Mark Twain Reading in a chair. Image courtesy of Fine Art Storehouse. www.fineartstorehouse.com “I haven't any right to criticize books,...

“Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the...

“So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the...

Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story. - J.R.R. Tolkien J. R. R. Tolkien The...

I've struggled with this blog-idea for years. I love the idea of writing every day. I also love to write. The idea of getting ideas down...

“People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of...

A List of the best movies that you should see before you die.

According to List Challenges , the BBC did this survey back in 2003 called "The Big Read" and asked the British public to vote on the...

Groucho Marx “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” ―...

Determining how many books one can read within a year will inevitably be met with questions about the parameters in which one encounters...

The most widely sold and arguably most impactful books that has ever been published in the history of mankind is the Bible. The story of...

NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month has taken place every November since 1999. The challenge is simple: write 50,000 words in 30...

So, after much deliberation about writing down a bucket list at age 36 (which you can read about here), I finally made a plan to complete...

I have this phrase that I say when I see something cool: “Oh! That’s awesome- I should add that to my bucket list!” Which is great,...

Tomorrow is my 35th birthday, and I'm going to level with you: the mental prep for it wasn't going well at all. Now, to be clear, I'm the...