books

  • The Books That Shaped My Life: From Avalon to Faulkner (A Very Beth-ISH Reading List)

    The Books That Shaped My Life: From Avalon to Faulkner (A Very Beth-ISH Reading List)

    A friend’s podcast got me thinking about the books that shaped me – the fantasy that gave me a new perspective as a bullied teen, the sci‑fi epic that opened my imagination, and the Faulkner novel that hit with emotional force and felt familiar and true. This isn’t a complete list, just the ones that…

  • A Year in Review: The Book Edition

    A Year in Review: The Book Edition

    I’ve been toying with the idea of writing a year’s end wrap-up post, because one thing I’ve learned in all my many trips around the sun is that people LOVE hearing about another person’s extremely tailored, funhouse-mirror view of their lives (psst, this is typed using Sarcastic font™ – I’m calling that out, because I’m…

  • I Take My Coffee Black

    I don’t write reviews. I just can’t; I lack the ability. The ingredients for composing a good review include access to and the selective application of a review lexicon – a common language or vocabulary used by reviewers and understood by those who typically read reviews. It’s a bit like a wine connoisseur choosing to…