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Category Archives: Adult Fiction
Summer Reading List: Great Books by Native Writers
This morning I came across an excellent rant by Debbie Reese (@debreese) bemoaning the fact that Sherman Alexie is the only Native writer anyone has ever heard about, when in fact there are lots of great Native writers out there. Here are a few that I can’t wait to read this summer. Continue reading
Review: Lady Catherine’s Necklace by Joan Aiken
Lady Catherine’s Necklace By Joan Aiken Thorndike Press, 2000 This variation of Jane Austen’s classic novel, Pride and Prejudice, is set a few years after the events of Austen’s original. Lady Catherine and her daughter, Anne, are residing quietly at Rosings Park … Continue reading
What I learned about writing from reading The White City by Alec Michod
The White City By Alec Michod St. Martin’s Griffin, 2004 I’ll start off by saying that I didn’t actually like this book. I finished it not because I needed to know how it ended, or because I cared about the … Continue reading
What I learned about writing from reading all 19 Thomas Lynley mysteries in order
Every once in a while, I like to pick an established author who has written a respectable set of books and read their books in the order in which they were written. I first did this back in the mid-aughts … Continue reading
The 3 books rocking our Family Togetherness Reading Separate Books Time
Weirdly, our entire family is happy with the books that we’re reading right now. This never happens. Not the reading part. Reading is constantly breaking out over here. We even have an official name for it: Family Togetherness Reading Different Books … Continue reading
Posted in Adult Fiction, Book Reviews, Chapter Books
Tagged Confederation series, Farseer Trilogy, Origami Yoda, Robin Hobb, Tanya Huff, Tom Angleberger
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4 things I learned reading 1-star reviews of Pride & Prejudice (yes, they exist)
I wish I could claim this as my own idea, but in truth I first heard of this on Twitter, when @elizabethscraig (one of the most useful writing mentors I follow) pointed me to this article by Amber Skye Forbes at The … Continue reading
A novel way to pick your next book
This map from Hog Island Press in Philadelphia organizes 42 Great American Novels by the locations in which they are set. Want to read a book set in New Orleans? This map lists three. California, Florida, and Chicago all have their share … Continue reading
Book Review: Struck by Orca, subsequent encounter
Struck by Orca: ICD-10 Illustrated Ed. by Niko Skievaski November 2013 As most of you know, my husband is an ICU doctor at the University of Chicago. He’s also got a wicked sense of humor. So when Niko Skievaski released his collection … Continue reading
Posted in Adult Fiction, Book Reviews
Tagged ICD-10 illustrated, Niko Skievaski, Struck by orca
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Shala Howell
