Posted Aug 30 2010 in Miscellany
There’s a car commercial on TV where a dad rattles off a list of safety measures to a little girl who can’t see over the steering wheel. At the end of the commercial, we learn the little girl is really all grown up but the dad still sees her as his baby. That’s EXACTLY what […]
Read More...Posted Aug 26 2010
Cardboard characters. They’re flat. Uninspiring. We forget them as soon as we put the book down. Inspired by both our Book Hungry Book Club’s recent review of THE HUNGER GAMES as well as by a slew of outside-my-comfort-zone reading, today’s blog post is devoted to what makes a character leap from the page and stick […]
Read More...Posted Aug 22 2010 in Miscellany
There’s an old saying that great minds think alike. While there is some truth in this (old sayings get old because there must be some truth in them, no?), I discovered yesterday that fresh points of view help you see things you never knew were there. Twitter pal Jeannie (@Jeannienovels) invited me along to the […]
Read More...Posted Aug 19 2010 in What I'm Reading
“You have to read The Hunger Games,” my twitter pals tell me. “You’ll love it.” I go to Amazon, look at the cover. I’m not impressed. I read the description. “A story,” it begins, “set in a post-apocalyptic world where children are used as gladiators in a fight to the death.” “Ugh,” I groan. Sounds […]
Read More...Posted Aug 17 2010 in social networking
To steal blatantly quote from author Evan Mandery, it’s later than you think. My mother’s diagnosis made me realize that tomorrow is not a promise. It’s an expectation, an act of faith, a possibility. I’ve been doing too much waiting for tomorrow but what if there is no tomorrow? When I was in the process […]
Read More...Posted Aug 9 2010
At the risk of incurring yet more of my twitta sistas’ wrath, YES, I WAS ON VACATION last week. Go ahead. Curse me. Shake your fist. You know you want to. I’ll wait while you get it out of your system. Feel better? Fantastic. For what it’s worth, this was the first full week off […]
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