My name is Kate and I love to read. Reading tells me about the world and about myself. I find that reading alone isn’t enough. To extract all I can from a book, I need to write about it. Hence, this blog, launched in August 2010.
The Parchment Girl is a place where I dissect, analyze, and discuss literature with you, fellow readers. I cover a diverse array of genres–Christian fiction and New York Times bestsellers. Memoir, theology, and popular history. The occasional YA novel.
Here you will find book reviews, author interviews, Q&A sessions with book bloggers of all stripes, giveaways, vlogs (short for video blogs), and posts on a number of book-related topics.
I am a Christian. I love art in all forms–music, film, literature, graphics. I have Chronic Lyme Disease. I am an environmentalist. I have a love-hate relationship with technology. I am largely self-educated. All of these things inform how I process what I read.
In addition to blogging here, some of my reviews are republished at The Vessel Project. I served as a judge on the creative nonfiction panel of the INSPY Awards in 2011.
I was nominated for Best Spiritual/Religious/Inspirational Book Blog in the 2011 Book Blogger Appreciation Week Awards. I have been interviewed by Jeff Rivera for Gatekeeper’s Post (which has since closed its doors), Keiki Hendrix for The Vessel Project, James Smith for The Book Base, Kelly Hanly for Why I Blog, and Dee Stewart for Christian Fiction Blog. I also wrote a guest post for the Tyndale House blog.
I love to connect with readers through social media. You can follow me on Twitter where there’s always a lively conversation going on, like me on Facebook, friend me on Goodreads, add me to your Google+ circle, subscribe to my YouTube channel, and follow me on Pinterest. (Whew, so many ways to connect!) You can also email me at kate [at] parchmentgirl [dot] com.
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