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 | Jun 10, 2014 | Book Reviews
Some of my very favorite memories of summer are the endless afternoons I spent reading as a girl. Whether sprawled across my bed or tipping lazily in the hammock under the dogwood trees, those blessed hours epitomize the essence of true summertime luxury to me....
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 25, 2010 | Book Reviews
You don’t have to spend much time around here to know that I am a Romantic of the old order. I love the tenderness of a well-turned phrase, the high sensibility of a love letter. My heart plunges and rises and plunges again with the pathos of a Chopin nocturne and I...
