by Jamie Chavez | Jun 7, 2014 | Miscellany, The Arts & Media
Because sometimes you just need to have a little visual stimulation, here’s a collection of photographs of street art and murals from around the world … all on the theme of books and reading. As the person who collected them notes, these murals all show traditional...
by Jamie Chavez | Mar 8, 2014 | Creativity, The Arts & Media
Many of us are still all caught up in winter’s last gasp, so perhaps a little inspiration is what we all need to keep going. A few months ago I stumbled on a post from the Zen Pencils website—a weekly cartoon strip featuring inspirational quotes. “Buy the ticket,”...
by Jamie Chavez | Jan 9, 2014 | Books You Might Like
I read thirty-three* books for pleasure in 2012—and at the end of the year I boiled it all down to One Favorite Book, difficult though that was. I read fifty-four in 2013, and most of them were titles I’d happily recommend, for one reason or another. I blogged about...
by Jamie Chavez | Jan 4, 2014 | Books You Might Like, The Writing Craft
I’m making a suggested reading list for a well-educated, well-read friend who has never been able to “get in” to fiction … but has declared her desire to do so. I’ve already decided on the first book: A Virtuous Woman, by Kaye Gibbons. I’ve read it several times,...
by Jamie Chavez | Sep 26, 2013 | Miscellany, The Book Biz
In my Monday post I mentioned a little maxim the Boy (and I) heard repeatedly when he declared his intent to major in music. Don’t do it unless you can’t imagine doing anything else, they said. This got a lot of comment. One of my Facebook friends said, “This lesson...
