I eliminated only two titles from my TBR list over the past two months—a poor effort considering how much I read. The library is to blame. Nearly every book I put on hold over the past six months arrived on my Kindle all at once, and I had to read like the wind to keepContinue reading “Reporting from Mount TBR (July Edition)”
Tag Archives: historical fiction
What I’ve Been Reading
The #WritersRead prompt for September was: a book I wished I’d read in school. I’ve written before about books I’d like to see on high school reading lists. It’s a subject I’m passionate about, so I was determined to read something I really, really wished had been recommended back when I was in school. When I researched current high schoolContinue reading “What I’ve Been Reading”
The Men We Love
You’d be forgiven for thinking this post might be about our husbands, our brothers, or our sons, but my fellow Lady Writers and I want to share a little something about the other men in our lives: the characters we write. Each of us picked a favorite, and it was no easy task. We’ve allContinue reading “The Men We Love”
What I’ve Been Reading
May 2018 Edition. I had planned a new blog series for this year to replace my regular reading updates. Every month, I wanted to feature the first sentence or paragraph of a single book, with commentary on how that line or those lines had measured up against the book as a whole. I might stillContinue reading “What I’ve Been Reading”
Review: Shaman
Shaman by Kim Stanley Robinson Shaman is the story of Loon, a young man who comes of age thirty-two thousand years ago, in the paleolithic era. At the beginning of the book, he is stripped naked, pushed out into the rain and told not to come back for two weeks. He is on his shamanContinue reading “Review: Shaman”
Kelly Jensen 