With all the start-ups out there, I think this is a time like the Renaissance. Not just one person doing great work, but so many feeding off one another. If you lived then, wouldn’t you go out and paint? – from Allegra Goodman’s The Cookbook Collector. I never know what book will stay in my…
It’s time for another great summer read, but first here’s Zippy crossing his own bridge to Treasure Island. The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton In the past two weeks I read six of John Sandford’s Prey novels, and travelled every step of the way into the dark corners with his main character, Lucas Davenport, from Hidden…
It’s raining again and there’s a lot of indoor working/revising/catching up…curl up with a good book like In the Woods by Tana French. Zippy watches over his new charges: Ajax The Gray & Eartha Kitt’n. Ajax The Gray & Eartha Kitt’n had very little outside life unless supervised before they turned six months old. They…
Hello and happy reading . . . here are the last five books that really got me moving, pushed me into overdrive, and inspired my creative flow. Ready to write, Muse? The last book Post and this round-up are linked by sunset photos from our trip down the Oregon Coast ‘-) 1: Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock…
In the hectic world a good book can take me into a less stressful place even if it’s a suspense-filled mystery. This is the Southern Oregon coastline at dusk. Oregon has the most amazing coastline and I love RVing there. I get a lot of reading done from this vantage point but only after the…
The humor in Tom Rachman’s novel made me think of this sign I found when I visited a German pet store (with Zippy’s face added). Zippy’s barking translation: I can get to the door in 5 seconds…and you? The Imperfectionists is the best book I’ve read this past year. I love the language, the characters,…