Category: Sunday SalonBy Rachel Laudiero on Nov 10, 2008 in Editorial, Sunday Salon | 0 Comments
It appears, I’m on a completely different time table than the rest of you - at least that’s the way I’m going to look it, since I can’t seem to get the Sunday Salon written on Sunday. It’s not that I’m slacking, its just that in the last few weeks, I seem to be […]
By Rachel Laudiero on Nov 3, 2008 in Editorial, Featured, Sunday Salon | 2 Comments
The end of Halloween signals the last few days of the election cycle here in America. As we sneak a piece of chocolate from the kids’ Halloween stash, we put the final touches on our individual arguments for who we are going to vote into office. If we haven’t already decided, we firm up our […]
By Rachel Laudiero on Oct 26, 2008 in Featured, Sunday Salon | 0 Comments
All week, I found myself distracted after two or three pages in ever book I opened. I think I picked up seven or eight different books this week. None of them hooked me and many of them should have. This phenomenon used to cause a great deal of stress in my world. What do you […]
By Rachel Laudiero on Oct 20, 2008 in Featured, Sunday Salon | 0 Comments
Hello, Friends. Last week was a pretty busy week for Old Musty Books - lots of reading, lots of articles posted. So, I took the weekend off, and figured I could just pretend this morning was an extension of Sunday. I say I took the weekend off, but really, I just didn’t write. I read…all […]
By Rachel Laudiero on Oct 5, 2008 in Featured, Sunday Salon | 1 Comment
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 […]
By Rachel Laudiero on Sep 28, 2008 in Editorial, Featured, Sunday Salon | 1 Comment
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 […]
By Rachel Laudiero on Sep 21, 2008 in Featured, Sunday Salon | 4 Comments
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 […]
