Every now and then a novel comes along, written as a series of letters. 84 Charing Cross Road is one, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society another. (Both books this reader heartily recommends. I have visited both places,…
Category: reading
The new Gabriel
For a while, it seemed as if the end of the Cold War had killed off an entire genre of literature.When the Berlin Wall fell - not that I cared at the time, being in kindergarten, with my reading mostly…
Pool girls
Tiger Stripes: Pool Girl is a story I've been meaning to read for a while. Sasha Rowan puts out a lot of erotica stories, and this one caught my eye.Well, they all caught my eye, but one has to start…
The light of other days
Yesterday I attended my monthly photo club meeting. Our leader is a lovely man in his eighties, fortunate enough in life to have had two spouses, one of each variety, and he has been a photographer since 1960 or so.He…
Page turners
What makes a story good? I see this question asked by many people, of many people. An author is perhaps the worst person to ask for an answer. If they are any good, they aren't working to a formula. They…
OK never
A Twitter friend of mine - a very talented writer by the name of Jacinta Horgan - put me on to a book called The Exact Opposite of Okay by Laura Steven. This Young Adult novel is as powerful and…
My words!
For research, I have been reading rather a lot of erotica. For research purposes. I don't do it to enjoy myself.Here's my take on a good erotic short:1. Reasonably credible plot and characters. The characters have to have reasons to…
For all love
There are writers, and there is Patrick O'Brian. In the wake of C S Forester and his popular Hornblower series of Napoleonic naval fiction, there were several who explored this area. Battles against the French, the weather, the times, and…
Crash test smarties
Yesterday I spoke about finding and hopefully fixing a major problem in my writing strategy, I think I've got it covered, but that just came out of the blue at me.I don't know yet what I'm doing wrong. Only yesterday…
A library in my pocket
I am allowed ten books at any one time on my Kindle Unlimited shelf. Perhaps my appetites were bigger than my eyes, because I found that I reached that limit very quickly, and if I saw another book that looked…
