Scott D. Parker: Writer

At least nine times a year, I start a book with zero knowledge about it. And it’s wonderful We’re all readers here, right? How do you usuall...

Do you ever feel left out of a conversation? It’s only mid-January and while the year is still brand-new, the old year still has a few remna...

The new Bruce Springsteen album, Only the Strong Survive, was released yesterday. It’s an album of soul and R&B covers, most of which I ...

At my science fiction book club meeting this week, I learned a surprising fact: the other three guys in the group rarely read non-fiction. W...

It took only fifty years but I finally listened to Carole King’s Tapestry. If you read about my regulated reading a few weeks ago, you’ll r...

Do you ever regulate your reading? I was struggling over what term to use so let me just explain. Last year, I did a little experiment. The ...

At the beginning of the year, I wrote about how well my wife read in 2017 and how poorly did I. She has a habit I called “mindful reading,” ...

I'm a lifelong reader, the kind of person who always has a book nearby, but I in 2017, my wife had me beat. During the holidays, I ov...

Do you ever read your books this way? My grandfather used to hold his books that way. I remember, even as a boy, cringing at bending th...

I went to four estate sales yesterday. The historian part of me drooled (and sweated a lot) at the treasure trove of magazines in one garage...