-
Join 2,955 other subscribers
Jeff’s Books
This slideshow requires JavaScript.
Joselyn’s Books
This slideshow requires JavaScript.
Patricia’s Books
This slideshow requires JavaScript.
Angela’s Books
This slideshow requires JavaScript.
Elaine’s Books
This slideshow requires JavaScript.
Categories
-
Recent Posts
Archives
Meta
Category Archives: libraries
Repeat, Read, Repeat
It’s Free Week and I want to revisit something that although I have addressed in the past, it has come up a few times quite recently here on 4F,1H: You can’t judge books by their TV shows or movies, (and … Continue reading
Posted in advice, Anthologies, audiobooks, authors, blogging, book review, book series, Books, characters, chicken, collections, contemporary, cozy mystery, descriptions, free week, libraries, Miscellaneous, movies, novels, Patricia Kiyono, protagonists, Random thoughts, reading, reading preferences, series, Tonette Joyce, TV, TV series, writers
Tagged Agatha Raisin, Changing books for movies, changing books for TV, Forrest Gump, Hamish Macbeth, M.C.Beaton, OPTIONING written works, Rosie Dunne, The Poor Relations, The Time Traveler's Wife, translating books to movies, translating books to TV, Writing for movies, Writing for TV, Writing Movies for Fun and Profit
5 Comments
Like a Kid Again
When I proposed this week’s topic “Tell us about books that you have introduced to by your children/grandchildren”, it was because we had already touched upon just about every angle related to books we loved as children, and I realized … Continue reading
Posted in advice, art, audiobooks, authors, autobiographies, awards, book covers, book review, book series, characters, childhood, Children's books, classics, e-books, experiences, Family, fantasy, favorites, HEA/HFN, historical, history, honors, inspiration, libraries, Life, memories, natural disasters, novels, pets, plots, publishing, reading, series, teaching, Tonette Joyce, using talents, writers, YA
Tagged Artimus Fowl, Cat Heaven, Click Clack Cows That Type, Dear Mrs.LaRue, Harry Potter, Our Tree Named Steve, Percy Jackson., Reading Children's books, Septimus Heap, The Cheese Touch, The Wimpy Kid, Todhunter Moon, Tomie De Paola
7 Comments
Books introduced to me by a child or grandchild
Only one that I can recall… but it’s a doozy By Jeff Salter When I first saw this topic, I drew a total blank. As best I can remember, as my kids were growing up, it was me and my … Continue reading
Posted in authors, Books, favorite books, Jeff Salter, libraries, Miscellaneous
Tagged A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
10 Comments
Thou Shalt Not…
“If you could have been the original author of any book, what would it have been and why?” I wracked my brain for a while on this one. I am without any question a bona fide bibliophile. I literally own … Continue reading
Posted in audiobooks, author's life, authors, book series, Books, characters, collections, creating scenes, decisions, dialogue, experiences, favorites, goals, imagination, inspiration, libraries, Life, memories, novels, phrases, plots, Random thoughts, reading, Tonette Joyce, What if, writers, writing, writing from experiences
Tagged Billy Wilder, Chronicles of Narnia, John Ford, Liane Moriarty, Lord of the Rings, Rachel Joyce, Sarah Ballance's "Hawthorne", Sarahy Ballance, Stephen Spielberg
6 Comments
“UPLIFTING” Book
This week we are discussing books that we have wanted to read, but for some reason have never gotten to them. WHERE DO I START? Take one look at all of the books around my house and you will know … Continue reading
Posted in authors, big plans, book review, decisions, experiences, favorites, historical, hobbies, imagination, libraries, Life, memories, movies, publishing, reading, reviews, time management, Tonette Joyce, writers, youth
Tagged Anna Karenina, Gladys Aylworth, Leo Tolstoy's "Resurrection"", magazine serials, personal libraries, TBR list, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, The Small Woman, War and Peace
4 Comments