“The world is a book, And those who do not travel, Read only a page.” By Saint Augustine To me, reading a book is traveling. When I read Aegean Dream by Dario Ciriello, I felt as if I had gone to the Island of Skopelos. When something reminds me about the book, I can imagine […]
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
The reading group I joined this year, selected Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice to read for April. Austen was born on December 16, 1775 and died on July 18, 1817. She was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. […]
Eudora Welty Quotes
“Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart, mind, and soul of a person who is not yourself, that a character becomes in his own right another human being on the page.” “Indeed, learning to write may be […]
Flash Fiction Book, UP, DO
Patricia Flaherty Pagan edited Up, Do, an anthology of thirty-three flash stories by award-winning and emerging writers. The four categories are “Our Hearts”, “Our Bodies”, “Our possible Futures”, and “Our Dreams; Our nightmares.” In the Introduction, Pagan writes: “I subscribe to the theory that flash fiction is like a geode of a larger narrative. Slicing […]
Harlequin Anthology Reading
Elizabeth Strout Interview
The Quote that Came My Way Today
Our fellow writer, Anne Koch, sent me a note card with the following quote by an unknown author: “Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.”