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• Affiliations—Disclosure
• About Me
• Acknowledgements
• Citations Note

Affiliations/Disclosure

My posts contain affiliate links, which means I get a commission if you decide to make a purchase through my website’s links…at no cost to you.  The following companies will pay me a commission if you click on their links from my website and then make a purchase.  This is the only way I earn money off this website; otherwise, it is a labor of love:

Alibris.com, all the book links.

All other links are provided for your convenience; I make no other commissions.

About Me

I love to read and want to share that love of reading with others.

I also love to write about what I read.  This website is a good combo for those two passions.

I tend to favor non-fiction; thus most of the articles are book reviews of mostly science-based books written by authoritative authors who use fact-based research for their works.

I also write about other topics or genres, such as magazines, the act of reading, history, fiction, and so on.

For instance, I have a separate tab for a series I wrote for my local weekly newspaper about graphic novels for adults, again mostly non-fiction.  I am currently writing another series for the newspaper about browsing the local library.  That series will also eventually be posted here.

One of the formats I write are what I call Book Review Letters.

When I read the books authors have taken so much time to compose, to explain their theories or insights, or to simply share their knowledge, I feel connected to them.  It’s as though I’ve spent a good portion of my afternoon knocking around in another person’s head.  It’s delightful to see what they know and what they think about what they know.

So I write a review of the book in the format of a letter to the author.  At the end, I might ask a question or two to help me understand a point they made, or I might simply want to share an enthusiastic response I had to something they wrote.

I hope they will choose to respond to that question or comment.  Just once; just a brief interchange; just a call and response to complete the circle from author to reader, from reviewer back to author.

Here are some ground rules I follow in all my writings:

• I only publish reviews of books I liked reading; I will not waste anyone’s time reviewing a poorly-enjoyed book.
• I write reviews that are respectful, but honest.
• I strive to share what I understand.
• I question those things I don’t understand.
• I challenge what I doubt.
• I celebrate what enthralls me.
• And I give enough background to other readers that they might be encouraged to check the book out for themselves (literally, many of the books I review I get from the library).

I hope you, the reader of this website, will appreciate more fully the knowledge gained from our earnest writers.

Acknowledgements

            lisa, editor

            Zotero, a free bibliography software, at zotero.com

Citations Note

Unless otherwise stated, all books cited, whether reviewed or not, are ones I have read from cover to cover.  They are books I recommend because I got something out of them.