Ahh, a book and a beach
I just returned from a glorious trip to the beach that gave me plenty of time to catch up on my reading. (OK, some of my reading was done while …
What a festival it was
What did I do at the 2016 Dallas Book Festival? Exactly what everyone else did! I listened to authors speak and then hurried out to the bookstore The Wild Detectives …
New year, new projects
Hello, 2016. I’m back at work on Boys I Have Dated and some other exciting projects. (More about that later…) But in the meantime, I wanted to share a source …
Thank you, Alice Munro
When I heard Alice Munro had won the Nobel Prize for literature, I pulled my copy of The View From Castle Rock off the shelf, thinking I might open it …
My new favorite word
Numpty. I’m sure I’ve read the word before, but I fell in love with it recently when I heard David Tennant’s character utter it on the BBC mystery “Broadchurch.”* (What? …
Building some buzz
Identity is starting to pick up some buzz out there in the book blog world. Here are the latest developments: Know a voracious reader on a super-tight budget? Send them …
Sharlah loves the library, and so do I
Sharlah Webb, the protagonist of my novel Identity, is a big reader living on a tiny paycheck. She’s an avid user of her local public library. It’s not an exaggeration to …
I remember where I read that…
Do you have indelible memories of reading a certain book in a certain place? Geraldine Brooks’ People of the Book anchored me to my couch for an entire day. I could not …
Brave words
I’ve been thinking lately about the word “brave.” A few weeks ago, I read a book called Drunk on Sports, written by my former Dallas Morning News co-worker Tim Cowlishaw. …
And a few basketball books
Tonight is the NCAA men’s basketball championship game. After talking up a few baseball reads yesterday, it seems as though today I should discuss a few books about my favorite …