Authorpalooza – It’s a Party When More than 30 Utah Authors Get Together

On Saturday I went to Authorpalooza hosted by a local Barnes and Noble.  So I seriously thought that I had a handle on who our Utah authors are but I think I gasped when I saw who would be signing.  I’ll fully admit that I was not familiar with many of them although plenty of [...]

We Are the Ship, The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson

Please forgive my rambling for a bit.  Let me start off by saying that I know NOTHING about baseball.  My only experience with the sport is when I lived in Chicago I went to a Sox game once and when I was in my early twenties I was playing a game of softball (not baseball [...]

New York Times Bestsellers – February 7th

The New York Times Bestseller List
February 7th, 2010
Hardcover Fiction

THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s ­Mississippi.
THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown.  Robert Langdon among the Masons.
KISSER, by Stuart Woods. Stone Barrington, the New York cop turned lawyer, pursues a case of financial fraud on the Upper East [...]

Leaving Gee’s Bend by Irene Latham

In Leaving Gee’s Bend by Irene Latham, ten-year-old Ludelphia Bennett only knows one way of life and that is sharecropping and the people in her small town.  In fact, she’s never left the town at all or explored the surrounding communities.
Life is relatively simple and happy but not without its sorrow as her mother loses [...]

When I’m Not Reading . . .

. . .  I can be found playing basketball on Thursday nights.

Well, it would have been nice if I had a picture of myself with the ball, but such is life.
I loved playing basketball in junior high and high school (I was never on any teams except for church) and it’s always been my sport [...]