Please join me in welcoming Melinda McGuire, author of Josephine: Red Dirt and Whiskey, to the blog today! I have been so anxious to share her guest post with you! She made me “homesick,” for lack of a better word, for my younger days and endless, hot Saturdays. I’m not usually a person who lives Continue Reading…
So, since it’s Valentine’s Day and all, it’s time to feature a character crush. This time, it’s Rhett Butler. I know, how predictable can I be, right? But there’s a reason that so many women love this man. Rhett. From the first time he appears on the page, I think my eye was drawn to Continue Reading…
Please welcome Taylor M. Polites, author of The Rebel Wife, which was just released on Tuesday!
One piece of Huntsville, Alabama that I have always carried with me is the beautiful, antebellum […]
I was fortunate to see Olivia deBelle Byrd speak at the Decatur Book Festival in 2010 and I just loved listening to her stories. She is very charming and funny and she graciously agreed to guest post on the blog today! Please welcome her! SOUTHERN FUNERALS OR HE JUST WOKE UP DEAD Funerals in the Continue Reading…
Today, please welcome author Susan Kelly to The Introverted Reader. She’s a fellow North Carolinian! As a senior in boarding school, in the very Southern city of Richmond, Virginia, I took a course titled “Southern Fiction,” and, as my teacher later described it, “fell into a hole,” which she intended as a high compliment. The Continue Reading…
I’ve decided to host one more challenge, the Books in Translation Reading Challenge. I think this one’s pretty self-explanatory. The goal is to read translations of books. They don’t have to be in English; whatever language(s) you’re comfortable reading in is good. You can read any genre and any age range. Crossovers with other challenges Continue Reading…
Today I welcome Kathryn Lively, author of Little Flowers, to the blog for the first post in my new Saturdays in the South feature! Hello, and thank you for joining me today. My name is Kathryn Lively and I guess you can say I am a Southerner. I have lived in the South all of Continue Reading…
I wasn’t sure if I was going to host this challenge again. I just don’t feel that I read enough non-fiction to be hosting it, but since I still don’t see anyone hosting a general non-fiction challenge, it’s once more into the breach for me! The levels last year seemed to be entirely too easy for some of you, so I’ve revamped […]
I was pleasantly surprised by how much I loved Major Pettigrew from the book by Helen Simonson. I don’t always do well with military types. I look all meek and mild, but the minute I’m given anything that even remotely resembles an order, I dig in my heels. That’s not really the best way to Continue Reading…
Deryn Sharp is one of the main characters in the Leviathan series by Scott Westerfeld. I’ve only read the first two. She’s about 15 or 16 and she’s one of those characters who are perennial favorites among female readers–a girl disguised as a boy. I wonder why we do like them so much? But that’s Continue Reading…
Marianne Engel is the main character from The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson. It’s been a while since I read this, so my details might be off, but I’ll definitely be true to the spirit of Marianne. Marianne at first comes across as a crazy lady. Not in any kind of a dangerous way, but in Continue Reading…