“What’s your favorite…?” was a common game among myself and my siblings when I was growing up. When it comes to the question What’s your favorite time of the day?, I don’t think my answer has changed at all over the years. It’s still: Reading time. I tease sometimes about how I guard my morning writing time with a flamethrower […]
My Top 10 Favorite Things From 2015
(Note: All Amazon links are affiliate links.) My time goes by in such a rush that I often look up at the beginning of a new year, stunned to realize the last year all but disappeared on me. One of my favorite things to do in January is look back on all the memories that stand […]
6 Things That Have My Attention This Week
What’s got my attention this week? (Note: All Amazon links are affiliate links.) Book: Scarlet by Marissa Meyer I’m always drawn to reboots of fairy tales, but they’re so seldom done with any verve that it’s always exciting to find the exception. I enjoyed the first installment in Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles, but the second–her sci-fi YA […]
6 Things I’m Reading, Watching, Doing This Week
What’s got my attention this week? (Note: All Amazon links are affiliate links.) Book: Washington Square by Henry James I’m to the Js in my pursuit of the classic authors, and this early novel by James is surprising me with its darkly comic look at a hapless debutante. It’s a great example of what William C. Martell talks […]