Tag: reading

• Fiction: Battle-tested

  

  “No,” Graham said. “Buck can and should stand on his own. He’s struggling lately. It’s why he needs the crutch of religion, but it’ll pass when he’s stronger.” “Father! How dare you pretend to know me when all you’ve ever done is overlook me! Don’t make excuses for me. Don’t belittle my faith. God doesn’t […]

  Adrienne Morris

  April 19, 2018

  Adrienne Morris, books, The Tenafly Road Series

  bookish features, books about sibling rivalry, family saga novels fiction, Online books, period drama, reading, US historical fiction

• A Mother Who Read to Me

  The Reading Mother by Strickland Gillilan I had a mother who read to me Sagas of pirates who scoured the sea, Cutlasses clenched in their yellow teeth, “Blackbirds” stowed in the hold beneath. I had a Mother who read me lays Of ancient and gallant and golden days; Stories of Marmion and Ivanhoe, Which every […]

  Adrienne Morris

  May 14, 2017

  books, Family, Photography, Poetry, Uncategorized

  benefits of reading to children, Happy Mother’s Day, mothers, Poetry, reading

• “I am simply a ‘book drunkard.’ Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.” — L.M. Montgomery

  Adrienne Morris

  January 8, 2014

  Beautiful Images, Intoxication

  Books, LM Montgomery Quote, People Reading Books, Photo Essay, Photography, Quotes, reading, Wordless Wednesday, Writers

• Happy Book Discovery

  I love getting cash for Christmas! As some of you know my character, Buck Crenshaw goes to Saratoga Springs in the 1880’s for his honeymoon. Imagine my excitement yesterday when I stumbled upon this little gem of a book published, yes, in the 1880’s! It’s a comical tale about a grumpy old man who’s dragged […]

  Adrienne Morris

  December 28, 2013

  Beautiful Images, Books I’ve Known and Loved, Writing

  19th Century Books, antique, Books, fiction, Illustrations, old books, Old Man in Rocking Chair, reading, Vacation in Saratoga, Writing