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Friday Funtimes–Book: Fall Down Laughing by David L. Lander
If you know David L. Lander as Squiggy from Laverne and Shirley, then you know why I read this book. If you don’t know who Squiggy, Laverne, and/or Shirley are, well then, I weep for you and judge you...
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Friday Funtimes–Book: Charlie by Shana Hammaker
Shana Hammaker and I have been mutually following each other on Twitter for a while now. It’s a consensual stalking based on the fact that we’re both writers, we both like scary things, and we both...
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Friday Funtimes–Books: Cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen King
I love the movie Silver Bullet. I feel it’s one of Gary Busey’s finest performances. I’ve been looking to get hold of Cycle of the Werewolf, the Stephen King novella it’s based on, for a while. I...
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Friday Funtimes–Book: The Bullpen Gospels by Dirk Hayhurst
Baseball players get to live the glamorous life, traveling, dating beautiful women, and getting paid obscene amounts of money. Well, if they’re stars. And not all baseball players are stars. And even...
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Writing Wednesday: Reading Goals Update
When we last left our heroine, she was embarking on a trek to read twenty-four books, ten of them being non-fiction, one of those being a memoir, no more than eight of them being from the horror...
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Friday Funtimes–Books: Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
I saw the movie before I read the book. That can be a sin, you know. It can distort the prose and you come away feeling dissatisfied, especially if you really liked the movie. It’s the opposite of what...
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Friday Funtimes–I Tried to Read a Romance Novel
Picture this: a selfish woman with a grating personality meets a man pining for his dead wife and spoiling his little daughter to the point that she’s passed unbearable and on her way to loathsome....
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Writing–2013 Reading Goals Update…Again
With a little less than three months to go, here’s where I’m at. Of my goal of 24 books, I’ve read 20. Yay! Since July, I’ve read one more non-fiction book which brings my total to five. Since July,...
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Writing–Books of 2013
As I said earlier this year, laziness led me to stop reviewing every book that I read, which was my form of accountability when it came to doing my reading goals. Instead, I kept a list of all of the...
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Writing–Reading Goals Update
Since we’ve accomplished half of a year already, I figure it’s time to check in to see how I’m accomplishing my reading goals. As you may or probably don’t remember, this year I laid down the gauntlet...
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Writing–Reading Goals 2014 Achieved
If you’ll recall, my goal was to read 24 books this year at an even pace of 2 books a month and only four could be re-reads. I’m happy to say that I hit the end goal of 24 books, but that reading at...
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2015 Holiday Gift Suggestions
It’s Black Friday, when folks trample each other to buy price-reduced manufactured goods so they can give them to family and friends to prove just how much they love and appreciate them. As much fun as...
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Writing–2013 Reading Goals
I need to come up with some tangible reading goals for 2013. So let’s do a quick review of what my 2012 goals were and what I actually did. My goal was to read 12 books, 6 fiction (at least one from...
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Book: Fall Down Laughing by David L. Lander
If you know David L. Lander as Squiggy from Laverne and Shirley, then you know why I read this book. If you don’t know who Squiggy, Laverne, and/or Shirley are, well then, I weep for you and judge you...
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Book: Charlie by Shana Hammaker
Shana Hammaker and I have been mutually following each other on Twitter for a while now. It’s a consensual stalking based on the fact that we’re both writers, we both like scary things, and we both...
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“What Do You Like to Read?”
One neat thing about libraries is that you can put books on hold. That way, when the book you want to read is either processed or returned by another patron, it will automatically go to you if you’re...
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Oh Shit…I Read Romance Now
I’m known to read more than one book at a time due to the fact that I work at a library and keep seeing books I want to read and then I put them on hold and then they all come in at once and I have no...
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Read This If–Book Recs You Never Asked For
We have this thing at the library called Reader’s Advisory. Basically, it means that one of our solemnly sworn duties as library workers is to recommend books, movies, TV shows, whatever to patrons...
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