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Stephanie Ann Patka Mahoney
"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." - Benjamin Franklin
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2025: A Brand New Year for Reading and not reading
Mark Twain Reading in a chair. Image courtesy of Fine Art Storehouse. www.fineartstorehouse.com “I haven't any right to criticize books,...
Jan 97 min read


2024: Reading, reading and listen-reading
“Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the...
Jan 28, 202414 min read


Reading in 2023
“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...
Jan 1, 20237 min read


Reading in 2022
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...
Jan 7, 20224 min read


2021's List of Literature
“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...
Sep 21, 20214 min read


The Big Read(ing) Challenge
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...
Sep 16, 20219 min read


In 2019, I read some books
Groucho Marx “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” ―...
Sep 16, 20213 min read


How many books can you read in a year?
Determining how many books one can read within a year will inevitably be met with questions about the parameters in which one encounters...
Sep 16, 20212 min read
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