Kate Dyer-Seeley  

 It’s time for a trip to the library, your favorite bookstore, or both this weekend.  Next week, May 12-18th, is Reading Is Fun Week.  The event, founded by RIF in 1979, began as a way to encourage and promote children to read throughout summer vacation.  My entire summer vacation revolved around reading when I was a child.  In my [...]

I recently discovered a new way to reduce my reading imprint: Eco-Libris.  A genius of an idea, at Eco-Libris they plant a tree for every book you read in a developing nation.  Since I live within ten minutes of Powell’s Books I feel less guilty about my book purchases since they eventually end up back on the [...]

Okay so since I’m not yet published, my thoughts on this subject are somewhat hypothetical, but come on J.K. suing your biggest fan–it just doesn’t make sense.  For anyone who isn’t a Potter-head you can can get up to speed on the lawsuit here or here.  I totally understand suing a fan who drives by your house at [...]

I watched The Jane Austen Book Club last weekend.  I read the book years ago, and loved it.  Sometimes I worry about movie adaptations of books I really love (with the exception of any BBC version of Austen), but this didn’t disappoint.  Emily Blunt was fantastic as Prudie.  I’d forgotten how many Ursula Le Guin references there are in the book, and subsequently the [...]

  Voting is open for the 2008 Children’s Choice Book Awards.  Kids get to vote for their favorites online.  The only drawback is the nominees are pulled from bestseller lists, which in our family meant that Luke demanded to know why Flat Stanley (his current favorite) wasn’t on the list.   

Admit it, all of us have fantasized at one point or another about seeing our name in lights. Here’s the question of the day: have you dreamed about your name in Peanut Butter and Jelly? Luke’s best buddy, Nate the Great, sent us a picture of his lunch last week which was Luke’s name cutout [...]

In headlines this morning there is yet another author who has admitted to fabricating a memoir.  You can read the full feature here. Having worked painstakingly on my memoir for the last year, with intent focus on having it read like fiction, it’s odd that there have been a number of high profile books making [...]

  RIF is announcing a new challenge this month.  They’re inviting parents, and kids of all ages to join their “Read with Kids Challenge” in an attempt to log one million minutes of reading in the months of March, April, and May.  Participants will be entered in a drawing for a family vacation to Walt Disney World.  Visit their [...]

Thanks to one of my girlfriends for passing on the best site:  goodreads.com  I must share, although I’m sure I’m behind the times, and it’s already been front page news.  At Good Reads you can exchange book reviews, “to-read” lists, and so much more with your friends.  This is going to make chosing our book club [...]

President Bush is up to his old antics, slashing funding, this time to Reading is Fundamental (RIF). I’m sure I’m on a list, or maybe multiple lists with how much I’ve been emailing and phoning my congressional representatives as of late. Usually I’m urging them to act on issues related to Alzheimer’s disease, but today [...]