It’s Monday, What Are You Reading? (Aug. 23rd)

It is my Birthday! That said it is on to the Books, which really are my favorite subject anyway. *Last week I published two reviews — The Blind Contessa’s New Machine by Carey Wallace and Here  by Wislawa Szymborska *I have been named a board member of the Northshore Literary Society. I am very excited [...]

The Blind Contessa’s New Machine (Review)

The Blind Contessa’s New Machine: A Novel by Carey Wallace I loved this book and hated it all at the same time. It is a beautiful confession written in such a way that you feel as if you are watching the whole story through a snow globe. That distance combined with Wallace’s wonderful way with [...]

It’s Monday, What Are You Reading (Aug 9th)

Read: NOTHING, too many things going on (read more doctors apps.). I did attend a virtual conference called Book Bloggers and Authors Online Conference that was very interesting.  As a result I spent time setting up my first author interview. DNF: The Ghost of Manhattan by George Mann. It wasn’t terrible, just seemed too familiar. [...]

The Blind Contessa’s New Machine

“But in a memorable minority of Turri men, this bent toward innovation produced full-blown dreamers of the very worst sort: those with the energy, resources, and intellect to inflict their fancies on the rest of the world.” p16 I read this line over and over. It made me smile and start imaging all manner of [...]