Friday Fiction: What Are Y’all Reading?
I recently combed through our Borders store a second time looking for going-out-of-business bargains and walked away with another stack of books. This time, most of the books were for my family; however, I did add to my To Be…
Who Wrote It? Author Franchises
So you pick up yet another book from an author who has churned out four this year already, excited to crack open the spine and yet wondering how he manages to write so many novels. But then you discover, he…
Friday Fiction: A Secret to Getting Published
Want to become a best-selling author? I have the secret to unbridled success! Become a celebrity first. Of course, celebrities have long been known for publishing memoirs, autobiographies, and tell-all books. But in recent years, a large number of the famed and fortuned…
Friday Fiction: What Are Your Guilty Pleasures?
Yes, of course, we are all high-brow literature lovers with titles like The Brothers Karamazov and A Tale of Two Cities gracing our bookshelves. We can’t wait to hear the winner of the next Pulitzer Prize and dutifully read New York…
Friday Fiction: What to Read Next?
My Next Reads Stack It’s a toss-up for whether my Netflix queue or my Next Reads stack is larger. My husband recently said, “I could have three lifetimes, and never get through all the books I want to read.” I…
Friday Fiction: How Many Pages to the Tootsie Roll Center?
I was one of those honor roll high school students who read every book assigned in English class. Recommend a good book to me, and I’m all over it! I fondly recall reading classics like To Kill a Mockingbird…
Friday Fiction: Firecracker Duds
So what’s that one book that everyone raved about, that you spent $20 on the hardcover to purchase or twelve weeks on the library waiting list to receive, that you opened with excited anticipation… only to finish and wonder what…