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  • A Travel Blog for Book Lovers: Part 2

    by Ericka Smith
    Guest Blog by Mirah Welday Last month, I shared about my Memoirs of a Geisha-inspired trip to Kyoto, Japan, in the first installment of my four-pa...

  • Audiobook Appreciation Month

    by Ericka Smith
    Did you know that June is Audiobook Appreciation Month? I didn't even know there was a thing called Audiobook Appreciation Month until I saw somet...

  • Have Book. Will Travel.

    by Ericka Smith
    I have been what I call a "vicarious vacationer" most of my adult life. My husband and I married after our sophomore year in college and eighteen ...

  • Fun Fiction for Hobbyists

    by Ericka Smith
    One of the best parts of Pretty Literate's Monthly Book Club is forming real friendships with the other members. The monthly deliveri...

  • A Travel Blog for Book Lovers: Part 1

    by Ericka Smith
    Guest Blog by Mirah Welday When Ericka first approached me about contributing to the Pretty Literate blog by sharing my personal experiences with ...

  • 12 Best Books Set in My State

    by Ericka Smith
    Big Bend and the Hill Country. Those would be my answers if you asked me where my favorite places in Texas were. In fact, I'm visiting them right n...

  • 16 Pulitzer Prize Winners You Should Read

    by Ericka Smith
    It felt a little bit like what I imagine drafting season feels like for sports fans around Pretty Literate on Monday afternoon.  Remember last year...

  • Roads Less Traveled

    by Ericka Smith
    Last week I shared The Perfect Classic to Read if You Have Wanderlust (or Want to!) - a slice of American pie by one of America's greatest novelis...

  • The PERFECT Classic to Read if You Have Wanderlust (or Want to!)

    by Ericka Smith
    A Bit of Background For most of my adult life, I never ventured far from home. I was okay with this because, well, I loved being at home. I loved ...

  • 6 Reasons to Read SO BIG by Edna Ferber this Month

    by Ericka Smith
    *This blog contains SPOILERS for Edna Ferber's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel SO BIG. It's a goal of mine to eventually read my way through the Puli...

  • A Few of my Favorite Fictional Husbands

    by Ericka Smith
    I love a good "themed" read. By that, I mean I love to read a good book that is set in the current season, or one that takes place around a holiday...

  • 15 Famously Fantastic Sibling Relationships in Fiction

    by Ericka Smith
    Sibling relationships can be...complicated. National Sibling Day (Monday, April 10, 2023) is just around the corner and I feel it would be irre...