on Reading and Writing and All the Speculation In Between
To take a break from Stephanie Plum’s adventures, I betook myself to Victorian times today and read the latest of the Lady Julia Grey novels, The Dark Enquiry. I had been introduced to these by a former colleague last year, and was happy to see the latest one available for purchase as part of my…
It was a satisfying reading weekend: I got to immerse myself in big-hair, 80s, Trenton, New Jersey and its famous, fictional, dysfunctional anti-heroine Stephanie Plum. I’m starting to get vicarious heartburn from her frequent fast food and junk food binges, but at least with this installment we finally see a little action on the Joe…
I admit to being a little compulsive with getting into a given genre. But after how much I enjoyed Two for the Dough yesterday, I couldn’t NOT read the next one in the series… since it was handy. 😉 (Small side note here thanking my husband, acupuncturist Joe Cannariato, for his generosity with this year’s…
Strangely enough, I re-entered the world of mystery novels on the strength of another random Twitter conversation. I remembered Stephanie Plum fondly from five years ago, when I had read the first book in this series, as a wise-cracking, stubborn woman picking herself up from some unfortunate experiences (divorce and being laid off counting in…
A random, recent Twitter conversation with @ShelMKE about the rarity of the name Shelby reminded me of an author I had met while in college, Shelby Hearon. I had the honor of interviewing her as part of my duties as literary arts magazine editor, but, typically of a college student, had run out of time…
This being the ninth book in this series… there’s not a lot I can say that won’t be a spoiler… so this is your fair warning: Read further at your own peril. (If you’re like me, and read the end first anyway, I know you will ignore this anyway.) 🙂 Before I go too much…
My Twitter addiction introduced me to G. L. Drummond, so I suppose it’s only fair that she’s pushing me to longer-form responses now. Her latest nudge is an Internet meme asking us to explain what writing means to us… Honestly, it’s almost something I take for granted. I do it every day for my office…
Can I say “holy carp…”? After having placed the order for this book back in February, I was more than happy to see it arrive in this afternoon’s mail. And, honestly, it’s not uncommon for a book you’ve been waiting for that way to disappoint. But somehow, the writing team of Ilona Andrews is improving…
I’ve always considered reading a solitary pursuit, and have been happy to hole up in a convenient corner to while away the hours. But in the past year or so, I’ve found a wonderful group of fellow bibliophiles on … Twitter! So when @bookaliciouspam tweeted (or blogged… or something) recently about reading challenges she’s participating…
Because Zoe Winters was generous enough to allow G L Drummond to guest post on her site during her blog tour last month, I got curious about what she wrote, and read a number of her blog entries. Sufficiently piqued, I was thus drawn into her series “Preturnaturals”–this first installment of which was actually the…