by Brandy Heineman | Jun 18, 2019 | Blog, Reading
Suspension of disbelief… what and why When I was in college, I considered myself an avid reader even though I probably only read something like 3-5 books for leisure per year at the time. Of course, those tended to be 800 page tomes, since, as previously...
by Brandy Heineman | Jun 7, 2019 | Blog, Reading
Good times with good friends and good books Today’s Bookish Memory is less about Wild Montana Skies, which I haven’t actually read yet, and more about book reviewer and friend Carrie Schmidt of ReadingIsMySuperPower.org! I first met Carrie through...
by Brandy Heineman | May 17, 2019 | Blog, Reading
Best. Assignment. Ever. My fifth grade teacher assigned our class to read The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright. This, to me, was like being offered dessert for breakfast. Um, yes please. It’s a suspenseful mystery, and you know how that goes. Once...
by Brandy Heineman | May 3, 2019 | Blog, Reading
Totally Pressed In 2014, I was privileged to have a press pass to the International Christian Retail Show, the annual trade show of the Christian Booksellers Association. It was held at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, but even though I live within...
by Brandy Heineman | Jan 15, 2019 | Blog, Reading
It’s still flu season. Let’s talk about The Stand by Stephen King. First off, I am a very gentle reader. I seldom write in my books. No broken spines, no dogeared pages (usually, although I have no quarrel with those who do). I try to keep my books in good...
by Brandy Heineman | Jan 3, 2019 | Blog, Reading
Happy New Year! This post about John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, and the accompanying Journal of a Novel, is a little different from some of the other bookish memories I’ve shared so far, in that I still haven’t read Journal of a Novel (as you’ll...
