I’m mere hours from hopping on a flight with my sister to Salt Lake City, Utah. We’re going to Dragonsteel Nexus 2024, Brandon Sanderson’s yearly convention! This event just so happens to begin two days after my sixth year straight of reading from a book every single day—the timing just … Continue reading →

Five years ago, on December 3, 2018, I made a decision. That decision was to make reading a habit. More specifically, I decided that I would read every single day for a year. Rain or shine. Sick or well. Two hours or 15 minutes. I would read from a book … Continue reading →

Three years ago, I made a promise to myself. I would read something every day. At the time, it was just a loosely-defined goal. I could not remember if I had a stopping point in mind, such as “do this for one year.” But, the goal eventually morphed into a … Continue reading →

PRINCE Raoden of Arelon awoke early that morning, completely unaware that he had been damned for all eternity. What a way to start a novel. As a reader, I don’t think about the first words of a book when I first dive in. Ultimately, they’re not that important. It’s just … Continue reading →

In that brief time between, the night had been a fragrant puzzle, a time when, looking up at the star-strewn sky and listening to the breeze that brought such intoxicating smells, you felt close to the heartbeat of the universe, to love and life. It seemed you would be forever … Continue reading →

If there had been some tiny bead present in the brain of all humans, that had told each other, They are like you; that had drawn some thin silk thread of empathy, person to person, in a planet-wide net—what might then have happened? Would there have been the same wars, … Continue reading →

Kings, they explained, do not walk like beggars for hundreds of miles. My response was that if a beggar could manage the feat, then why not a king? Did they think me less capable than a beggar? A couple of years back, I picked up a paperback copy of The … Continue reading →

The gods made the earth for all men t’ share. Only when the kings come with their crowns and steel swords, they claimed it was all theirs. My trees, they said, you can’t eat them apples. My stream, you can’t fish here. My wood, you’re not t’ hunt. My earth, … Continue reading →

What a ride. I began my Mistborn journey at the end of this past December. In its review gave the first book credit for getting me back into the habit of turning the page rather than turning the channel. Now that I’ve finished the final book in the trilogy, The … Continue reading →

“Is this the be-all and end-all of your ambition? What are you that this little corner of the great world is all you want?” I’d had Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern series on my to-read list for a while. I wasn’t sure that I wanted to jump into a dragon-related … Continue reading →