Super Mo, our Needle and Thread: Stitching for Literacy 2011 Bookmark Challenge Super Model dons a pair of moon bookmark earrings. Love that look! Last week, I shared Mike’s favorite novel opening […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Speaking of Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni…how did you feel about his full name being used all the time? Did you like it, or did it bug you? Because Mike was reading aloud, it […]