Category: writing
How do you know you’re a writer? If you wrote today, you’re a writer.
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Every spring the neighborhood crows visit our river birch tree, which I can see from the window by my desk. I’m banging away on the computer and the flutter of movement catches my eye. About the time the diminutive catkins droop and the leaves come on, the crows show up. They proceed to tug on…
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Woke up thinking about British novelist Wilkie Collins, and his fine 1860s-era detective novel The Moonstone, which I’ve read a few times. There’s a delightful side character in the book who finds solace and wisdom for daily life in rereading the novel Robinson Crusoe (published in 1719). I couldn’t remember where The Moonstone lived in…
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When I finished Kaliane Bradley’s “The Ministry of Time,” I knew I had to read it again right away. This sweet genius of a book combines history, science fiction and romance, with surprises all over the place but there’s a plot development near the end that I did not see coming at all. I’m not…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 