by Jamie Chavez | Apr 6, 2017 | Books You Might Like
The fox felt the car slow before the boy did, as he felt everything first. Through the pads of his paws, along his spine, in the sensitive whiskers at his wrists. By the vibrations, he learned also that the road had grown coarser. He stretched up from his boy’s lap...
by Jamie Chavez | Mar 26, 2016 | Words & Language
I have said this more than once: I learned a lot from reading books. It led directly to my current vocation, for one thing. But before that, for example, it led to my acquisition of an excellent vocabulary and, I believe, my ability to put that vocabulary to work in a...
by Jamie Chavez | Feb 6, 2016 | The Writing Craft
When I started blogging, I quickly discovered there were some very good blog-writers out there—and sometimes I’d find an article that was so good, there was nothing meaningful I could add. I present those articles on my Short Saturdays. 🙂 This is definitely one of...
by Jamie Chavez | Dec 5, 2015 | Books You Might Like
Since we’ve just been talking about the perfect gift—a book, of course—I figured it was time to rerun my lists of lists for book lovers. I ran this post last year but I’ve got a few more ideas to add to it: For Kids It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas...
by Jamie Chavez | Nov 30, 2015 | Books You Might Like, Miscellany
My parents always had a huge built-in bookcase wherever they lived (my father built them). They were primarily filled with the novels my mother had accumulated in her youth and all sorts of books my folks acquired as a young married couple, including museum exhibition...
