It’s NaNoWriMo in less than one day and five hours. Either you’re dreaming, scheming, brainstorming, and/or outlining, but hopefully not terrorizing. If none of those words means anything to you and you’re participating in NaNoWriMo, you’re either very confident and have lots of creative, brilliant ideas or haven’t got a blasted clue what you’re going […]
Here’s a beautiful bright blue-bottle of Greek mineral water. The blue-bottle matches the magnificent color of the sea and the sky in Greece. That might sound cliché but it’s the truth. Water tastes good too! It was foreign to me in the beginning and then I started to order it everywhere we went. Don’t ask […]
Davidia Jones’s voice takes us through her difficult life living with her mean and brutal mother in a small town called Glass, Mississippi. She is a constant victim of bullying through middle school and high school, but still manages to fall head over heels in love with a gorgeous football player, who is new at […]
What’s NaNoWriMo? Well, it’s National Novel Writing Month. The intention is to write a 50,000 word-novel during the entire month of November. All the real writing must start on November 1 and finish on November 30 at midnight. Participants can write in the language they choose. This is an international competition. Last year, there were […]
I finally finished the second book of the year for my book club, The Paris Wife. Frankly, I’m not really sure about this book. At the end, it left me wondering what Paula McLain was really trying to tell me. I’m sure she must have a secret crush on Hemingway. The Paris Wife is a […]
Here you have it the winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 is Hilary Mantel for Bring Up the Bodies. She is the first British woman to have won this prize twice. If that isn’t incentive to read her work, what else do you need. I must admit I’m encouraged and will probably start with […]
The saga continues of Sookie Stackhouse…..My God I can’t believe how much Sookie is beaten, kicked, staked and what have you in these two books. Living Dead in Dallas is definitely a huge rollercoaster ride of suspense. However, I found that Club Dead was not nearly as exciting. The couple, Sookie and Bill is missing […]
One of my good friends has been bugging me to read this for such a long time now that I can’t even believe I’ve finally gotten to it. You know who you are. One of my book club buddies brought the first three books of the Sookie Stackhouse series and dropped them in front of […]
Eyelet ruffles, black chiffon, mother-of-pearl buttons, brooches, Italian knit suits, housedresses, brown Weejuns, regal gowns…. Do the clothes make the woman? We’ve heard phrases uttered many times to this effect. I guess I would answer it can help in certain circumstances. As for The Secret Lives of Dresses it seems to help Dora the principal […]
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