Posted in Writing on Aug 14th, 2009
When I got the contract to write my book two years ago, my husband teased me. “It’s like you’re in the NBA,” he said. “Every writer wants to be published, just like every basketball player dreams of being in the NBA. And you’re in.” It was true. By my own novice writer’s standard, I had [...]
Posted in Reading on Aug 4th, 2009
To further prove that I am not a finicky reader quick to find fault with other people’s writing, I hereby post this glowing recommendation of Lloyd Alexander’s The Black Cauldron. It won a Newbery Honor in 1966, for good reason. It’s well-written, has rich, nuanced characters, and is full of ambiguity. I’m not a huge [...]
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 [...]
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.
