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Tag: books
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And the books lie in mouldering heaps
I was noodling around on the net and ran across a book last night. As I downloaded it, because it’s a Project Gutenburg book (free!), looks interesting, and I might read it, something occurred to me. We keep hearing that the book as a form of entertainment is dying. I know people who proudly proclaim…
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Blast from the Past: Sheer Twaddle
Originally posted in July 2013 When I first started writing stories for my children, my ex-husband looked at them and said “you’re using too many big words, you know.” Well, since I was told in highschool by my English teacher to stop using so many big words, this stung, and I started looking into how…
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Book Hoarding and Other Delights
There has never been a better time to be a reader. I’ve been reading since I was four, myself, which is a very small slice of the past when viewed in relative terms. But I am also a student of history. it wasn’t that long ago that books were individually precious, treasured and cared for…
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Review: Bureau of Substandards
This is actually going to be a triplet of reviews and a gripe. I spent most of yesterday under the weather (no, that’s not a gripe, that’s life, and I take it when my body says ‘rest now or else’ because else is usually pneumonia with me. I rested, and read) and I was having…
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Reviews on Hiatus
I’m not going to give up reviewing altogether. I’m stubborn, as you may have noticed. But I haven’t even had a few minutes here and there to pull up my Kindle app on the phone, it’s been that bad. So I am reluctantly admitting that I can’t do a weekly review. You’re likely to get…
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Free Fantasy Story
From today, through Friday, “The Dwarf’s Dryad” will be available free on Amazon! If you like fantasy, stories with a little romance, and a lot of intrigue, check this tale out. After all, it’s free, what do you have to lose? Don’t forget, after you read it, if you liked it, tip the author with…
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Amazing Art
I don’t have a lot of time today, but my dear First Reader sent me this link this morning and I spent some enraptured time looking at each one. Amazing, and evocative. I could write stories based off these. Simon Stalenhag’s Art
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Friday Review: Go West!
First, the sequel to Take the Star Road, last week’s review, is out! I haven’t started to read it yet, but I’m sure I will enjoy it just as much as the last book. Peter Grant also reviewed Vulcan’s Kittens, an unexpected pleasure for me, as I hadn’t anticipated he would want to read it,…
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Inspiring Children
I was invited to guest-blog over at Greta Burrough’s blog today, and I wrote a piece for her movement to inspire children to read, one book at a time. If you’re looking for ideas on how to get your children, or library patrons, or your students, to read more, head on over, and make sure…
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Safely in Ohio
The big move has been made, I am settling into a new home, and looking seriously at local colleges. I spent most of yesterday and today getting my office into something resembling a space I can use, and it’s looking good. The writing is on hold until this coming Monday, when I shall go back…
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New Post up at ASM
I wrote a blog about, basically, respecting our readers as writers. As a reader, I’d come across some things recently that irrtated me. Something to remember as I’m writing. Anyway, link is: http://amazingstoriesmag.com/2013/04/i-am-a-reader/ Also, Twisted Breath of God is still up, and free. Look here for Kindle Look here for Nook & others Here’s…
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Birth of the Kittens
Sometime in 2011, I recall, my oldest daughter Gladiana read a book she really, really liked. Being a dutiful mother-librarian, I helped her find the next one in the series. She absorbed every one of the books by this author she could find. And, because she loves me, and knows I love to read and…