. Seriously, any of them. I know, I know. It’s become a beloved classic not just for children, but for adults, too. This is one … Continue reading A(nother) Saturdays @ the South Bibliophile Confession: Unread Books
I’m guessing by now that readers of Free For All recognize that we here at the blog love books, and reading and clearly, we love talking about books. For a while (OK, still, but we’ve managed to control ourselves recently) blogger-in-chief Arabella and I couldn’t stop talking about Susanna Clarke’s wonderfully magical tome, Jonathan Strange … Continue reading A Saturdays @ the South Bibliophile Confession: When book lovers don’t love your book back…
There are tropes in literature that every reader loves…and hates. “Tropes” are the very common and recurring themes in literature that help us, as a species that loves categorization and patterns, keep stories straight in our heads. Tropes let us know, essentially, what happens in the course of the story, and define several rules for the … Continue reading Bibliophile Confessions…On Love Triangles