My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Book Reviews!
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout My rating: 4 of 5 stars I needed a book like this. An uncomplicated book that in spite of how busy and ... Read more
Making time, people. Are you?
A Room Of Your Own, On writing
“The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear Chris ... Read more
Ready to write?
A Room Of Your Own, Inspiration
It’s the infamous hump day in my writing week and I felt it on my morning run. I had to shuffle my way up every hill one tiny step at ... Read more
On patience in revision.
A Room Of Your Own, On writing
I’ve been thinking about the importance of patience this morning, how it is so necessary, but also something that has to be learned. Why, you ask, was I thinking about ... Read more
Yep. It’s a first draft, all right.
A Room Of Your Own, On writing
This week, I finished up another draft of a manuscript that is in nearing the publishing phase of the editing process, then finished a read-through of a first draft of ... Read more
Learning from a confidence crash: Reflections from a writing retreat.
A Room Of Your Own, Be here now.
I started this blog as a way to keep myself writing. It was the same kind of desperate attempt to build good habits that causes people to talk their significants ... Read more
Review: Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
Book Reviews!
Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine My rating: 4 of 5 stars My book group picked Citizen for the month of May. One unusually sunny ... Read more
A book of my poems? Why, yes, it is.
Poetry
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Red Dress Press publishes first author-designed book. Linger, Love. by Liz Shine is a collection of poems written and edited over twenty years. Placed together in this ... Read more
Review: An Atlas of the Difficult World
On writing
An Atlas of the Difficult World by Adrienne Rich My rating: 5 of 5 stars An Atlas of the Difficult World delivers, as Rich’s collections always do. Reading her work ... Read more
Review: The God of Small Things
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The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy My rating: 5 of 5 stars If I’d pick up this book at the right time (less busy), I might have finished ... Read more