Ruth Plumly Thompson – Jonathon Mast: Author

Books are meant to be read!

It’s a beautiful artifact. A few weeks ago I journeyed to John K. King Bookstore in Detroit, MI. They had an entire shelf of first-edition Oz books. Most were too expensive for me, of course, but I was able to pick up two written by Ruth Plumly Thompson, the second Oz historian. (And, in myContinue reading “Books are meant to be read!”

Year of Books 2023: MOAR BOOKS!

This may be hard to believe, but I read more than a “top ten” of books and series this year. So… what else did I read this year?

Year of Books 2020: The Rest

I didn’t just read the best books of 2020. I read a lot of other things, too! Many of these were still good, just not the best of the year. Others… weren’t the best.

Not a Writing Vacation

So I didn’t write a single word on vacation. I’d like a writing vacation, where the goal is to just… write. But for the last two weeks I have written nada. It was not a useless vacation in the least. I got to visit my wife’s great-grandfather on his hundredth birthday. I got to visitContinue reading “Not a Writing Vacation”