Since turning the last page of William Deresiewicz’s A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter, I’ve been thinking of how to begin a short review of the book, which I found to be candid, insightful, and refreshingly well-written in that Orwellian windowpane kind of …
I’m typing this post in a Word document (opened to fill half the screen), while in the background my Firefox browser has not one, not two, but fifteen tabs calling to be opened, tugging at my attention like a two year old hanging on my leg: Gmail Goodreads A Sear Portrait coupon I’d clicked on …
“I am planning to get so much writing done today. But first…” Be sure to go to Writer Unboxed for a wonderful new comic by Debbie Ohi (Inkygirl): A Cautionary Comic for Writers. Think of it as The Shallows: Part IV Other posts in The Shallows book review series: The Shallows, Part I: My Return …
Today I finished reading Solomon’s Oak, a beautiful novel by Jo-Ann Mapson. Solomon’s Oak introduces us to three characters who have each suffered loss: Glory, a recent widow struggling to keep her California farm; Juniper, a foster teen haunted by a family tragedy; and Joseph, a former police officer who bears the scars of a …
The Shallows, Part III: Making Hay While the Sun Shines I’m still a farm girl at heart. The county where I grew up has a population density of six people per square mile, and I was one of three student in my class through eighth grade. Most of my summers were spent either reading or …