Writing the good read
On October 17, the Seattle Times ran the first of a string of full page political ads endorsing the Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob McKenna.They were paid for by the business side of the paper, and there was a lot of assurance from that side and from the editorial leadership that the ad buy didn’t impact…
The picture above? It’s one of five such bookcases I have in the family room. There are another five up in my room. All are filled nearly edge to edge with books. I have about 30 books sitting on the floor waiting to be filed (fiction downstairs, non-fiction up, alphabetically by author). They will displace…
There are two more days for the blogathon and I have managed to visit each of the 250-plus participant blogs at least once. This is the last time this year I’ll be putting together a list of some of the great writers I discovered through this annual endeavor. I’m sure there are a large number…
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”….
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…
I did it again: two random books that on the surface couldn’t be more different, read back to back, and they go together like barbecue and Copper River Salmon. As I mentioned yesterday, I was reading A Mountain of Crumbs. Throughout the book, author Elena Gorokhova recalls how she came to crave a chance to…
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…