I really enjoyed doing my regular Sunday feature, Quotables, but I’ve been doing it for a couple of years now and I’ve begun to feel like I want to try something new. So for 2017, we’re going to look at First Words – the first lines of famous books, of the books on my shelves, of books I want to… Read more
A friend of mine pointed this story out to me: All Romance E-books closing down and ripping off its authors The gist of the story is this: the website, All Romance E-books (ARe) is closing down as of 12/31/2016. That would be bad news no matter what – I love the way that ebooks and self-publishing have given us such… Read more
I wanted to share this article from Bustle.com because I think it’s really important. I remember reading some jerk whining about the new Ghostbusters movie (for the record: very funny). He was whinging about how there were no characters that his young son could look up to — apparently because the main characters were all women. There was a lot of… Read more
Strange fact: as a kid, I had goldfish named Kris and Rita. I knew who Kris Kristofferson was, and I had some vague idea who Rita Coolidge was – mostly I knew there was an epic romance there. That more than anything prompted me to read Delta Lady: A Memoir by Rita Coolidge with Michael Walker. What I liked about the way Coolidge… Read more
From BBC/Culture: 10 Lost Books you Should Read Now I am really interested in The Glass Pearls and The Vet’s Daughter! Read more
I don’t think I requested this one, but it certainly sounds good – The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick: Sixty-nine-year-old Arthur Pepper lives a simple life. He gets out of bed at precisely 7:30 a.m., just as he did when his wife, Miriam, was alive. He dresses in the same gray slacks and mustard sweater vest, waters his… Read more
A friend of mine pointed this out and I wanted to share it with you – check out this deal from Tor.com: Tor.com is happy to announce the TOR.COM EBOOK CLUB, which we, as people who can’t stop reading, writing, and publishing stories, are very much excited about! Check out Tor’s website for more information! I’ve already downloaded my free book… Read more
Boy, do I have a backlog of books to tell you about! Let’s start with one that’s still sitting on my desk – Don’t You Cry by Mary Kubica In downtown Chicago, a young woman named Esther Vaughan disappears from her apartment without a trace. A haunting letter addressed to My Dearest is found among her possessions, leaving her friend and… Read more