Stella Mare is certainly a small town. I grew up in a small town. A tiny little city based on the form of government, but you might have called it a village if you went by local dynamics. Yes, everyone knew everyone else, or at least knew something about everyone, not always something flattering. People…
What I’m Reading….
Reading update
Yes, only two weeks ago I asserted here on this page (in public!) that I would be keeping track of my reading this year. Yeah. So I better do some updating. Goodreads tries to assist, but I don’t read everything on the Kindle, heretical as that may be. Just finished: The Good Daughters, Joyce Maynard….
This is the year….
that I’m going to keep track of what I read. Fiction: so far in 2022 (and it is already January 5), I have started to re-read Frank Herbert’s Dune. This is re-reading because I inhaled Dune sometime in the early 1970s, but I was young, omnivorous and less-than-discerning. I also didn’t remember much about the…
Sleeping With Ward Cleaver
by Jenny Gardiner Well, here’s a fun book. The protagonist spends a lot of time seeing her husband as a caricature, like the Beaver’s dad in the 1960s sitcom. Do you remember the Cleavers? June Cleaver wore “housedresses” all the time, and heels, and her hair was perfectly curled. Wally was the officious older brother,…
What I’m reading
Secrets & Lies, LC Rooney This book grabbed me by the throat right away, with a tongue-in-cheek and very likeable protagonist who clearly has been in trouble before, is in trouble now, and will most certainly be in trouble again. The author is brilliant at creating perfect scenes that carry the story along and then…plop…drop…
And in other reading news….
And in other news, I read Katie Winters’ book, The Sunrise Cove Inn. This is a book about three sisters and includes hot tropes like an old, dilapidated inn on the east coast in a trendy area (in this case, Martha’s Vineyard), old boyfriends looking good, and lots of family drama. The plot set-up is…
What I’m Reading….
Last week, I read The Story of Keilah by Joann Keder. This novel was mysterious and somewhat dark. I did understand fairly early that it was being told from the point of view of a person who had been quite traumatized. That’s a hard thing to write, especially if the person has memory gaps or…
Soft Launch…
I am vibrating with excitement. My first novel is up in paperback format on Amazon, ready for readers. The feeling reminds me of a moment nineteen years ago when I was standing in Portland, Maine, by the waterfront in shorts and t-shirt, waiting with a bunch of other well-dressed people, for the start of the…
Read with me….
I could probably do a better job of documenting my reading life, but if I did, I’d have to take notice of how much time I currently spend reading. Note: time spent reading is not time spent writing. Note number two: no time spent reading is wasted. Now that I have become an inveterate reader…
I DID write about Erica Jong…
but it wasn’t here… Yesterday, I noted that I’d recently written something about my search for Fear of Flying, but it turns out that was only in my journaled morning pages. It is a funny story, albeit a small amusement, so I’ll regale you. I read Amy Meyerson’s Bookshop of Yesterdays recently on my beloved…