Happy Book Banning Week (BBW)!  This year’s theme is Celebrating the Freedom to Read!
I thought today would be a great time to share some of my thoughts regarding Book Banning. I have a real difficult time understanding why anyone would want to challenge a book.   What gives one small group (or one set of […]

Travis Thrasher has been writing his whole life. In third grade, his teacher encouraged him in writing. That combined with reading the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis cemented the dream of becoming a writer.
While living in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, Travis completed his first novel in ninth grade.  It was also during […]

Here’s a surprise!  Have you ever heard of Christian Horror?  Sort of sounds like an oxymoron doesn’t it?  I mean, really, you think Christian, you think hope and love and joy.  You think Horror, you conjure up images of Cujo and viruses that wipe out the whole country and big ugly clowns who kidnap children […]

Bonnie Glover is the author of The Middle Sister, published by Ballantine/OneWorld in May 2005. It was longlisted for the International Impac Dublin Literary Award.  Her second novel, Going Down South, is an inspirational story about second chances at realizing the unparalleled love exists between mothers and daughters.
Bonnie was born on October 10 in Florence, […]

Happy Sunday to all my bookish friends.  Its been a very busy week here at Old Musty Books.  I’ve decided I’m going to spend a week at the Miami Book Fair International.  I only live about two hours south of Miami and well, it just makes sense to go.  Once I decided to go, I […]

a long way gone: memoirs of a boy soldier is Ishmael Beah’s extraordinary story of his life in Sierre Leone.  At the very beginning of the acknowledgments of this book, he writes:
“I never thought I would be alive to this day, much less that I would write a book.”

What do you do when your country […]

This morning, as I sit outside at my parents home, which we have fondly dubbed the Resort because of the back deck and fabulous pool, great food and wonderful tender loving care provided by the ‘rents (short for parents), I can’t help but think about family and the ties that bind.
Its more than just sitting […]