Category: Recommended Reads and Listens

It’s shocking how much flies by when I’m deep in writing-mode.  Considering that I always seem to be writing something, I guess that means a lot slips on by because, really, the writing comes first, even before feeding my husband. …

While I read several books this past month, only a couple were standouts. I also indulged in some short stories–something I don’t normally do because I’m so focused on writing novels–and was just blown away by a couple, which were…

I know, I know: I’m late. In my own defense, I can only say that the holidays went by in a blur; the kids are home from college (love them but my routine completely goes to hell) and I was/am…

This past month, I traveled a fair amount and so had the chance to read and listen to quite a bit more than usual. You’d think I’d have TONS of recommendations, but there were four books I just couldn’t finish,…

And speaking of listens, HOW could I have forgotten that seventy-two years ago yesterday–on October 30, 1938–Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater of the Air terrorized America with this splendid radio adaptation of War of the Worlds? I first heard…

I am in love with my portable DVD player.  Seriously.  Not only has that little, relatively inexpensive piece of tech saved me from soul-sucking, gym-induced, elliptical/stairmaster/treadmill insanity, it has reminded me, yet again, of how well some movies work when…

Part of a writer’s job is to read—something I’d do anyway because I love reading and so I thought I’d pass on the love every month with my picks: articles and books that I think are worth your time and…