Posted in Reading on Jul 14th, 2009
In my last post, I mentioned two literary novels that I’d read on my vacation and found…uninspiring. The second of these books was the better of the two, largely because it had an amazing ending. That richly satisfying ending transfigured the whole rest of the book, which I’d found a bit of a slog while [...]
Posted in Reading on Jul 10th, 2009
I read two novels on my vacation at Ross Lake that would be considered “literary.” I feel like an ignorant rube, an uncultured, unrefined, uneducated boor: I don’t really like literary novels. I find them, ahem, boring. Or at least, I found these two boring. If I hadn’t been stranded in the middle of nowhere [...]
I sent Agent #2 the same query letter as Agent #1 (after adding a very sincere “thank you,” of course). She requested a partial! I guess that whole thank you thing is really, really important. To have this agent (only the second I’d queried!) request a partial is huge—it confirmed that my story is interesting [...]
I am a reader (I feel about books the way some people feel about chocolate: yum), a writer (I've written a book, even: The Circle of Seasons: Meeting God in the Church Year), and a mother (of four). So that's what I blog about: reading, writing, and raising my kids.