“If the issues your story deals with are non-fantasy issues, why bring the fantasy in at all?” asks Pat Bowne in an article at The Royal Academy at Osyth Blog.…Continue readingIs Fantasy Necessary?
Where else could book people be married but in the bookstore where they work. Well, right behind the bookstore — on the green — with the reception, of course, in…Continue readingIt took a Village…Books
Perhaps in publishing… Well, perhaps in digital publishing anyhow. Emily Parkhurst, a staff writer for the Puget Sound Business Journal, believes Seattle is moving in on the Big Apple to…Continue readingSeattle, the next New York?
The art of seeing has to be learned, Alexandra Horowitz tells us in her book, ‘On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes.’ The book is a record of her walks…Continue readingThe Art of really seeing
Reading between the lines 12 Cats Serious About Reading —– Literally killing the language Google now defines the word ‘literally’ as meaning the opposite of its true definition. If you…Continue readingCats Who Are Serious About Reading
Isabel Allende sat down with David Frost and gave an intimate, occasionally sad and frequently humorous insight into her life. I feel a connection with Isabel in a fundamental way…Continue readingIsabel Allende: ‘Forever a foreigner’
From heart-breaking love letters and heart-warming thank you cards, to notes veering on creepy. Curious Things Found In Library Books —– Ann Patchett on the Post, in the Post In…Continue readingWho would leave that in a library book?