I’ve loved traveling to historical places for vacation ever since my dad let me choose Jamestown, Virginia over Disneyland when I was 10. This year, I got a bonus: I combined my love of history and my love of books by attending a summer writers’ conference at Yale University. There I learned from some of…

Call me old-fashioned, but I rarely read books on Kindle. I like running my fingers across an embossed cover or up and down a deckled edge, and, as I’ve posted before, I jot notes throughout the chapters using my own key words and symbols. Yet, there is one exception to my old-fashionedness when it comes to…

Some people open a novel just far enough to read it. They would never bend back the wings of a hardcover book until the glue in the binding crunches. Nor would they ever permit deep vertical creases to mar the spines of paperbacks on their shelves. I get it. Books are works of art. To…

Today marks my Twitter-versary—my anniversary for 100 straight weeks of tweeting about novels that alternate between the past and present. Below you’ll find a “tapestry” of the first 100 books that I highlighted in my Sunday tweets. This week also marks my first post at Past & Present Reads blog. Here to celebrate with me…