A couple of weeks ago, I told you I’d received all four of the Twilight Saga Series books. I also told you I didn’t think I was going to get to them until after November.  Well, the draw was just too much.  I had to read them - had to know what the attraction was […]

An occupational hazard of reading for a living is you often read the same books - different titles, different characters, same basic story.  Its a shame really.  I believe all books deserve to be read.  I believe authors probably have a great story to tell, but allow themselves to get pigeonholed into telling a story […]

There are three types of folks that live in Florida.  There are those of us born here; there are those of us who have moved here from “up north” (which means anywhere in the US) because the weather is better here year round; and there are those of us that came to visit and never […]

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 […]

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 […]