Category Archives: Book Readers

Best Animated Short Film

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Meredith Ann Rutter

Have you seen “The Fantastic Flying books of Mr. Morris Lessmore”? It took the win last night at the Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Film. A dear friend of mine just posted the YouTube link to her Facebook page … Continue reading →

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Huffington Post Book Club and Me

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Meredith Ann Rutter

You may recall my plan to participate in the Huffington Post Book Club (to refresh your memory, click here). It depends on what aspect of being in a book club you want to focus on, to decide whether I succeeded. … Continue reading →

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Is This the Book Club for Me?

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Meredith Ann Rutter

I’ve signed on to participate in the Huffington Post Book Club, an online gathering hosted and operated by the Huffington Post. I’m hopeful that the looser requirements of time and place will allow me to fit the interactions into my … Continue reading →

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Book Collecting

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Meredith Ann Rutter

First, Happy Halloween! This picture of ravens with a book is reminiscent of Edgar Allen Poe, and that’s a Halloween sort of author if there ever was one. My post has nothing to do with Halloween or Poe, but it … Continue reading →

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Rediscovering the Joy of Reading

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Meredith Ann Rutter

Once I became entrenched in the business of textbook publishing, I hardly ever read for fun. The 60–80 hour workweeks left little time for food and laundry, let alone reading. When at work, most of the reading I did was nonfiction–either … Continue reading →

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Kids Reading and Creating

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Meredith Ann Rutter

On the heels of a family vacation last week, grandchildren Tim, Lauren, and Jeremy (and their parents) spent a few days with us. Of course, I asked who was reading what these days. The books I remember being mentioned were … Continue reading →

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Book Marketing, Part 2

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Meredith Ann Rutter

Retail booksellers are familiar with a great publication called “Shelf Awareness” that gives them current information about the book industry, publishers’ plans for upcoming books, and some of the publicity underway on recently published books. The online magazine provides lots … Continue reading →

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Young Adult Fiction Reviewer

Posted on June 11, 2011 by Meredith Ann Rutter

I’m not a parent, but I have many good friends who are parents. I had two parents myself. My stepkids are parents. I’ve also been known to have opinions about parenting, which I usually keep to myself. So, with that … Continue reading →

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What’s Your Life-Changing Book?

Posted on June 5, 2011 by Meredith Ann Rutter

It was Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams that set Salvadore Dali on his life-changing path when he read it in 1925 while attending art school. I learned this from one of the instructional plaques in the Salvadore Dali Museum … Continue reading →

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Hashtag #1book140

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Meredith Ann Rutter

I was tweeting (on Twitter) today and clicked on the hashtag #1book140 to see what it was about. Have you heard of it? I hadn’t. It’s a tweet that gives a book review in 140 characters or less. Of course, … Continue reading →

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