Today is the first Saturday in April, the month I most associate with Paris. I’m sure it’s at least partly because the Cole Porter song “I love Paris in the springtime” has wended its way into our culture, it’s but also because my vacation in Paris several years ago took place during April. There were … Continue reading Saturdays @ the South: Wanderlust – Paris
In the ruminations about reading resolutions and challenges appearing here over the past two weeks was a link to a counterpoint article from the blog Broke by Books in which the blogger makes many great points, but when she talks about cookbooks (albeit lovingly) she says “I didn’t feel like I could legitimately say I … Continue reading Saturdays @ the South: Cookbooks Count As Reading!
Last week, I introduced several guided reading challenge possibilities for those of you who wanted to make a resolution to read in 2016. Our wonderful primary blog contributor Arabella also introduced the concept of Hermitage Week. Personally, my reading hermitage runs the entire month of January, instead of just one week, thus my blanket fort … Continue reading Saturdays @ the South: Multi-tasking with your Reading Resolutions
With the bulk of the holidays over and the ball getting ready to drop on another year gone by, thoughts inevitably turn towards resolutions. I tend to believe that the resolutions made accompanied by champagne on the 31st (or when you’re drunk from sleepiness as you fight to stay awake until midnight) tend not to be the … Continue reading Saturdays @ the South: On Resolving to Read
Today is the last day of Banned Books Week, which we’ve been celebrating here on the blog daily, in various ways and from various perspectives because it is a broad topic to consider. You would think that since the South kicked off the Banned Books Week-bonanza last week that I would have something to say … Continue reading Saturdays @ the South: Comfort Reads
Whenever someone discusses Fairy Tales, this is the quote that always jumps to my mind. Last weekend, I read an interesting post on Book Riot that got me thinking about it again. In the post, Morgan Jerkins talked about sanitizing fairy tales and how vehicles like Disney and publishers often “clean up” a story to make … Continue reading Saturdays @ the South: On Reading Fairy Tales