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To a writer, there is nothing worse than a blinking cursor on a blank screen. I watch that cursor, hoping against hope it will suddenly fly across the page, running for its life from a stream of brilliant words. Instead it resolutely sits there, flashing “fail-ure” with every beat. When the sound finally reaches a … Continue reading
So, here I am, writing about writing when I should be writing. Mark, my cousin, writing buddy and mentor, gently chastised me for not posting about my writing. There are a myriad of reasons why I don’t generally share, the primary one being I’m not sure I have anything interesting to offer on the subject. … Continue reading
I’ve never been a huge Marilyn Monroe fan. I don’t dislike her, necessarily, but I’ve never bought into the pop culture obsession with her. She was an average actress with an incredible figure and loads of sex appeal, the latter two things being what made her a star. More than contributing anything of substance to … Continue reading
Bitcoin for Dummies should have been titled, “Kalinda is Made of Awesome” because it highlighted everything we love about our taciturn investigator. She’s damn good at her job. It was a brilliant piece of deduction that led her to the realization that all three of her “suspects” were Mr. Bitcoin. I didn’t catch it until … Continue reading
The Mentalist almost did it. They were thisclose to having the team solve a case – a ridiculously pedestrian, uninteresting case – without a shred of Jane’s help. Police work was being done. Leads followed. Suspects interviewed. Manipulative stings conceived and carried out without a hitch. All while Jane was distracted by something bigger and … Continue reading
This year, I resolved to make no resolutions in my reading life. I tried setting goals last year when I signed up to participate in a couple of reading challenges. All I got out of that was a newfound dislike for one of my favorite author’s few novels. Not what you would call successful. I … Continue reading
Book Description: January 1946: writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name. I read The Guernsey Literary and … Continue reading
I have added Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy to my list of books to re-read because not only did I enjoy it immensely, but also because, due to spy double speak, I fear there is much that went on I didn’t understand or comprehend. I doubt that the movie adaptation to be released in November … Continue reading
A Dance with Dragons, the fifth novel in Martin’s A Song of Fire and Ice series, was published back in July. I wasn’t in the mood for Westeros at that time so I put off reading it. I forgot all about it until I saw a repeat episode of HBO’s adaptation of the first novel … Continue reading
