Okay, you know how I love hosting authors and guest posts, so this week, I have a special treat. I’ve got an interview with Lisa Becker, author of Click: An Online Love Story that is going to be coming up on Thursday, September 1st. (Full disclosure: I loved online dating. I don’t date guys who can’t form a coherent sentence… Read more
This is an interesting bit of a quote, and one I agree with wholeheartedly: Never judge a book by its movie. J. W. Eagan I do hate it when they take a great book and turn it into an awful movie. They’ve done it to any number of Stephen King’s horror novels (say what you will about King, he can… Read more
I love public art. I love murals on buildings and cool graffiti and statues in odd places. I think that sort of thing adds a lot to the flavor of a community, so for this Saturday snapshot, I decided to show a bit of public art I am really fond of. Saturday Snapshot is hosted by Alyce at At Home… Read more
This is a new feature from my Skype Sisters! These are some great gals I met at the a conference for authors and reviewers, and we have been chatting on Skype ever since. Top Spot is a new monthly blog meme hosted by the Skype Sisters. Every month we will get together to share our favorite read from that month and… Read more
Forgetting English is a slim volume of haunting short stories. These are stories of loss, of deep emotion, and of women trying to find their way forward. The language is lyrical — poetic in places — and the stories were lovely to read. Author Midge Raymond provides a very short but entertaining collection. “The lanterns bob gently as they drift… Read more
It’s Tuesday and time for another Teaser! Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB and you know the rules by now: take your current read, open to a random page and share a couple of teaser sentences with us. Be sure to tell us about the book, so we can add it to our TBR list. This week, I’ve just finished… Read more
As promised, I’ve got a great guest post to start off the week! Today’s contributor is David Mark Brown, author of Fistful of Reefer. His debut novel is the story of what the West might have been if oil didn’t get cheap but we learned to make cheap ethanol from cannabis. I asked David to write about micro-genres — those… Read more
Today’s Quotable compares books and television. The fact is, I love them both – there are some great things on TV. But a TV show will never give you the same internal life that a book will. It’s all spelled out for you, it all happens in your eyes and ears; not enough happens in your head. Like a movie… Read more
Time to share some pictures for Saturday Snapshot! To participate in the Saturday Snapshot meme post a photo that you (or a friend or family member) have taken then leave a direct link to your post in the Mister Linky below. Photos can be old or new, and be of any subject as long as they are clean and appropriate for… Read more
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