Sunday Book Review: Lolita
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I finished reading Lolita last week. It took me a while because originally I started reading it for my writer’s book group and didn’t finish it on time. After our ... Read more
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Sunday (It is Sunday somewhere, right?) Book Review
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I picked The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women up on a whim for 50% off what are already delightfully low book prices at Goodwill. This is not the sort ... Read more
On Writing by Stephen King
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The only part I didn’t like? The very ending. And that’s my fault. It makes me uncomfortable when people get too mushy and the very ending was definitely a syrupy ... Read more
“Bird by Bird” – Sunday Book Review
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“Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life” by Anne Lamott “Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get ... Read more
Reading Like A Writer
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I am lucky enough to be a part of a book group for writers and occasionally we choose a book on craft to read alongside whatever novels we are reading. ... Read more
The Review I Promised You: The Chronology of Water
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The reading didn’t happen. I went to my first Gray Skies Reading Series with a marked-up copy of The Chronology of Water in hand only to find that there had ... Read more
Sunday Book Review…Well, sort of…
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The book I want to review is The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch, but I haven’t finished it yet. I know I want to write a review on this ... Read more
Sunday Book Review
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I think we can agree that reading is essential. If you’re like me (and I’ll bet you are), certain books you read and the impact they had propelled you to ... Read more
Ian McEwan Article
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Ian McEwan on books that have shaped his writing and also some about his writing process. I particularly liked what he had to say about welcoming silent periods where you ... Read more
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
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O, parentheses! I have n’er seen you so buttered across the page… The use of parentheses (in addition to parenthetical commas) throughout Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse is a point ... Read more