Fallon meets Ben, an aspiring novelist, the day before her scheduled cross-country move. Their untimely… It Ain’t Me, Babe Sinning never felt so good… A fortuitous encounter. A meeting that should never have happened.… Confess Auburn Reed is determined to rebuild her shattered life and ...
The Nobel Prize in Literature, probably the most prestigious prize an author of books can aspire to, has been awarded annually (with some breaks) since 1901, with more than 115 winners. Alfred Nobel's will stipulated that the prize should go "to the person who shall have produced in the ...
I use Scrivener so I input how many words I need to write and when I need to get them done by. Scrivener then tells me how many words I need to write each day. I try to stick to that and if I write more than that in a day, it just means I’ll get to the magic number qui...
…the human race has two books, two registers, two testaments: masonry and printing; the Bible of stone and the Bible of paper. … The past must be reread upon these pages of marble. This book, written by architecture, must be admired and perused incessantly; but the grandeur of the ed...
Guided by her magic stone, she begins to feel grateful for her parents, friends, and toys. But when Betsy forgets to use the stone’s magic, she learns an important lesson: the true power of gratitude has been within her heart all along. Those Shoes(Open Link in new tab) by Maribeth...
but they would not, as they continued to maliciously challenge her emotional sanity of reality. With her empathic emotions shattered between her ex-boyfriend’s deceit and then her father’s death, Cait has no choice and takes one tiny sleeping pill to stop the pain…and gets more than she...
The book is similar to The Hunger Games in that a group of teenagers are pitted against each in a battle to the death, so that their families can control the magical power from a wellspring, but the teenagers can use magic. The book is told from the point of view of a few teenagers...
Brandon Sanderson’sThe Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archives #1)introduced us to a spectacular new fantasy series, a world where “shards” bestow magical power (in the form of marvelous swords and suits of armor) and armies battle it out on The Shattered Plains. ...
There just aren’t enough books set during modern times that happen to be Japanese American! Japanese culture comes through a veil of humor, making this similar to the Alvin Ho series by Lenore Look. In this first book, Jasmine is too young to participate in the New Year’s mochi ...
These are the tropes of an era, similar to the first edition of Brighton Rock, which featured a Jewish Mr. Big in a seafront hotel (later editions turned him into an Italian, as if that made it all right). The narrator of The Case is Altered notes that “you can never make out ...