It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. Posted: Saturdays in the South featuring Melinda McGuire, author of Josephine: Red Dirt and Whiskey–her post will make you homesick for your younger days Character Connection featuring everyone’s favorite bad boy, Rhett Butler Meeting the Authors: Joshilyn Jackson–always a delight! Review: The […]
Please join me in welcoming Melinda McGuire, author of Josephine: Red Dirt and Whiskey, to the blog today! I have been so anxious to share her guest post with you! She made me “homesick,” for lack of a better word, for my younger days and endless, hot Saturdays. I’m not usually a person who lives […]
The twelve men making up the parliament of Erl go to their ruler one day and ask for a magic lord. The ruler agrees to grant their request and sends his son to steal and marry the King of Elfland’s daughter. But of course finding her and keeping her can’t be that easy. In the […]
I went to Malaprop’s Bookstore on Sunday afternoon to see Joshilyn Jackson speak about her new book, A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty. I’ve seen Joshilyn speak multiple times, but I always love hearing what she has to say. She is hilarious, and she knows how to keep a crowd entertained. I am most definitely paraphrasing […]
After following the Northern Alliance troops around Afghanistan and reporting on the fall of the Taliban, journalist Åsne Seierstad finds herself in Kabul. She stumbles upon a bookshop and goes in. She and the proprietor, Sultan, hit it off at first and she is invited to spend a little time with his family. She thinks […]
So, since it’s Valentine’s Day and all, it’s time to feature a character crush. This time, it’s Rhett Butler. I know, how predictable can I be, right? But there’s a reason that so many women love this man. Rhett. From the first time he appears on the page, I think my eye was drawn to […]
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. Posted: Review: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, read by Jim Dale Review: Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes A link to my interview at It’s All in the Details Review: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami Guest Post from […]
Please welcome Taylor M. Polites, author of The Rebel Wife, which was just released on Tuesday!
One piece of Huntsville, Alabama that I have always carried with me is the beautiful, antebellum […]
There’s a lot going on in this book. Basically, Toru Okada has just quit his job in Tokyo and all kinds of strange people enter and leave his life while all kinds of strange things happen to him. To say more would give away some things. I finished this book, put it down, and told […]
Jenny Q (the blogger behind Let Them Read Books) has started a new blog at It’s All In the Details. On this blog, she shares advice with writers of historical fiction. She interviews bloggers who read historical fiction in her regular feature, Reviewer Spotlight. My interview was posted today! Jenny had some great questions, so […]
After many years vacationing in Italy, Frances Mayes and her–husband? I don’t think that’s ever clarified–decide to buy a home in Tuscany. They search for a while, but nothing really calls to them. Then they stumble upon a home called Bramasole in the town of Cortona. It’s a wreck, but they can’t get it out […]