So this What I’m Into Post encompasses a few months, not just March! What I’m Watching Downton Abbey – My mom had been talking about Downton Abbey forever, so a while back I finally watched all the previous seasons on Netflix and I was ready for the new season in January! What a fantastic season …
Tag: reading
Book Talk: Station Eleven
This magnificent and intriguing novel by Emily St. John Mandel opens with the line, “The king stood in a pool of blue light, unmoored.” I like catchy and mysterious first lines, and this was one. The setting was, in fact, not a true kingdom, but a stage, and the book character Arthur Leander was playing …
Writing Lessons: Reading as a Writer
** So I may be starting a series(ish) on writing. We’ll see how this goes. I don’t have a particular day of the week or length of time in mind. But posts titled Writing Lessons will be about different things I’ve learned from living a writer’s life. You guys know that I am an avid …
Lost
Back in June, the Atlantic published a fascinating article about the confidence gap between men and women. My boss (a female) sent it to me. We both found the article to be so true. Some of the big points I remembered were that men tended to be overconfident while women tended to be under-confident. When …
What I’m Into – May Edition
Today I’m linking up with Leigh Kramer’s monthly What I’m Into link-up. TV House of Cards. This show is like the accident on the highway that you know you shouldn’t stare at but you just can’t stop yourself. Francis and Claire Underwood are ruthless and manipulative. Yet I just can’t stop watching. The thing is, …