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Reviews

Charrie Hazard: Falling Into the Sun

I received a copy of Falling Into the Sun from Zard Tompkins, the woman who did the layout and design for the book. I knew nothing about the book prior to receiving and wasn’t sure I was going to be interested after reading the jacket. The good news is, it was well written enough to [...]

Austin Thomas: Zest of Life

I had a wonderful reminder last Saturday of what Old Musty Books is really for. Originally, I wanted to showcase new authors. That said, I do that; however, there’s a whole lot of other things that I do with Old Musty Books due the life cycle of a four year old web site – Evolution [...]

Michael Baron: When You Went Away

There are few authors that I consciously say “Wow, I wanna read more of his books.” This happened last night when completed When You Went Away by Michael Baron…before I wiped away the several hours of tear stains on my face. I’d never read Michael Baron before, and part of my process for starting a [...]

Editorials

School’s Starting and Flocabulary Can Help

Happy Sunday! This week, I’m going to introduce you to something INCREDIBLY cool – especially if you have school-age children. Since school is starting in the next few weeks all over the country, I thought the video and the introduction to the company was appropriate. One of the on-going philosophies at the music store I’m [...]

The River of Life

A very long time ago, I found this interesting little book called Nothing Special: Living Zen by Charlotte J. Beck and Steve Smith. Over the years, I’ve picked it up and read an excerpt, here and there, but haven’t read the whole book since I first brought it home. One of my favorite sections talks [...]

Melissa Foster: Recognizing the End of Your Story

Today’s guest post is by Melissa Foster, the author of Megan’s Way and Chasing Amanda. Special thanks to Melissa for dropping by! Knowing when to end your story is a very personal issue. Some writers like to take stories beyond the “end” of the plots and subplots and carry the reader into the next phase [...]

Be a Hero – Donate to the Red Cross

So often, when something devastating happens in the world like floods, hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis, we send donations to organizations that are providing relief. After a tragic natural disaster, we always hear about how much money was raised to help the people in other countries. When you listen to the news and radio about this, [...]

Think About It

The Quiet Place

This is an atypical post for Old Musty Books, but I thought it was worthy of sharing. My young friend shared it with me, because he thought I’d find value in it. I did…and I was most impressed he did, as well. Please follow the link below. Make sure you volume is on, and do [...]

Invictus – A Poem

Last night, I watched the movie Invictus – what a great inspirational movie. This morning I woke up wondering about the poem that Mandela shared with Francois Pienaar in the movie. It was difficult to hear some of the words of the poem, as they were recited over much background noise. Did it exist or [...]

What Matters is Not Wealth – but How Well We Have Loved

Normally, I don’t use a politician in the “think about it” category, mostly because one never knows what to expect the reaction will be. However, there were some things President Obama said last night at the Together We Thrive memorial in Arizona that I think bear thinking about – not as a Democrat or a [...]

Google’s New Database for Geeks like Me

The New York Times today has an article about the Google release of a new book database. The digital storehouse, which comprises words and short phrases as well as a year-by-year count of how often they appear, represents the first time a data set of this magnitude and searching tools are at the disposal of [...]