Been a little busy writing my own book, so this is the first book I’ve managed to read this year. But it’s a doozy: Walking the Gobithe latest true-adventure memoir by my heroine Helen Thayer. Thirteen years ago, when she was 50, she was the first woman to travel solo, on foot, [...]
Sorry, haven’t finished reading a book this week–too busy writing one. It’s due next Monday! And I’ll be ready! I know I’m in the home stretch now, even though I don’t know exactly how or when the story will end. But that’s the joy of not plotting my books ahead of [...]
Hey, y’all, I’m part of an auction going on to benefit the great non-profit group Kids Need to Read, the charity project founded by author PJ Haarsma (The Softwire series) and actor Nathan Fillion (a.k.a. Hot Nathan Fillion, of Waitress, Firefly, Serenity, and now Desperate Housewives). Money raised through these auctions is used to [...]
Hello, all my fellow book clubbers, and Happy New Year! I’m so happy I could spit. I love the changeover. I’m ready for it.
So what say we close out our year of reading, and set up a new goal of reading 50 more books this year? As always, it’s just a [...]
It’s awfully nice of Little Willow to do the heavy lifting here. For those of you who are teachers, librarians, parents, aunts, booksellers, authors–okay, any of you–check out this comprehensive list Little Willow compiled. (Thank you for putting my book there under Religion, LW!)
I know some of the rest of [...]
Sorry I’m a little slow here. MAJOR sugar hangover–starting my detox today. But that’s another discussion. Let’s talk books.
Last week I finished the massive–and massively-entertaining–debut adult novel by best-selling YA author Stephenie Meyer (Twilight, etc.). The new one is called The Host, and the flap copy says it best:
The Host takes [...]
It’s almost the end of the year! Yikes! What about all those books I meant to read! Too late! Oh, well, this is the beauty of a never-ending To Be Read pile. You can always carry it over into the new year, unlike income and expenses. So who cares [...]
First it was Wuthering Heights. Then Pride and Prejudice. Now this week it’s Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer.
I am in such a girl mood.
It’s hard to look at life the same way when you’ve been steeping yourself in romance the way I have. Every man looks like either a [...]
Re-read Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice this week. And I swear this is the last time I will subject you to this, but it just so happens that I read both P & P and Wuthering Heights the summer I was 15, and somehow got it into my head that I should write my [...]
This week I reread Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. I read it first when I was 15, and here is what I wrote in the back of the book. Forgive me, but I’m afraid this is an exact quote:
“As with all great stories, I’ve chosen my loved character and become her in every way [...]