Category: Reading
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Writers: Roll the dice to see where your writing life takes you
The Los Angeles Times recently surveyed writers participating in the L.A. Times Festival of Books about their path to literary success. The result can be seen the creation of a unique board game that lets you play along. The board game cites interesting results along the way, including: the age respondents decided…
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Reading and Writing Around the Web: The Nonfiction Edition
Every day I scour the web for interesting articles, tips, and just great reads. Most of what I’ll share concern reading or writing, books, movies and TV, because that’s what I’m into. If you see something worth reading or care to discuss a topic, just leave a comment. I may…
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Book review: Dragonfish weaves noir, memoir into thrilling read
Review by G. Robert Frazier Dragonfish, like Gone Girl, is two interconnected stories in one – and both are thoroughly engrossing. Written by Vu Tran, the novel is part noir-crime thriller and part literary memoir. At the heart of both stories is Suzy, a Vietnamese woman haunted by her past…
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Reading and Writing Around The Web: The Author Edition
Welcome to another edition of Reading and Writing Around the Web. This time, I thought I’d take a look at some authors who have been in the news and share some interesting articles about each. Go Set A Watchman and Harper Lee Everyone seems to have a take on Harper…
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What’s on your reading list? Mine just grew…again.
My reading list just grew by two books, courtesy of the folks at Killer Nashville. First up is Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart, a historical suspense novel about one woman’s efforts to defend her family and way of life against a silk factory owner. Next on the reading…
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Review: Gray Lady a unique, warm story of family, friends, life
Home is where stories happen. Where lives, young and old, come together. Where lives are celebrated, changed forever, mourned, and remembered. Where birthdays are observed, Christmas presents opened, children conceived, marriages endured or shattered. Where the events of the day are witnessed, recapped, debated, and put in perspective. Where laughs…
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Reading and Writing Around the Web for 7/31
Every day I scour the web for interesting articles, writing tips, and just great reads. It’s all part of my ongoing effort to learn more about the craft of writing. A lot of these come from email newsletters I subscribe to or from my Facebook newsfeed. From time to time…
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Bargain ebook shopping good way to discover new authors
I recently came across this interesting article about bargain ebook buyers, who they are, what they’re reading and so on. Take a moment to read it, I’ll wait…. OK, back with me? Good. Personally, I fall in the category of “see a good bargain, snatch it up, read it later.” In…
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Ellery Queen, Alfred Hitchcock mystery magazines are a steal
I only occasionally purchase Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock mystery magazines. Not because I don’t want to, mind you, but because I’ve got so much other material to read already (including back issues I still haven’t finished yet.) But, obsessed with reading as I am, when I saw a recent…
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Reading and Writing Around the Web 7/27
Today we’ll celebrate three icons of the written word in Reading and Writing Around the Web. First up, Agatha Christie fans will be excited to know that Lifetime is partnering with BBC One on a miniseries adaptation of the best-selling crime novelist’s And Then There Were None. The cast includes Douglas Booth, Charles…
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