Blog of the Year – 2012 … Four Stars (Gee) AND a new recipient!
Having received the Blog of the Year Award last week from Tyson at Head in a Vice , then a second from Sharla at CatnipOfLife, and yet another from Bette Stevens at 4WRITERSANDREADERS … and, as it...
View ArticleEarth Abides — George R. Stewart
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart I originally read this book more than 30 years ago. It wasn’t a new book even then, but it was new for me. Unlike so many other books I read and forgot, it stuck in my...
View ArticleHappily Reading Myself to Death
Half a dozen times during the past few months, I’ve seen the sun rise and heard the birds wake and sing the morning in. I have sometimes gotten up very early to see the sunrise and take pictures. More...
View ArticleA happy slave to books
Half a dozen times during every month of the year, I see the sun rise and hear the birds sing the morning in. It’s not insomnia. I am in the thrall of a good book and I just can’t stop reading. I’ve...
View ArticleWrite? Right?
After 35 years as a technical writer, I am discovering many aspiring writers secretly — maybe not so secretly — want to write user guides. While invoking a glamor by calling their work fiction, their...
View ArticleEver After, Kim Harrison – Fantasy Comfort Food of the Literary Kind
When I began reading Ever After, by Kim Harrison — on the day of its release — I read it first on Kindle. Next, to get the full flavor, I listened to the audiobook, narrated by Marguerite Gavin. Oh my....
View ArticleBEST BOOK EVER ON TIME TRAVEL AND THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION: 11/22/63,...
Don’t let the headline fool you. It’s about a lot more than either time travel, the Kennedy Assassination or any other single thing. It’s about life, loss, change and human relationships. What makes it...
View ArticleUNDER THE DOME – SOUND AND FURY, SIGNIFYING NOTHING
Macbeth: To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death....
View ArticleTIME AND THE ASSASSINATION OF JFK: 11/22/63, STEPHEN KING
Don’t let the title fool you. This book is about a lot more than time travel, the Kennedy Assassination or any single thing. It’s about life, loss, change and human relationships. What makes it so...
View ArticleSTEPHEN KING – 11/22/63
11/22/63, BY STEPHEN KING If you haven’t read this amazing novel yet, it is as good now as it was when it was when first published four years ago. Tomorrow is the anniversary of the central event of...
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