For the first time in my life, I don’t have time to read. This seems like not that big a deal, but this is coming from someone who is never without a book. While growing up, I constantly had a book in hand; while eating, watching TV, getting ready for school, on car or bus
Category: Books
TLC Book Tours: Married Love by Tessa Hadley
A short story is often treated like a stepping stone that grad students and lesser writers use to build their skills. Tell someone you wrote a book and you get congratulations; tell them you wrote a collection of short stories and they’ll ask you how your book is coming along. For most people, short stories
TLC Book Tours: Because You Have To by Joan Frank
I was about two pages into Because You Have To: A Writing Life by Joan Frank when the following three sentences gave me pause- A teaching mentor during a MFA program once wrote to me, in calm response to my own bewildered longing for time: “One has plenty of opportunities during the day to write.”
TLC Book Tour: A Simple Thing by Kathleen McCleary
I was super excited when TLC Book Tours contacted me again about doing another book review, this time fiction! Contemporary fiction! Yay! I was given A Simple Thing by Kathleen McCleary. I’d rehash the plot, but since the publisher paid someone a lot of money to do that for them, I’ll let them do their
TLC Book Tour Review: Marriage Confidential by Pamela Haag
Y’all know how I feel about books, so when TLC Book Tours contacted me and asked if I wanted to be a part of one of their online book tours, I had pretty much said yes before I even finished reading the email. And then when I found out the book was Marriage Confidential: Love
2012 Book List
I have admitted defeat. Between writing for A Practical Wedding, We Heart This, my grad school class and here (when I actually do…sorry guys…), making Christmas presents and cards and being married to the most wonderful and annoying man on the planet, I am all tapped out. Fun stuff like reading has fallen to the
Messy Reads
It was mentioned a while back that I should join Good Reads, and I did. A CRAZY amount of y’all are on there, though I shouldn’t be surprised given how many bookworms there are on here. Now, if you’re interested, I’ve started a “Messy Reads” group on Good Reads. It’s not a book club, it’s just
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