So, I’ll be away the next week… The blog will be abandoned like an Old West town… Or an ancient ruin. ::cue tumbleweed:: I’m going to EGYPT! With the Frenchman! It was a totally last minute idea, but I can’t express to you how excited I am. I’ve always wanted to see Thebes (a.k.a. Luxor), […]
* Happy Holidays to You All! May you enjoy the rest of your 2010, and may your 2011 brings lots of love, joy, and laughter. * Now, enough with the cheesy, holiday card words. While I’ve got you here, I want to send you on over to Let the Words Flow! We’re doing some holiday […]
Maybe I’m out of the loop or just plain oblivious, but I had no idea that Nancy Drew was still alive and kicking. I thought her reign as Queen Teen Detective had ended ages ago… Apparently not. She’s been around in graphic novel form for a few years now… Huh…who’d have thunk it. Now, I’ll […]
Heroes. Real, genuine heroes — the people who live and breathe like the rest of us, but somehow stand apart. Stand taller. Earn our admiration and respect. In Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook, Donald Maass starts off by asking you to list your heroes. Why are they are your heroes? What about them is heroic […]
~TRY~ What do you want to try next year? Is there something you wanted to try in 2010? What happened when you did / didn’t go for it? This next year, 2011, I really want to try speaking more German. Honestly: it’s embarrassing how bad my German is after living here 1.5 years. I never […]
5 out of 5 stars. Lee Nichol’s Deception is a read-in-0ne-sitting kinda book. Eerie, exciting, and in possession of a truly Swoon-Worthy Guy, this is a great twist on paranormal YA. Emma is home alone after her parents run off to visit her brother, and her antique-shop house is getting kinda creepy… Weird visions and […]
We’re in Wien, Österreich (a.k.a. Vienna, Austria) today, visiting the beautiful palaces and museums.
I thought it’d be fun to hear your opinions on something that I hold very near to my heart: Good-Looking Guys Yeah, I know you were probably expecting something profound or life-altering, but I’m not a very profound person and my life is pretty static.
5 out of 5 stars. At a LTWF contributor’s suggestion (Savannah Foley’s), I picked up Max Brook’s World War Z. And then I didn’t put it down until I had finished it. It was that amazing; that terrifying; and that real. Nightmares-for-days real. Planning-my-own-zombie-escape-route real. I-can’t-comprehend-such-creativity real. The book is told as a series of […]
Queen Duma here. I have confiscated the computer from Little Sooz today. Now that her book has sold and she is being bathed in congratulatory praise, ’tis time I confess the ugly truth behind Sooz’s books: