Most of us have had access to the internet less than 20 years. Our engagement with it varies, of course. You can allow it to inundate your life and risk internet addiction (Yes, there are those who now consider this a disease). You can be comfortable with it—as most young people below 30 are—and use it only as much as you need to. Or, you … Continue reading Steve Costello—Harnessing the Power of the Internet
Goodreads is made for the likes of Margaret Faria. Margaret (Literary Chanteuse) is one of the 100 best reviewers on Goodreads. What does it take to be on a list such as the best 100? Look at these numbers and be impressed, like I was: Over the course of her 33 months membership in Goodreads, she’s rated (rated, mind you, not just read), 970 books. … Continue reading A Day in the Life of Margaret Faria, Chanteuse, Mother, Book Lover
The self-confidence of youth—when everything is ahead of you to explore, to taste, and to conquer, how could you not embrace life? Devour it even? Eli Adelholm seems to me to be doing just that. She is earnest, enthusiastic, self-assured, and passionate about her current interests. Just look at all the things she does—a budding writer, a reader with a book blog devoted to reviewing … Continue reading Eli Adelholm: Creating Her World
Ah, romance! It makes us dream, smile, glow, sigh, tingle, burn, cry, cringe, despair, joyous, jealous, fearful, angry. Is there any other human experience that elicits such a range or polarity of emotions? And yet, rather too many of us, modern sophisticates, do not or would not own up to being romantic or at least believing so unconditionally in romance. Perhaps, that is because our … Continue reading Thoroughly Engaged: Xenia Allen
Escape Into Reality 