2016 is turning out to be one of the best reading years I’ve had in some time. Creating a physical TBR shelf (what I call my TBR Action Center) has been working out very well. Here’s a brief rehash of last… Read More ›
Ernest Hemingway
Road trip with audiobooks that are currently on my TBR Action Center
Road trip! I’m heading down to Annapolis, MD this morning, Washington, D. C. Friday morning, and then up to Mystic, CT Friday afternoon. How many hours do you think it’ll take to drive from D.C. to Mystic on the Friday… Read More ›
The Morgan Library and Hemingway Exhibit, Manhattan, NYC
My Mom visited from Chicago a couple weeks ago and we went to check out the Hemingway exhibit at the Morgan Library and Museum in Manhattan. I was excited to finally visit the Morgan Library. I first learned about Pierpont… Read More ›
Cicero, IL: Birthplace of Ernest Hemingway?
Ernest Hemingway. Where was he born?If your answer is Oak Park, IL, you’d be wrong. At least according to the town of Cicero, IL.Check it out: Picture taken on 11/3/2012 The first time I noticed Cicero, IL claiming ownership of… Read More ›
Author Event Recap: Paula McLain
Paula McLain spoke at Ashton Place in Willowsprings, IL on Thursday May 3, 2012 at 7pm. Her talk was the grand finale of The Big Read which chose her novel, The Paris Wife, as its community read for 2012. The… Read More ›
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
The Paris Wife was the last big book that we ran out of at Borders. Or at least that’s how I remember it. My store got regular replenishment of it in for a while after its initial release in February… Read More ›
The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway
The Garden of EdenErnest HemingwayScribner, 1986ISBN: 978-0-684-80452-1 Source: bought it Instead of burning through all of the works of a writer I admire–particularly the dead ones–I try to hold back and let myself come to them here and there because… Read More ›
A Visit to Hemingway’s House in Key West
Despite suffering through reading and discussing and writing about The Old Man and The Sea for what seemed like weeks and weeks in high school, I became a fan of Hemingway in my early 20s. It was in my early… Read More ›