Reading

Brief moments of delightful silence during spring break have summoned my pen to paper; I am drafting a summer reading list. This month we recommend titles to kick off your summer reading list.

There are times you pick up a book that becomes a fast friend you can’t imagine letting go. I haven’t read a book in a while that I couldn’t put down, but I do so love that feeling. Literary Mama contributors shared what they’re reading, which might just enchant you enough to become your next best friend.

I used to fantasize that if I ever met Nora Ephron, I’d invite her to supper, at which she would taste my meatballs and declare me her new best friend. I pleased to report after laughing and crying my way through Delia Ephron’s Sister Mother Husband Dog: (Etc.), I have a new Ephron to invite to my table.

A new year tends to make me want to revisit Verlyn Klinkenborg’s The Rural Life. Organized by months, January through December, it’s a collection of small meditations on life in the world—a world that those who lived in the United States 100 years ago could recognize, the one that includes pigs, bees, potatoes, horses.

December is such a busy month for most of us, a book might well struggle to get a word in edgewise.

I’m beginning to think that in my case, a regular infusion of fiction is required for both psychological and social health.

This reading list is a wonderful place to find lively reviews of newly released and freshly read books. Sometimes, however, what we are now reading is only new to us.

A sampling of blog posts from Literary Mama editors and friends … each month, I share some blog posts that spoke to me in recent weeks. This month, as all the gorgeousness of autumn rolls in, I’ve been especially taken by blogs that combine reflections on motherhood with photography. Perhaps because we here at Literary Mama are also […]

A sampling of blog posts from Literary Mama editors and friends

A sampling of blog posts from Literary Mama editors and friends

The winners of the last two drawings  of our Summer Lineup are Sara, Amanda, and Melodie. Sara will receive a copy of . Amanda will receive a copy of . Melodie will receive a copy of  . Thanks to all for participating!