Amusing Ames

At my age, birthdays usually give way from parties and presents to dinners out and someone else doing the chores for the evening. So imagine my surprise when I arrived home yesterday (my birthday) to find a box from Amazon waiting on our stoop. “Did you order anything?” my husband […]

If it had not been for on-line digital libraries, I probably would not have embraced audio books the way that I have. As a child, my parents purchased numerous audio children’s books that had a corresponding hard copy book, and whenever the special little jingle rang, I knew it was […]

Even though we had shelves and shelves full of books in our own home, there was something enchanting about going to the library. The one at school was exciting, though small, and quickly its contents were essentially memorized. My high school’s library lacked charm, given it was the access point […]

Full disclosure: I actually prefer print books over e-books. I think every true bibliophile does. Jelia has offered a critique of the developing medium, so I have decided to write my defense of e-books. More disclosure, I have owned a Kindle for the last four years, and I have read the […]

Steve Inskeep, Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab, New York: Penguin Press, 2015. I readily admit that I am, in every sense of the word, an NPR junkie. I have tuned in more or less religiously since I found it the best way to […]