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Watching Ourselves: How Stories Shape What We Notice
8+ hour, 20+ min ago (980+ words) How films, series, anime, and novels can shape attention, deepen self-knowledge, and leave traces we carry back into ordinary life....
Book review: Gathering Days, by Ellie Evelyn Orrell
21+ hour, 12+ min ago (679+ words) ‘Sometimes old traditions are thrown up like dust along a summer road. You glimpse them briefly in the sunbeams…’ This quiet, yet profound book, and one I took great pleasure in reading, is a collection of such moments and memories,…...
TCU Press returns Elmer Kelton?s Living and Writing in West Texas to print September 15
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (227+ words) Fort Worth, Texas -- TCU Press will publish Living and Writing in West Texas: Two Speeches by Elmer Kelton on Tuesday, September 15, 2026, bringing the late author?s own account of his life and craft back into print. The hardcover ($26.95) carries a…...
5 Books to help you get back into reading
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (354+ words) September is National Literacy Month, with International Literacy Day on 8 September 2026 and National Book Week from 5 to 11 September 2026. For book lovers currently in a slump, people who haven’t picked up a book in a while, or those wanting to start…...
The Bookmonger: 'Shape-shifting' tale probes and haunts
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (383+ words) Published 11:00 am Thursday, September 10, 2026 By Barbara Lloyd McMichael “If you spent your whole life collecting legends, why should it come as any surprise when one of them turned the tables and found you?” This question, posed in the opening chapter…...
Hard Day???s Work (abundance) (2024) by Jennifer Ling Datchuk - For Sale
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (218+ words) Hard Day’s Work (abundance) (2024) by Jennifer Ling Datchuk - For Sale Artsy Datchuk’s She Works Hard For the Money and Hard Day’s Work speak to growth and transformation: fruits and vegetables maturing for harvest, and the simultaneous physiological and emotional changes…...
Book review: Signs Among the Stones: A literary journey through C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia by Jem Bloomfield
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (346+ words) Friday 11 September 2026 Rachel Mann reads the third in a series on C. S. Lewis’s children’s tales Signs Among the Stones is the third volume in Bloomfield’s critical sequence, alongside the excellent Paths Through the Snow (about The Lion, The Witch and the…...
BROKEN LAND REVIEW - by Edward Douglas
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (537+ words) BROKEN LAND REVIEW Edward Douglas | Substack The Weekend Warrior Newsletter “Morse gives one of his strongest performances in recent memory, making it a worthwhile look into his character’s world.” The migrant situation in the United States has led to many…...
A New Chapter In a Continuing Story
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (70+ words) Categories: Headline / Front Page / Holidays / Torah September 10, 2026, 2 PM ET The Two Lights of Our Year Every Day Is Rosh Hashanah May it be the sweetest year yet, filled with only revealed blessings and goodness – both physically and spiritually. And may…...
Book of Essays Lifts Up the Beauty of Small Talk
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (573+ words) Small Talk by Joe Keenan, illustrations by Barney Zeitz; $25 at Mermaid Farm or by email from [email protected]. In mid-August of 1987, Joe Keenan was invited by a friend and fellow musician to play at a benefit concert for a young…...