by Lanier Ivester | Aug 29, 2016 | Author Reviews, Book Reviews, Journal Entries
I’m not quite ready to say goodbye to summer—although there are those who are enduring this Georgia heat along with me who’d think I’m absolutely crazy to say that! But it’s been a light-hearted (if somewhat madcap!) season of visits to and from dear ones across the...
by Lanier Ivester | Jul 15, 2011 | Author Reviews, Book Reviews
There is something about the long, languid days of summer that begs for a particular flavor of reading, in my mind. I have said this before, but books have their own season for me as definitely as my clothes. I’d no more pull on my cabled wool ‘barn sweater’–so...
by Lanier Ivester | Jan 18, 2011 | Author Reviews, Book Reviews, Journal Entries
I’ve made no secret of my heartfelt writerly crush on The Rabbit Room, and it is always an honor and a joy to get to chime in on the Great Conversation that’s going on over there. Most recently I’ve aired some opinions on one of the Inklings, Charles...
by Lanier Ivester | Dec 6, 2010 | Author Reviews, Book Reviews
Of all my Christmas loves, the books and stories that express the real joys of the season are among the sweetest. Over the years I have amassed a goodly circle of friends that take their indispensable places among the cherished traditions: from the short stories we...
by Lanier Ivester | Oct 5, 2010 | Author Reviews, Book Reviews
At the gentle (and brilliant) suggestion of a reader, I have decided to act upon a notion I had back in the summer, before I even opened the Bookshop at Lanier’s Books, namely, a series of proper introductions to the authors and titles you will find on my...
by Lanier Ivester | Sep 9, 2010 | Author Reviews, Journal Entries
My sister and I have always held that this is the perfect time of year to be reading a Lucy Maud Montgomery book. No matter how many times they’ve been read and re-read—the condition of my beloved paperbacks is quite appalling!—there is just something about September...
