by Nicole | Mar 8, 2010 | Book Reviews
Love Finds You in Poetry, Texas, by Janice Hanna is a delightful read with great word play and ties to the town’s name: Poetry. The stores are named Bonnets and Sonnets, Poetic Notions and such. The main character uses poetry to woo women to come to Texas as...
by Nicole | Mar 4, 2010 | Writing
My “to-read” pile seems to double every week. My “to-read” list grows exponentially. (And that’s if I don’t surf around Amazon for more than five minutes.) What to do? Reading is so essential to the writer, for inspiration and...
by Nicole | Mar 1, 2010 | Book Reviews, History
Sarah’s Key, by Tatiana de Rosnay (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2008) is a World War II epic that will stick with you long after you finish the last page. The story weaves in the 1942 roundup of French Jews by the French Vichy Police and their expulsion to their deaths in...
by Nicole | Feb 26, 2010 | Writing
A few days ago, I had a friend ask, “You’re a writer, right? Would you look at this thing I wrote…but don’t tell anyone!” I was so excited to hear that she’d been writing – not every writer is a creative writing major and been...
by Nicole | Feb 25, 2010 | Book Reviews
No, I’m not fashioning some sort of clothing item called “book review shorts…” What I mean is, here is a quick rundown of what I’ve been reading in the past few weeks. Each definitely deserves its full review and lengthy description, but I hope to include more in my...
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