At the San Francisco Writers Conference this year, Cara Black sat at a table near the book seller in the Room of the Dons. I talked with her about the locations in Paris where her books take place. Her latest one is on the Champ De Mars and it will be available in paperback on […]
Elizabeth Gilbert on a TED Talk Shares 11 Ways to Think Smartly About Creativity
The author of Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert has an inspiring TED Talk http://go.ted.com/CHBa The topic is “genius, creativity and how we get in our own way when it comes to both.” She shares 11 helpful points about creativity. Point 3 for example, is “Make something, do something, do anything.” The first line is […]
Reading Group Selects William Kent Krueger’s Ordinary Grace
I had the good fortune to have a day off this Tuesday. A member of our reading group selected Ordinary Grace by William Ken Krueger for this month. The book qualifies as a real page turner. A day or two ago, I had put it down on page 63 and at 9:00 this morning, I […]
Do You Want To Be Notorious? Ask Sue Monk Kidd
When I receive books in the mail that I’ve ordered, I scrutinize the cover, front and back, and then randomly open the book. Sue Monk Kidd’s Firstlight arrived today. I landed on page 41. Kidd describes how a woman said to her, “When I turn fifty, I want to become notorious.” Kidd asked her “Notorious […]
The Writer’s Journey by Christopher Vogler
Christopher Vogler wrote in his book, The Writers Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers, that one of the most influential books of the 20th century may turn out to be Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Writers are using the “ageless patterns which Campbell identifies.” The most persistent theme is the myth of the […]
Wayne Dyer eBooks
The following quote was in an email from Hay House. “But as we were preparing his obituary and information for the press release about his passing we were going through I Can See Clearly Now, his memoir for information to share about his life: we noticed that August 30th was in fact a very important […]
What Are You Reading?
What are you reading now? I switched genres and read Personal by Lee Child. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Lee has a subtle humor, the characters are well-drawn, and most of it took place in Paris. He’s my dad’s favorite author. At ninety, my dad reads a book a day. […]