Maureen is our Needle and Thread: Stitching for Literacy 2011 Bookmark Challenge Super Model. As with beauty pageant participants, Maureen has a platform which she aims to promote while serving her term […]
Super Mo’s Family Reading and Stitching
S4L Book Club – The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
Mma Ramotswe becomes a private detective without any formal or even informal training. She does buy a manual on how to be a detective, which I found pretty funny. What do you […]
Speed Reading, Reading Better
Bookmark by Super Mo. Do any of you have experience with speed reading? I’ve always dismissed it as rather silly and unnecessary, thinking it might turn a peaceful relaxing activity into something […]
S4L Book Club – The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
While reading Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice recently, I noted some similarities between her writing and Alexander McCall Smith’s. Both write books that focus on people more than events and deal with […]
It Takes Just One
Besides “how do I finish my bookmarks,” another question I often hear is “how can I get involved?” Just as there are a gazillion answers to the first question, there are a […]
Lines We Love
The first three paragraphs of The Cricket on the Hearth, by Charles Dickens, may be Mike’s all-time favorite story opening. It’s one of the stories from our The Complete Christmas Stories of […]
