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  • A How-To Guide for Celebrating Iceland's Jólabókaflóðið ("the Christmas book flood")

    by Ericka Smith
    What is Jólabókaflóðið? Jólabókaflóðið (pronounced YO-la-bok-a-flothe & roughly translated into English as "the Christmas book flood") is a C...

  • What I've Been Reading in November

    by Ericka Smith
    I know you don't have a lot of time on your hands - today of all days! - so I promise to keep this short, simple, and succinct.  What I've Been Rea...

  • Five Short Stories That Will Leave You Feeling #ThankfulGratefulBlessed this Thanksgiving

    by Ericka Smith
    We live in a busy, hectic, loud, demanding, time-crunched kind of world. A world in which it can be difficult to find the time to eat, breathe, and...

  • A Dickens of a Good Time

    by Ericka Smith
    You know how life sometimes treats you to something so amazing, so aligned with what you have in your life at the moment that you swivel your head...

  • Are You Feeling Clever?

    by Ericka Smith
    Are you feeling clever? I COULD share the author and title of our fourth & final Seasonal Book Box of 2022, but then where's the fun in that f...

  • What I've Been Reading in October

    by Ericka Smith
    Last October, I leaned into reading a few creepy classics - a handful of perfectly fallish books that delivered a few thrills and chills without do...

  • Welcome to the Club!

    by Ericka Smith
    (Sung - or read - to the tune of New York, New York by Frank Sinatra) 🎼 Start spreading the news... We're open TODAY. 🎤 🎼 You'll want to be a part...

  • Classic and Contemporary Creepy Fiction

    by Ericka Smith
    Halloween has not historically been my jam. I mean, I dressed up in drug store costumes with the rigid face masks that provided slits for eyes and ...

  • October Ghoulish Giveaway

    by Ericka Smith
    I love Autumn. Fall, if you will. The time of year when cool, crisp evenings begin to erase the memory of unbearable summer heat. The time of year ...

  • What I've Been Reading in September

    by Ericka Smith
    September was awesome! Banned Books Week was the absolute best, wasn't it? I am still riding the high of all we did, all we shared, all the ways we...

  • Highlights from Banned Books Week 2022

    by Ericka Smith
    This week (Sept 18-24) was Banned Books Week and you know what - it felt a little bit like Christmas finally arrived 'round these parts! Banned Bo...

  • 5 Classics to Read for Banned Books Week

    by Ericka Smith
    Classics are like time machines, the very words forming mental portraits of a past in which we cannot live, but we can certainly see in our mind'...