Writing the good read
I was wondering what good books I could find to borrow from Amazon.com’s Kindle lending library for Prime members. I searched through about a thousand books listed in biography and literary fiction — two of my favorite genres. I found a half dozen books I’d heard of — a couple, like Water for Elephants, I’d…
Here are a few more good reads I’ve discovered through the blogathon experience. Popcorn Homestead by Joan Lambert Bailey takes you on a brief trip through her life in metropolitan Tokyo. It’s a unique opportunity to see what living in Japan is like, read about it in real time, and not have to read Japanese!…
If it’s Sunday it must be time for me to wander through some of the other 252 blogs that are part of the WordCount Blogathon. I hope you enjoy these as much as I did, do, and will continue to enjoy. Aubergine — Dona Baumbarner’s blog, which she calls the “musings of a mid-life mama”….
Someone on Facebook had a link to a post at Caveman Circus about what women really mean when they say certain things. It was mildly amusing, and some of it had a ring of truth — a loud sigh is, indeed, a word; sometimes when we say “Fine” we really mean “Are you kidding me?…
I just finished another book. I’m going to write about it next week, but it goes with the book I’ve just started (another example of my unique and unconscious ability to read books back to back that end up going together in some way). The pile next to my bed is getting a little shorter…
As we enter the second week of the fifth annual WordCount Blogathon, wherein I, and 251 of my closest writer friends, do our darnedest to blog every day in the month of May. It gives us a chance to go through each others blogs and find new gems to follow. Here’s the first of three…
If I have a large pile of books next to the bed, I often have a hard time picking which one to read next. So to help with my decision making, I read the review blurbs in paperbacks. The other day I picked up A Mountain of Crumbs, the memoir by Elena Gorokhova. One of…
Do you like words? Books? Esoteric discussions about words and books? The Happy Bibliophile takes a writer a week and uses that person to explore the world of writing and words. I love the idea. And happily, I love most of the writers! Another great book blog is Some Can Whistle. I particularly like that…
I do my best writing when I should be sleeping. Usually, there is no computer or paper and pencil. As I drift off, I write — ledes to the stories I have due later in the week, very clever blog-posts, 140-character masterpieces of Twitter, and some of the most scathing (and of course effective) letters…
I’m not in the military — although my step-brother is currently serving on the USS Carl Vinson (at port in Hong Kong after dealing with Osama Bin Laden’s remains) and my nephew was an active duty Marine on 9/11. But I love this blog about being an Army wife: Apple Days Army Nights. I love…