National Geographic has an interesting article about a friendly wolf in Alaska. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/03/150322-romeo-wolf-dog-animals-wildlife-alaska-ngbooktalk/ Romeo appeared in the Alaskan community near Juneau, and “was a bit of a flirt, and like Shakespeare’s Romeo seemed to fall in love with”…Juliet, a yellow Labrador. Normally wolves fight with canines or eat them, but Romeo wanted to play and […]
Paul Levinson’s The Other Car
The next couple days I might not post since I need to organize my receipts for taxes. I took a break today and read a novella by Paul Levinson called “The Other Car.” It’s available on Kindle for $.99. James Oleson is beginning to see everything in perfect duplicate – two identical models of cars […]
Lolly Winston’s Good Grief
Lolly Winston’s Good Grief is an excellent book. I savored the last twenty pages, unable to leave the characters and their world in Ashland, Oregon, that I enjoyed these last few days. At times the story brought tears and other times, I laughed out loud, even in the reception room where I was waiting for […]
The Fire in Fiction by Donald Maass/Protagonists vs. Heroes
Donald Maass states on page 9-10 in Chapter One of his book, The Fire in Fiction, that there is a difference between a protagonist and a hero. “A protagonist is the subject of a story. A hero is a human being with extraordinary qualities. A protagonist can be a hero, certainly, but isn’t always. Quite […]
Are You a William Faulkner Fan?
William Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust was the book chosen for our reading group’s February novel. We all agreed it was a difficult style to read. He used little punctuation. The pronoun ‘he’ in his long sentences could mean Chick or Lucas or his uncle or any male in the scene. Within the long, long […]
5 Ways to Add Humor to Your Memoir by Stacey Gustafson
The following is Stacey Gustafson’s blog post from March 6, 2015. Her eBOOK, for a limited time, is 99¢. Click here to get your copy, http://amzn.to/1Bgwatq Her blog is: http://staceygustafson.com/blog/ 5 Ways to Add Humor to Your Memoir Do you believe that memoir has to be serious in order to get your point across? […]
Victoria Zackheim’s FaithAnthology Book Reading in Berkeley
Victoria Zackheim & Contributors read from Zackheim’s anthology, Faith: Essays from Believers, Agnostics, and Atheists at Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore in Berkeley on February 25th. Zackheim is the author of the novel The Bone Weaver and the editor of five anthologies, the one before Faith was Exit Laughing. She writes documentary films and teaches creative nonfiction […]