“Easy reading is damn hard writing.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne, American novelist I do a fair amount of writing and I agree so strongly with this. Writing something smooth and easy to read? Not as easy as it looks. Read more
Yearly Archives: 2014
New on the Shelves…
I was fortunate enough to meet Richard Montanari, author of The Echo Man a few years ago at a book club meeting. What a great event! Not only did we get to read a great book that month (The Rosary Girls) we got to talk with the author about it! I am really looking forward to this new one: It is… Read more
Christine’s Review: Paris Letters by Janice McLeod
I hope you tweeted your special travel photo in the Paris Letters photo contest. If you haven’t, you’ve still got time and to inspire you, today we’ve got Christine’s review of Paris Letters: Ah, Paris. While memoirist Janice MacLeod is a seasoned traveler, she’s still enchanted by The City of Light. Paris Letters is her love affair documented through pen and… Read more
Guest Post: Rudy Mazzocchi, author of Storytelling: The Indispensable Art of Entrepreneurism
Okay, time to let the authors do the work…today I’ve got a guest post from Rudy Mazzocchi, entrepreneur and author of Storytelling: The Indispensable Art of Entrepreneurism. Mazzocchi established a career buying, building and selling multi-million dollar companies, and he has taken that experience and applied it to his fiction. In Storytelling, Mazzocchi “takes you on a journey which reveals how the development,… Read more
A very special contest for Paris Letters…
Check back later this week for a review of Paris Letters by Janice McLeod – in the meantime, check out this contest – you could win a one-of-a-kind painting based on your special travel photo! Check this out: Read more
Review: Labor Day by Joyce Maynard
Sometimes, I read a book and I think, “this would make a great movie!” Sometimes, I don’t want to see the movie, because I know that film and CGI will never match the story in my head. In the case of Labor Day by Joyce Maynard, I’m not sure I want to see the movie, because I don’t think Hollywood will get it… Read more
New on the Shelves…
Today’s new book is the next installment in the Family History Mystery Series, Death in Reel Time by Brynn Bonner: In this second Family History mystery, a professional genealogist realizes the family history she’s tracing may be repeating itself after her client’s son-in-law turns up dead. When genealogist duo Sophreena McClure and Esme Sabatier are hired to trace the family tree… Read more
Quotables
“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.” – John Wooden, American basketball player and coach That is a great description of my book problem: so many new books come in that they bury the older ones! There are classic books that I would love to go back and read, if only I… Read more
New on the Shelves…
I do love the bargains I can get on new books for my Kindle Fire – how did I ever live without one of these? Recently, I picked up Only The Innocent by Rachel Abbott: Every moment of Sir Hugo Fletcher’s life has been chronicled in the British press: his privileged upbringing, his high-profile charity work to end human trafficking—even his… Read more
New on the Shelves…
Now, I’ve got a new Charles Todd novel – Hunting Shadows. I got my first Inspector Ian Rutledge novel as a review copy and I have been hooked ever since. A dangerous case with ties leading back to the battlefields of World War I dredges up dark memories for Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge inHunting Shadows, a gripping and atmospheric historical… Read more