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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 …
I haven’t been online much in the past couple of days because of a cold that makes my itchy eyes balk at the sight of a computer screen. However, I’ve been using some of this time, appropriately enough, to start reading The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, by Nicholas Carr. It’s …
Congratulations to Kim for winning a free copy of Christine Fonseca’s 101 Success Secrets for Gifted Kids! To choose the winner, I used a random list generator at random.org. Thank you to everyone who commented on Christine’s interview.
I’m eager to read the new book A Jane Austen Education, by William Deresiewicz (see videos at the end of this post for more information), in part because my husband, who re-reads all of Austen’s novels every time he teaches them—and has read Pride and Prejudice roughly two dozen times—delivers a killer Jane Austen course. …
This morning I had finished my morning pages, replied to emails and blog comments and bookmarked new blog posts for later reading (I’m loving the Read It Later Firefox add-on), and sat down to do 30 minutes of motivational reading before plunging into my writing project. I opened Sage Cohen’s The Productive Writer to chapter …