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Reading Roundup
What’s on my mp3 player? The Wish List, by Eoin Colfer.
The Wish List opens with fourteen-year-old Meg Finn dying. As she drifts through the tunnel to the afterlife, her aura glows purple–a 50/50 blend of red (bad–go directly to Hell) and blue (good–go directly to the Pearly Gates). This highly unusual circumstance results in her […]Reading Roundup
The first week this blog was dark, I was out and about, kayaking, watching glaciers calve and create mini-tsunamis, peering down deep crevasses and trying hard to not fall in, etc. The second week this blog was dark, I have no excuses.
What does it take to jump start my summer blog writing?
That’s easy: a […]Reading Roundup
What’s on my bookshelf? Alphaboat, by Michael Chesworth.
Normally, I share what’s on my nightstand here. Unfortunately, I have no desire to talk about the book on my nightstand. Nor do I care to talk about what’s currently on my mp3 player. Sigh. So I went to my bookshelf and pulled out an old favorite. I […]Reading Roundup
What’s on my nightstand? The Lucky Ones, by Stephanie Greene.
I enjoyed this book, but I wish I’d been allowed to critique it before it was published; I have questions I wish it had answered.
Just now, I read the blurb for the book on the HarperCollins website, and while it seems to go with the […]Reading Rant
Yowser. I’m listening to an audio book I don’t like and I’m reading a book I find annoying. Naturally, I will not name titles, but I’m going to rant a bit.
The book is a debut novel. I’m not finished, so some opinions could change, but here is one that will not: it needs editing! […]Reading Roundup
What’s on my nightstand? The Rule of Won, by Stefan Petrucha.
Terrific book. The Rule of Won takes a look at group thinking; specifically, what happens when a group of people embraces a notion that the universe provides whatever one wants: ask and ye shall receive. Want a book contract? Ask the universe for it, believe […]Reading Roundup
What’s on my nightstand? Two Girls of Gettysburg, by Lisa Klein.
I loved this book. It drew me to bed early, so I’d have more time to read.
I went to Gettysburg College, and I walked through the town and battlefield a good bit, picnicked and studied on Little Round Top and at the seminary. When the […]Reader Role
Shelly’s comment on Sunday’s Reading Roundup got me thinking again (which was the point, of course) about the role the reader plays in a story. I find the processes of writing and reading endlessly fascinating.
An author never writes the whole story. We draft character sketches and histories, details that never make it into the […]Reading Roundup
What’s on my nightstand? Cut, by Patricia McCormick.
Once again, I’m going to contradict myself–I am such a liar! Cut is a problem novel. The title pretty much says it all, so I knew that going in, even though I didn’t read the jacket copy.
I claim to not like problem novels, but I loved this […]Weekend Book Quotes
Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. –Author Unknown
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one […]
