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Reading Backward (to trick my brain)

Writers read, all the time. People who want to write should start by reading. There is no better way to learn than to read. I’ve met many people who love writing but say that they don’t love reading. I admit it: at one point, this would have been me. I discovered, however, that there wereContinue reading “Reading Backward (to trick my brain)”

Read It! Wrap It! Gift It! The Book Blog Hop

Christmas time is a time of gifting, and what better gift than a good book? I have a few to recommend that will have you all feeling loosy goosy with exciting literary promise. This delightful mystery is spiced with haute cuisine, professional football, a cadre of gorgeous and impossibly limber ballerinas, sailboats, manic depressives andContinue reading “Read It! Wrap It! Gift It! The Book Blog Hop”

Aesha’s Story

I found this story after reading about a woman in Afghanistan executed by the Taliban over some trumped up story of adultery. This one is a story about survival. Worth watching. CNN: Saving Aesha

Aesha’s Story

I found this story after reading about a woman in Afghanistan executed by the Taliban over some trumped up story of adultery. This one is a story about survival. Worth watching. CNN: Saving Aesha

>Tina’s Review of The Best American Mystery Stories 2010, Edited by Lee Child

> Happy Valentine’s Day! As I’ve been reminding everyone, nothing says love like a nice crime fiction novel — or in this case, story collection. Because as everybody knows, Love and Death walk hand in hand through this world. The well-muscled human heart is capable of reddish deeds both glorious and horrific, that’s for certain,Continue reading “>Tina’s Review of The Best American Mystery Stories 2010, Edited by Lee Child”

>Tina’s Review of The Best American Mystery Stories 2010, Edited by Lee Child

>Fallow Fields

>This is an excerpt of Fallow Fields, an essay about sterility in writing. The full text is available in Mason’s Road. Let me speak to you as you like: with pretty language flowing through manicured Zen gardens of sense. I understand that preference viscerally. As a younger writer, I used to make love to words.Continue reading “>Fallow Fields”

>What you should be reading….

> If you’re looking for some books to really sink your teeth into, try these recommended by my favorite ABD. She will explain why: I have no time for fun reading, but with the justification that they are “postcolionial” in nature, I reread Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North and J. M. Coetzee’sContinue reading “>What you should be reading….”

>What you should be reading….

>If you’re looking for some books to really sink your teeth into, try these recommended by my favorite ABD. She will explain why:I have no time for fun reading, but with the justification that they are “postcolionial” in nature, I reread Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North and J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting forContinue reading “>What you should be reading….”

>Between the Sheets–Katrina’s review of the 2010 McDowell book

> Last summer, as I was perusing the new book section at my local public library, I came across a book in non-fiction whose spine declared it was Between the Sheets. I was intrigued enough to pull it from the shelf and read its entire title: Between the Sheets: The Literary Liaisons of Nine 20th-CenturyContinue reading “>Between the Sheets–Katrina’s review of the 2010 McDowell book”