Tag: Africa

• The Bookmark: April

  

  Vincent van Gogh, Blossoming Almond Branch in a Glass with a Book, 1888, oil on canvas, Arles, France. An inch of rain is predicted today, starting at 11. As I am writing the skies are clear. I have plans to pull weeds if it doesn’t rain, and to sew a dress if it does. I…

  Liz

  April 24, 2026

  Fiction, Life with a Reader, Non-fiction

  Adventure, Africa, Art, Beauty, Children, Cozy, Creative Writing, Delight, Journal, Kids, Middle Grade, Series, Word of the Year, WOTY

• The Bookmark: March

  

  Vincent van Gogh, Blossoming Almond Branch in a Glass with a Book, 1888, oil on canves, Arles, France. The reading in March has taken me from my armchair to Africa to Europe to Iowa. The time periods spanned hundreds of years from the early 1600’s to 1903. I know of no other hobby that has…

  Liz

  March 27, 2026

  Fiction, Non-fiction

  Adventure, Africa, Alopecia, Anxiety, Art, book-review, Books, Change, Classic, Fairy Tales, Family, Fiction, Forgiveness, Grief, Historical Fiction, Non-fiction, Painting, Thriller, Trauma