I am SO ready for book club this month! I’ve missed the last two (Girl With A Pearl Earring and A Lesson Before Dying, both of which I did read) and am looking forward to gathering with my girlfriends and talking this one over: A River Sutra, by Gita Mehta. I’m pretty much a sucker [...]
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It’s 12:37pm. I mean to be revising my novel today – this is the last week of school for the kids and who knows what will happen once summer is officially here. It’s possible, I suppose that I could have an entirely peaceful three months filled with long days to revise the manuscript while the [...] Yes, you heard me: David Copperfield. As in Charles Dickens. It’s not some new release, people. It was written in 1849-50 as a serial, and you can read or listen to the whole thing for free through any number of websites dedicated to the classics. I listened on my LibraVox.org iPhone ap (it was 35 [...] Sorry for my absence last week; I’m back, and while things are still crazy, I’m at least forcing myself to blog. I’ll try not to whine too much. On to the book review. Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell is the book David Henson loaned me because I apparently said that I like disturbing books. This must [...] Katie assured me it was gruesome, at least in parts, and so naturally I wanted to read it. The morbid appeal of the plague, several centuries removed from me, was irresistible. (Blood and guts in a chick book! Yay!) Geraldine Brooks’ Year of Wonders was a pretty good read: a village in 1660s England decides [...] As you may know, I’ve been into classic literature lately, so A Good Indian Wife by Anne Cherian is the first contemporary work of fiction I’ve read in awhile. I didn’t find this book; it found me. Several months ago I placed in a flash fiction contest and received a goodie bag from WOW! Women [...] |
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