Dolce Bellezza (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
As December approaches, I prepare my heart for Christmas. But, I also prepare a post for the year’s reading that I’ve accomplished. How many pages have I read? How many books, in what genre, by which author? How many challenges have I completed? What were my favorite ten books of 2009? It’s exciting for me to review [...]
The Written World (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Twitter really is a wonderful place. You can credit it with the birth of a lot of things! Last night it inspired me to write this post, and since I could use some inspiration, I am going to take full advantage of it. One of my favourite authors when I was a young adult was Madeleine L'Engle. Over the years I have read most of her books and I encourage everyone to read her! I was on the library website...
Newton Reads (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Twelve year old Miranda lives in 1970’s Manhattan, with typical concerns about friends, boys, school–and helping her mom win the game show The $20,000 Pyramid. Then she starts receiving mysterious unsigned notes that give her instructions, appear to predict the future, and contain vague mentions of danger. What do they mean? Miranda’s favorite book is Madeleine [...]
Buried in the Slush Pile (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Like I said yesterday, a one page summary divulges the entire plot of your novel. Another word for it would be a plot summary. So, to help people understand what I mean by plot summaries, I went and found a few good ones on the web. The first one is the plot summary for Madeleine L'Engle's A Swiftly Tilting Planet . You can find it on wikipedia here . Just look at the part of the page labeled "Plot...
cynsations (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Michael Hemphill : "I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, but didn't know much about the Civil War until my wife and I moved to Virginia in 1997. "Here in Virginia, I worked as a newspaper reporter (where I met Sam) until 2000 when the first of our three daughters was born. Since, I've been a stay-at-home dad, directed a nonprofit, worked in public relations at a local university, co-owned a...
spookycyn (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Joy Preble is the first-time author of Dreaming Anastasia (Sourcebooks, 2009). From the promotional copy: Anastasia Romanov thought she would never feel more alone than when the gunfire started and her family began to fall around her. Surely the bullets would come for her next. But they didn't. Instead, two gnarled old hands reached for her. When she wakes up she discovers that she is in the ancient...
cynsations (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Joy Preble is the first-time author of Dreaming Anastasia (Sourcebooks, 2009). From the promotional copy: Anastasia Romanov thought she would never feel more alone than when the gunfire started and her family began to fall around her. Surely the bullets would come for her next. But they didn't. Instead, two gnarled old hands reached for her. When she wakes up she discovers that she is in the ancient...
Black Phoebe :: Ms. Jen (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Tues 11.03.09 - Regardless of whether you are participating in National ________ Posting/Writing Month or just reading/watching others, I think the best part of the November novel writing, blog posting, vlog posting, drawing, and any other permutation, is that daily practice really does hone one's creative skills and ingrains, in a good way, the habit of the activity. One of my favorite authors of...
My Name Is Kate (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
I have always been a voracious reader. Most of the summers of my youth I participated in our local library's reading challenge. You know the one - it usually had some kind of cheesy theme like "Discovered Hidden Treasure through...
The Kiddosphere @ Fauquier (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Children's Magazines Month will have to be unofficially extended to the first week of November. I was at the Virginia Library Association conference in Williamsburg Thursday-Friday. I loved listening to Tonya Bolden, winner of the Jefferson Cup, speak at the Jefferson Cup luncheon. BUT....the best part about the luncheon was that I was seated at the same table as Leonard Marcus ! Leonard Marcus was...
Kim Stagliano (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Writing, Ranting, Reading Writing My book is coming along pretty well. I got feedback from my editor that didn't start with, "We've burned your contract. What were we thinking?" which was a relief. Ranting I'm pretty annoyed with the soda/beverage industry. Have you seen the ridiculous ad against the Soda Tax - the angry Melina Kanakaredes looking model is with her child in the grocery store...
spookycyn (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Learn more about Lucienne Diver . What were you like as a teenager? What were your favorite books and why? I was/am a geek. A D&D playing, chorus-singing, braniac thespian. You know, the kind who took extra art and English classes because study hall and lunch were just wastes of time. I did junior high, high school and community theatre because, you know, all that homework wasn't enough to keep...
Andrew's Book Club (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
You worked for many years as a journalist. How did that experience prepare you to write fiction? Did it, in some part, influence your decision to use the third person, as well as the present tense, in these stories? Reporters learn to hunt details. I remember Rick Bragg’s New York Times profile citing the verse to [...]
Read Roger (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
It occurs to me that now that Robert Langdon has raced around Rome, Paris, and D.C. he ought to go to New York; precisely to Madeleine L'Engle's current residence, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. His readers would love her; hers, I'm not so sure about.
Running 'Cause I Can't Fly (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
"Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith, faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically." - Madeleine L'Engle
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