I Almost Missed The Dewey 24 Hour Read-a-Thon
Last October I joined as a total newbie and last minute to boot. So I wasn’t prepare. Books and food ended up being whatever I had on hand. I hadn’t … Continue reading
Review: BURN WILD: A WRITER’S GUIDE TO CREATIVE BREAKTHROUGH by Christi Krug
Remember when you were little and would scribble a big blob of yellow on a page and call it a tiger, then hand it to an adult who would proclaim … Continue reading
First Words: “There was only one occupant…”
You open the cover with eager anticipation. Your fingers impatiently flipping through the pages while your eyes hungrily scan for that tell-tale page — Chapter 1. Yes. There it is! … Continue reading
Review: WRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME by David P. Perimutter
Travel story based on real events? Or true tale of life and death? Deciding on which books to review is never easy. While I definitely lean towards reviewing books I … Continue reading
Book Discussion: THE TRUE PATRIOT
I took THE TRUE PATRIOT by Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer on a four-hour cross-country flight and as it turned out, played right into the authors hands. The book is small (literally, only 5”x7”) and … Continue reading
First Words: An Ever-Present Static Had Moved Into My Head…
You open the cover with eager anticipation. Your fingers impatiently flipping through the pages while your eyes hungrily scan for that tell-tale page — Chapter 1. Yes. There it is! … Continue reading
Do You Miss The Leather?
As a traveler and compulsive reader it’s hard not to appreciate the convenience of having an e-book. On the other hand … you can’t watch the video below — PICTORIAL … Continue reading
PORN!!!
No, not that kind of porn. But I got your attention, didn’t I? Ha! I’m talking about a website called “Bookshelf Porn.” It is a Pinterest-style site set up to showcase … Continue reading
Review: JUAN PATRON: A Fallen Star in the Days of Billy the Kid
People interested in U.S. history often underestimate how different a story it is from region to region. I’ve recently been reading revolutionary history and naturally that means descriptions of British … Continue reading
A (Sort of) Chance Encounter with an Icon
“Hi. I’m Edee, and I… uh… wanted to say, er… um… tell you that, um…” Oh crap! My brain can’t choose between racing and going blank? Niiiiice…
Review: I SPIDER by Anthony Lance
…think Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’ meets ‘The Birds’ with flashes of humor. I have a rather compulsive habit of downloading books to my e-reader, so it was no surprise when I SPIDER joined … Continue reading
Dewey’s 24 Hour Read-A-Thon
Okay. Denise and Karen over at BlogHer are chatting about a Read-A-Thon. Dewey’s Read-A-Thon to be exact. And it starts TOMORROW! Yes. Saturday October 13, 2012. I have a million things … Continue reading
Review: A Dog’s Purpose
A couple of weeks ago I went into my local Barnes & Noble and walked past the giant table full of best-sellers. My intent was to pick up a … Continue reading
Review: Red by Kate Kinsey
With all the hoopla over 50 Shades of Gray, the dark world of BDSM has come into the light. “Red” is NOT a romance. If anything I would call it … Continue reading
Review: Bad Luck Cadet & Bad Luck Officer
…Law Enforcement Adventure With Humor, Compassion and True Grit If you love cop shows and cop novels and think the various CSI television series are how law enforcement actually works, … Continue reading
Look at That!
“There are some things you just can’t unsee, Mom,” my neighbor’s teenaged daughter said. It’s true, you know. Remember the hidden object games we all played as kids (or maybe … Continue reading
Guest Post: Author, Anita Finlay
Reading & Writing Cafe welcomes Anita Finlay, author of Dirty Words on Clean Skin: At Best Buy one lazy Sunday afternoon six years back, I sampled my first Ipod. The preprogrammed … Continue reading
Review: The Stranger You Seek by Amanda Kyle Williamsy
I am simply amazed to realize that this is the suspense debut for Amanda Kyle Williams because it certainly did not read like a `first’ to me. In fact I … Continue reading
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