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Many of you know it as NaNoWriMo for short and it’s fast approaching! While the official site is more of a support blog offering forums, hints, tips, and more, it’s been going strong for 10 years. Participants begin on November 1st with only one goal in mind: write a 175 page novel (at least 50,000) words in one month. It’s more about enthusiasm than craft, and yes, much of the work written will be “crap.” But here is NaNoWriMo’s answer for why you should do it anyway…
You may be wondering why I’ve listed a “by” and “written by” above in this book’s information. It’s actually quite clever. The Electric Adventures of Alvin, Part Two is actually a “real time” blog novel. And no, it’s not a sequel. Not a “real” sequel anyway. But the real author behind the idea is Kevin McDermott. Confused? Don’t be!
Well, we wondered how long it would take before someone else entered the Ereader race with Sony and Amazon. This week, we got our answer! For the past year, Amazon has owned the market with its Kindle, Kindle Deluxe, and the release this week of a new Kindle with U.S. and International Wireless access. With the latest version, Kindle also went global.
Cursing the Cougar is two books in one. Which book you like says a lot about you as a reader. The first book is a lushly written coming-of age story that crests and falls on the emotions of the characters. This is the kind of book they don’t write anymore but should, Jane Eyre in blue jeans holding a torque wrench. The second book-within-a-book is a taut psychological thriller complete with deranged bad-guy and brief glimpses into a warped mind. While it would be easy to dismiss Cursing the Cougar as lacking in direction, it’s actually in the intersection of these two tales that we realize that life is LIKE that, sometimes evil visits our slowly simmering lives and turns up the heat.
After reading this short collection of poetry by Judy Ann and Christina Eichstedt, I immediately thought the title of the collection, Whispers of Truth, was a bit ironic. None of the poems convey a message that you think would be whispered, but instead are passages that sound like the poets would want to scream at the top of their lungs. They even say so in the book description:
Last weekend I finished reading Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol. Brown is one of the few authors these days who I will drop everything to read. In the past Anne Rice and Stephen King held such power over me. While my tastes in reading have changed over the years, there are other authors who I still feel the same way about, but there aren’t many.
I first found Christopher’s work with The Essential Paradigm Shift:2006 and said:
An unusual and clever idea with great graphics and layout that I could imagine having a cult following…seems I was right, as by now (2009) this literary magazine is still going strong.
This week Jeff Bezos, Founder of Amazon.com, announced that Amazon’s Kindle E-Reader is about to go global. The Kindle with both U.S. and International Wireless will become available October 19th for $279.
I admit that when Aaron Denenberg queried the LLBR with his book Dark Oz, I was going to turn it down without even reading the preview or attempting to learn more about the book. Like most adults my age, I grew up looking forward to seeing the Wizard of Oz each year on television back in the 80′s. That movie, along with the original King Kong helped shape hours of my imagination each summer in a house that only got seven TV channels, so I’m apt to be against changing anything about those memories or seeing Oz from a new perspective.
As I Rode with Cullen Baker opens, we are met with a scene evocative of Gone with the Wind with Tara burning in the background. Set in the South in the midst of the civil war, fifteen year old Jessica Linville watched while the Federal cavalry burned her house to the ground.
C.V. reviews Chuggie and the Desecration of Stagwater by Brent Michael Kelley
Shannon reviews The Boston 395 by Jason Derr
Susan reviews Appraisal for Murder by Elaine Orr
C.V. reviews Hellwatch by Larime Taylor (February's 1st review)
Jaime reviews The Parrot's Perch by Karen Keilt
Susan reviews Dark Mind by Jennifer Chase
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