Reading Life
Find out what’s going on in my reading life.
The Book Next Door: Returning to Fiction
Photo credit: storyforcepr.com Nonfiction is my home department. Until recently, I rarely ventured out of this genre, which admittedly, was informed by the misguided belief that I had ‘graduated’ from my fiction-filled youth. Certainly, a lot of the...
Confession of a Bookaholic
I buy books at a faster rate than I read. It’s a chronic condition, really. Every time I finish a book, my optimism balloons to a size large enough to eclipse the fact that I have a day job. Sometimes I’m envious of the security guy at my office who seems to be...
A Book Can Change Your Life
A book can change your life. One encounter, leading to a discovery of a new world, then inspiring action in real life.
What If: Newest Addition to Our Nerdy Home
As the self-designated curator of the Elia-Loi library, I added Randall Munroe’s What If to our collection using the promotional credit I received from Amazon Prime Day. The full title is What If: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions. Awesome....
9 Feeds to Follow If You Love Reading
Photo credit: dryicons If you love books and book reviews, these websites are excellent resources to find new reading materials. The New York Times > Books I love the NYT! More often than not, I get that satisfied feeling after reading its...
Book Trail: Beloved
Beloved by Toni Morrison How I Came Across the Title Some time last year, I saw this Toni Morrison’s interview with Stephen Colbert (I miss Colbert!). She said something amazing. After 20-something years, she read Beloved again a few weeks before the interview....
Book Trail: Thinking, Fast and Slow
How I Came Across the Title The real question is, How could I not come across Thinking, Fast and Slow? The book was displayed wherever books were sold when it came out in 2011. I was always tempted to buy it due to its very intriguing title, but that year was when I...
Why Christians Should Read
This post was featured in Joseph Nally's blog last year. When you open the front cover of a book, you symbolically open a door to your mind. You are letting the author of that book to enter your being and make changes there. Reading is a form of...
The Perfect Sentence
Photo credit: Designed by Freepik Every writer, I dare say, is in search for the perfect sentence—words stringed with meaning and laced with beauty. It is a sentence that creates a certain mystical air by words both written and implied. To a reader, such...
My Bookstore and Me
The story of my bookstore and me, once upon a summer. A reflection on buying books and its plethora of options.
Gifted Voice
In the wake of the South Carolina shooting, NPR broadcasted several short interviews with those who personally knew Rev. Clementa Pinckney. The one thing they kept on mentioning was his voice—how wonderful and impactful his voice was. Curious, I looked up a...
I Live Now
The recent happenings and discussions surrounding race relations in America have prompted me to return to an old blog post from 3 years ago, If I Lived Then. It was penned after digesting a series of historical books, on World War II, on the British abolitionist...