on Reading and Writing and All the Speculation In Between
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…
I discovered Ilona Andrews about a year ago based on an online bookstore “you might also like” reference. I quickly chowed through their Kate Daniels series and am anxiously awaiting the release of “Magic Slays” any day now (it’s been on my wish list at Amazon since last December and I really can’t wait to…