Posted in Reading on Mar 12th, 2010
I just finished reading Raven’s Ladder, the latest installment in Jeffrey Overstreet’s Auralia Thread series. I am in awe of this man’s ability to imagine a whole world and then create it in words. I’m also in awe of his ability to hold so many story lines, keep them all in the air and full [...]
Last month at the Northwest Christian Writers Association, I met Jeanne Damoff, author of Parting the Waters: Finding Beauty in Brokenness. She was speaking about using the rules and breaking the rules to craft beautiful prose. I was so entranced by her delightful soft Texas drawl and her passionate words about beautiful writing that I [...]
Posted in Reading on Jul 21st, 2009
Given my last few posts, readers of this blog will doubtless think I am a finicky, picky reader. I’m really not. I swear. I’m actually quite forgiving of writers and will slog through most anything. Most of the time. Lucky for me, I didn’t have to slog through The Girl in the Orange Dress, Margot [...]
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.
