As I've mentioned before, I write book reviews for the Sacramento Book Review. I only review books for kids -- young adult, middle grade, and picture books. It's great fun and I get to read many books I might not run across otherwise. Recently I reviewed a fabulous picture book called You Can't Eat a… Continue reading You Can’t Eat a Princess Review and Interview with Author Gillian Rogerson
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Two Good Books — Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt and The Lost Mother by Mary McGarry Morris
This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again. ~ Oscar WildeAs you may have read in my last post, I’d been having more days like this one of Oscar Wilde’s than I’d like, but just lately, I have to say, “I’m back!” I’m writing a lot and… Continue reading Two Good Books — Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt and The Lost Mother by Mary McGarry Morris
The Mother of All Funks or Putting the Fun Back in DisFUNctional
If you are reading this in your email, don’t forget to click on the headline to go to my blog. If you haven’t subscribed yet, please do. Oh, and I love comments.Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not… Continue reading The Mother of All Funks or Putting the Fun Back in DisFUNctional
Something We Should Read Every Now and Then
Today, I leave the writing to one of the greatest writers in our history, Thomas Jefferson.The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of… Continue reading Something We Should Read Every Now and Then
It’s Okay to Know Everything: A Review of I’ll Be There by Holly Goldberg Sloan
If you are reading this in your email, don’t forget to click on the headline to go to my blog. If you haven’t subscribed yet, please do. Oh, and I love comments.Some years ago when I first began writing seriously, I got together with a few others and we tried to start a critique group.… Continue reading It’s Okay to Know Everything: A Review of I’ll Be There by Holly Goldberg Sloan
A Couple of Things and a Review of Chris Crutcher’s Angry Management
If you are reading this in your email, don’t forget to click on the headline to go to my blog so you'll be counted as a reader. If you haven’t subscribed yet, please do.It’s been a bit of a gap since my last post, but I’ve been very busy with reading and writing and baseball.… Continue reading A Couple of Things and a Review of Chris Crutcher’s Angry Management
Land of a Hundred Wonders by Lesley Kagen — A Book Review
If you are reading this in your email, don’t forget to click on the headline to go to my blog. If you haven’t subscribed yet, please do.A year or so ago, my sister Tudy gave me a book she had enjoyed: Whistling in the Dark by Lesley Kagen. I was transported to a small town… Continue reading Land of a Hundred Wonders by Lesley Kagen — A Book Review
A Highlights Founders Workshop with Peter Jacobi
If you are reading this in your email, don’t forget to click on the headline to go to my blog. If you haven’t subscribed yet, please do.I spent four days last week in Boyds Mills, Pennsylvania at a terrific workshop for writers of non-fiction. The wonderful people from Highlights Magazine run a series of workshops… Continue reading A Highlights Founders Workshop with Peter Jacobi
Visiting My Old Friend Laura Ingalls Wilder
If you are reading this in your email, don’t forget to click on the headline to go to my blog. If you haven’t subscribed yet, please do."A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity, and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at… Continue reading Visiting My Old Friend Laura Ingalls Wilder
Interview with Jame Richards, Writer Extraordinaire
If you are reading this in your email, don’t forget to click on the headline to go to my blog. If you haven’t subscribed yet, please do.A couple of posts ago, I reviewed a book I LOVE called Three Rivers Rising: A Novel of the Johnstown Flood by Jame Richards. If you haven’t read this… Continue reading Interview with Jame Richards, Writer Extraordinaire
