Helen Lowe’s Month of Joy: From the Color Blue to “The End”

“These I have loved:         White plates and cups, clean-gleaming, Ringed with blue lines; and feathery, faery dust; Wet roofs, beneath the lamp-light; the strong crust Of friendly bread; and many-tasting food; Rainbows; and the blue bitter smoke of wood…”     ~ from The Great Lover, Rupert Brooke, 1887-1915   This excerpt from Rupert […]

Month of Joy: A Few Candidates by Mike Reeves-McMillan

Thanks, Skiffy and Fanty, for asking what brings me joy — because now I’m thinking about that, and that’s a good thing. Especially in these times. There are a few candidates. Erin, my spouse of nearly 19 years. Marrying her still ranks as the best decision I ever made, and I’m still astonished sometimes that […]

Month of Joy: La Alegría del Lenguaje by Cassandra Rose Clarke

A year ago, I decided to embark on a not-exactly-new endeavor: teaching myself Spanish. I say not-exactly-new because I had attempted it before with a dubiously-acquired copy of Rosetta Stone, which I used for about a month in 2013 before giving up. My failures with Rosetta Stone hadn’t killed my desire to learn Spanish, though. […]

In the Duke’s Sights: Books of Note for 8/7/15

In the Duke’s Sights returns with a belated book-heavy monster post (no, they won’t normally be this big, but I’ve been lazy, so…).  From space opera to urban fantasy to epic fantasy to steampunk and beyond! Here’s a chunk of the stuff I’ve received in the last couple weeks that I may just have to read…now. […]

The June 2015 Reading List: What were your favorite reads for June?

The title says it all.  We want to know what you read and loved in June, whether you read novels, short stories, comics, or some other written object.  So, what were your favorite reads for June? Leave a comment.  We’ll collect everything you loved in June 2015 and create a mini-reading list!