Literary Reflections

I know that when my baby is sleeping for ten minutes or two hours and I can steal a few moments away, I can sit down and do what I’ve…

Cottontail’s mothering work has transformed her into the ideal candidate for her dream job, not the kind of mush-brained, overtired, and unconfident person that I felt I’d become after a…

Driving my kids home from school one day, I told them about the writing challenge. “I want to do it,” my newly minted teenager said. In my mind I said,…

In this month’s Essential Reading, we’re proving that good things do indeed come in small packages by highlighting novellas, chapbooks, poetry, and short story collections.

In order to celebrate Women’s History Month, we’re recommending books about feminism in this month’s Essential Reading roundup.

How ironic. The teacher-librarian’s daughter doesn’t read.

For this month’s Essential Reading, we’ve compiled a list of book-to-screen adaptations and are trying to answer the age-old question: is the book always better than the movie?

Two years have passed since my son and daughter departed for college, emptying my nest. I watch these adult siblings now weaving their individual lives and look for threads that…

Happy New Year from all of us at Literary Mama! This month, we are featuring books that help us find inspiration and those that help us achieve our goals.

About a third of the way through a book, I would stop and flip to the end. Not to the last page of the story, spoiler-style, but rather all the…

I want too much. I shouldn’t have come on this research trip with a five-month-old baby.