Book review: Fool Me Twice by Meredith Duran

Fool Me Twice by Meredith Duran My rating: 2 of 5 stars This book was the first of Duran’s I really didn’t like the preview put out in advance. Unfortunately, it turns out the big issue in the preview (crazy unsexy power imbalance) wasn’t very much remedied in the rest of the book. I have … Continue reading →

Book review: On Writing by Stephen King

I just finished listening to Stephen King’s On Writing now, a book I last read about a decade ago, but I really liked it the first time and still like it now. A note on Stephen King: reading On Writing is the most I ever appreciate him. After I finished it the first time, I went out … Continue reading →

Reading about child homelessness

Invisible Child: Girls in the Shadows: Dasani’s Homeless Life Myths Over Miami This week I’ve read two long, intense articles about child homelessness — one published in the New York Times this past December, the other in the Miami New Times almost twenty years ago (1997).  Neither were easy to read, though with the second … Continue reading →

Book review: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, by Robert C. O’Brien

(Note: I experienced this book for the second time in audio form, and the first CD was so corrupted that I couldn’t listen to it at all. I almost returned it then to the library, but before I got around to it, I was sitting in traffic and decided why the hell not try the … Continue reading →

Book review: That Scandalous Summer by Meredith Duran

That Scandalous Summer by Meredith Duran My rating: 3 of 5 stars I have a high bar for Meredith Duran, because she’s shown that she can deliver a hell of a romance novel while also dealing with some incredibly weighty subjects, such as war crimes and PTSD (The Duke of Shadows), or social class conflict and … Continue reading →

Women’s Day with “René Gruau”

Originally posted on Creative Metamorphoun:
International Women’s Day > Mother’s Day, because all women should be celebrated whether or not they put their uterus to work. Creative Metamorphoun View original post Continue reading →

(Short Story) The Philosophy of Leaves

(Written in 2007.) * The air blew cooler now, cooler than any day of this year so far. Those walking beneath only hurried along quickly; their days of dawdling, looking up and around and enjoying the fall were past. A louder rustle could be heard today, above them in the trees; a rustle almost like … Continue reading →