I knew Long John Silver and Dr. Jekyll, but I didn’t know David Balfour. I had also made some assumptions about the book “Kidnapped” by Robert Louis Stevenson. I thought…
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I just finished a memoir called “Paris in Love” by Eloisa James. It was assigned by my book group and not something I would have picked up otherwise. It relates…
Evaluation of Disney World Books and Advice: MouseJunkies! (second edition) by Bill Burke This isn’t as much of a guide as it is giving you permission to be goofy. Or…
Review of The Nerdist Way by Chris Hardwick When I first started reading Chris’s self-help book for nerds, I thought, “no! he’s stolen my idea for the Gamer’s Guide for Real…
Book Review of The Future of Us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler The premise of this YA book caught my attention. In 1996, a high school student uses an America…
This week I investigated Ravelry. This is an online social network for knitters and crocheters (is that a word? it doesn’t look right- people who crochet, let me know what…
So I have finished Brandon Sanderson’s 1,001 page opus, “The Way of Kings”. He has begun his story. This man is a world-builder and a character creator. If I was…
I was halfway through the book before I realized that Stephen King’s On Writing is basically an auto-biography (the copy I have has been labeled Dewey Decimal 92, instead of 808…
Book review:
How to Become a Famous Writer Before You’re Dead: Your Words in Print, Your Name in Lights by Ariel Gore.
Becoming a famous writer isn’t about selling celebrity secrets or field-tackling literary agents at conventions. Reading this book was like having a wild, shameless writer grab you by the hand and run into the world of being published.
