Way back in 1977, I wrote a fan letter to a favorite author of mine asking her when the next book in her series would be out. An embarrassingly committed bookworm, I'd plowed through all 14 books in the Beany Malone series and I wanted to know when Lenora Mattingly Weber would be coming out [...]
My mother in-law bought me a T-shirt many years ago and I'm wearing it now. "I'd rather be reading," it says. And, I would. She bought it to celebrate our shared love of books and also because she was waging a sweet little "You've Got Mail" type protest in support of her local bookstore, which [...]