So you guys know I really have no formal training in fiction writing. (My MFA focus was poetry.) But, I read a lot and I’ve been paying attention why I like or dislike novels or parts of novels. Sometimes, I think the setting keeps me from enjoying the story. Right now I am reading …
Tag: novels
My Summer Reads
I’ve read quite a bit this summer, although not as much as I wanted to! Last summer I read 18 books total, mostly YA novels. This year my choices were more eclectic, with a combination of YA, literary novels, chick lit, and non-fiction. If you count a few books I read right at the end …
Date With a Bookworm
Steven’s parents wanted the kids this weekend, so Steven and I have had 2 date nights! We have two typical kinds of date nights: Dinner and a Movie, or Dinner and a Bookstore. Yes, I know. We’re so exciting. On Friday we couldn’t agree on a movie to see, so I suggested going to a …
Caught Between Places
One of the panels I went to at the Southern Festival of Books was titled Our Feet May Leave, But Not Our Hearts – Stories of Home and Place (I know, kinda cheesy title, but it was YA novelists so I was hooked), and the panelists were Silas House and Meg Medina. I’d heard of Silas …
Book Month Challenge Day 25: Favorite Book You Read In School
This entry is part 25 of 31 in the series Book Month Challenge (2012)Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. My senior year in high school I took a class called 20th Century History. It was awesome. The teacher, Mr. Bradshaw, was so cool. He was one of those teachers that makes you want to come to …