Bloggers Speak Out is a movement sparked by the recent article, “Filthy Books Demeaning to Republic Education” by Dr. Wesley Scroggins that was published in the Springfield, MO News-Leader on September 18th. In this article, Scroggins vehemently advocates the censorship of books in schools, and specifically requests that the following books be removed from the [...]

This weekend (September 10-12), I’m participating in Blog Fest, an event organized by Cinammon at A Journey of Books. Blog Fest is basically a weekend full of giveaways and contests all over the blogosphere, including lots of book blogs! Before the announcements start flooding over the book blogosphere, I’d like to take a moment to [...]

This weekend (September 10-12), I’m participating in Blog Fest, an event organized by Cinammon at A Journey of Books. Blog Fest is basically a weekend full of giveaways and contests all over the blogosphere, including lots of book blogs! So … here’s a warm welcome to readers, both old and new! As part of this [...]

During the month of Ramadan (August 11 – September 10), I am going to be posting daily reviews of books that deal with Islam, as well as other discussion posts related to the topics that come out of these books. I will be writing about both fiction and non-fiction books, and from a variety of [...]

Last week, I held my first mini-challenge, as part of the From Dusk till Dawn Read-A-Thon. My apologies for taking so long to announce this, but the winner is: Mrs. DeRaps of DeRaps Reads! Thank you all so much for joining in on the mini-challenge. It was a lot of fun to read all of [...]