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No Books in the Home

By Trula EarthgardenPosted on September 14, 2024Posted in Books

The graphic shows percentages of how little people read once they get out of school. I honestly don’t understand this, because how do you just…not read stuff? I don’t get how this happens but I know it’s true. I have taught children whose parents didn’t have even ONE book in the home.

10 Book Confessions

By Trula EarthgardenPosted on June 14, 2022Posted in Books, PersonalTagged books, genre, literary, snob

1. I definitely prefer paperbacks above all 2. I also break the spines of my paperbacks 3. I don’t dog ear my pages, but I support dog earers 4. I mark in books all the time 5. I read for enjoyment, but part of that enjoyment is putting reading goals in place 6. I finish […]

When Authors are Prescient

By Trula EarthgardenPosted on September 4, 2021Posted in Authors, Books, Pop CultureTagged authors, books, dystopian fiction, dystopias, fake quotes, futuristic, george orwell, margaret atwood, octavia butler, prescient, reality

LOL I had to do it! Butler’s book, one the best books I have ever read, was published in 1998. Very prescient: “The novel is set against the backdrop of a dystopian United States that has come under the grip of a Christian fundamentalist denomination called “Christian America” led by President Andrew Steele Jarret. Seeking […]