Patina & Purl

It's been awhile since I shared a Good Reads post, but lately I've had good luck with books. My favorite time to read is earl...

To be perfectly honest, I did not read all three of these books in January. Otherwise, I would have had to read three books in ten ...

In my opinion, 2015 was a year of good books. I feel like I had some seriously good luck with book selection this year. Getting a Fre...

So when was the last time you went to your public library? Hmmm? I know, right! A few weeks ago, Mark and I stopped by the Fred...

Y'all. I think I'm breaking some kind of record this year. I've read two science fiction books since June. In all honesty tho...

It's been awhile since I wrote a Good Reads post for the blog. I've been spending more and more time working on writing for myse...

So. Weird creepy fact: it was exactly a year to the date between downloading and reading this book and the last time I used my KindleFire...

These summer afternoons stretch lazily into evenings, like the rose and ochre clouds that stretch across the sunset. As the fireflies h...

Today I thought I would share a review of my most recent read: Longbourne by Jo Baker, This book first entered my literary radar via a r...

When you think summer, what three words immediately jump to mind? For me, it's sundresses, sand, and books. Since I was a little g...

Welcome to the third installment of our collaborative Book Club series with my sweet friend Whitney Ann . For the month of May, we read ...

Thanks to everyone who joined in our last two book club discussions of Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald and Where'd You Go Bernadette ...

Welcome to the second installment of our collaborative Book Club series with Wit&Spice. This month, we will be discussing Therese An...

Thanks to all those who joined in our first Book Club discussion last week! We'll now move onto one of Whitney's picks: Z: A No...

"'Everything you do is at full speed, like a rocket taking off,' I said. 'You live each moment as if it were the supre...

Today, I'm excited to announce the beginning of a collaborative blog series with my close friend Whitney of Wit & Spice . ...

image via  Pinterest I have a confession: I'm a bookaholic. In order to function as a normal adult (but then what is normal?), I mu...

This week, some of my favorite online reads involve the power of womanhood, the march of William Techumseh Sherman, and the ability to s...

Title: Wild Author: Cheryl Strayed Favorite passage: "It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or backpacking fads or philo...