Tag: fiction
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Organizing My Life: Writing, Publishing, and Personal Resolutions
We are on the eve of New Year’s Eve. So, perhaps it’s not too early to be looking ahead. On New Year’s Day, I will kick off the year right, with black-eyed peas, cabbage, and a few friends. And lots of wine. Having retired for the second time, I am looking forward to focusing on…
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Gooney Bird and All Her Charms, by Lois Lowry
This chapter book is part of an award-winning series. Gooney Bird is an eccentrically dressed second-grader with a Type A personality . She is surrounded by a number of outspoken prankster classmates and an infinitely patient teacher. Think Pippi Longstocking in Kindergarten Cop.
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YA Reads for January
All three of these novels are engaging, well-written and have characters of a similar age, social group, who need to be loved or admired for themselves.
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Cultural References as Shorthand
By cultural references, I mean quotes or plot devices from movies, books, TV shows; popular actors or fictional characters; and popular slang.
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Reading Louise Penney’s ‘A Great Reckoning’
As you know, when not writing you need to be reading. I try to read the spectrum of mystery fiction. But I have my favorites. This weekend I got to read the much anticipated twelfth book in Louise Penney’s series about former Chief Inspector Gamache. It did not disappoint. On back-order for several months, it arrived as I…
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Cue the Murder
I looked into grey-blue eyes and the concerned face of a blondish man in his late thirties or early forties. “Are you OK? Do you need a lift?”
Claire Hart-Palumbo 