This morning in a moment of weakness I decided to at least glance at an author’s blog that I usually enjoy (currently I’m in strict off-blog mode so I can do my work), and I found a fight going on that really makes me sick to my stomach. I won’t tell you which blog [...]
Yes, I know it’s Tuesday Book Club tomorrow, but it’s almost 10:00 PM here, and I’m being picked up at 7:30 AM tomorrow to begin a day with three school visits in Palo Alto, CA (truly a gorgeous place), set up by Kepler’s Bookstore (truly an AMAZING place), and so I’ll be busy talking my [...]
Still doing the slow savor on T.H. White’s The Once and Future King. So masterful. And funny. And such an excellent study of human nature. LOVE it, always have loved it, will continue to reread this throughout my life.
Also read Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth: Awakening to Your [...]
Yes, I know–I’ve missed it, too. But I’m torn: on the one hand, it’s really, really good for me to have my brain fully in my current project, and basically cut myself off from the world for a while. That’s just how it works best for me. On the other hand, [...]
Today’s book club selection from me gets double-bookmarked under Reading and Jane Austen Geekery. Because if you’re a huge fan of the BBC version (the Colin Firth version) of Pride and Prejudice, you need to give yourself the new treat of renting the BBC series North and South. Why? Because it’s romantic [...]
Thank goodness for audio books on road trips. Listened to one up, one back, and they just made the miles fly by.
You know that TV show Medium? It’s based on the real life of Allison DuBois, who lives in Phoenix, Arizona, and who has been able to see and speak with the dead [...]
One of the things I love so much about my job is that so often the books I want to read do double-duty as research for novels I’m either working on or want to write.
So this week I got to read two more of Dr. Brian Weiss’s books about reincarnation: Same Soul, Many Bodies [...]
I’ve seriously been in a non-fiction mood this whole year so far. Maybe it’s because I was writing my own novel into January, and now I’m about to start writing another one next week, as soon as the workmen leave my house and I can think of something clever besides BANG BANG BANG POUND [...]
As I mentioned on Tuesday Book Club day, I was totally inspired by Julia Cameron’s latest book, The Writing Diet, to rethink some of my choices. The main one being the massive eating of sugar, which I have enjoyed on an ever-increasing basis since about a year ago. Somehow that felt like the [...]
I wasn’t sure if I’d like it, and I loved it.
Julia Cameron’s latest book, The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size.
Why did I think I wouldn’t like it? I’ve loved all her creativity books, beginning with The Artist’s Way, which completely transformed my life as a writer. In fact, it made me a [...]
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