Tag: reading
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Nerves, Remakeries, and a Very Cold Case
This is a link round-up of articles I ran across that look interesting. The first one is actually related to why I do link round-ups… and it’s not just because I’m too tired to think straight by the time I get home at night! Derek Lowe’s column is one of my daily reads, but I…
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Quitting Time
This is a follow-up to a post I wrote last week, at the Mad Genius Club. In it, I talked about how I’d learned to quit books. It’s not that I’m quitting reading, oh, no. What I did was learn how to put a bad book down instead of letting it suck part of my…
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Review: Grunge and Others
I’ll be back around again later with another review, but so far this morning has been spent with my newly-minted 16 year-old daughter in the kitchen making her birthday cake. From scratch. Why, yes, she is awesome, and I’m very proud of her. Over the weekend I was sick, so I read books. I made…
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The Reader Makes the Book
I’ve known for a long time that every reader sees a book differently. I may really enjoy a book that makes you want to hold your nose with one hand and gingerly pick it up with thumb and forefinger of the other hand to transport rapidly to the trash. It’s part of the reason I…
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They’re Back!
The Geeky Kids ride again! I’ve returned from the long trip with stories, adventures, and three of my children. I’m exhausted. It’s so exciting to have them here, and I will reprise last year’s special summer blogs where we do geeky stuff and I write about it for other families with geeky kids to get…
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Eat This While You Read That: Jim Baen
Writing this post made me reflect on missed opportunities. I never got to meet Jim Baen in person. I would have liked to, and to take him pecan sandies, which I knew were his favorites. Sadly, I couldn’t travel, and then, he was gone. But he’ll never be forgotten and I wanted to pay…
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Reading, Writing, and Priming the Pump
Since the end of school, I’ve been catching up on my reading. It’s been a pleasant two days, so far, and today winds up my scheduled ‘break’ before I kick off a summer writing frenzy. At first I was reading for the sheer joy of having time I could waste on books that made me…
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Bookstores
I’ve had a lifelong love of bookstores. Yesterday I had a small epiphany and realized that this love is still there, but it has changed… What triggered the thoughts about bookstores was sitting at a table chatting with passers-by about my books. I had paper copies of them arranged on the table in front of…
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Curmudgeon’s Corner: Expectations
Written by Sanford Begley I’m reading the second book by a new author. I won’t tell you who because it doesn’t matter. I have barely started it and am already disappointed. Not because it isn’t a good book, it is so far. And not because it isn’t as well written as the first, actually I…
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Review Roundup
Today’s reviews are a diverse selection. No matter what your tastes, there is likely to be a pleaser in here! For a fun, flirty romantic short story, try Inappropriate Behavior. I designed the cover, and reading this wasn’t something I would have done normally, but I’m happy I took the chance. A contemporary romance with more…
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Broad Reading
I’ve talked on the blog and elsewhere many times about the importance of reading if you plan to become a good writer. I’m sure you can write without reading – well, knowing how to read seems to be a requirement, but reading other works is technically optional. Stephanie Souders wrote a wonderful essay about this…