The craziness that was the summer of 2022 saw an explosion in the phenomenon of bookshop crawling. For the uninitiated, a bookshop crawl is exactly what it sounds like. You … Continue reading The Great Bookshop Crawl of 2023
Sally Rooney is my ultimate idol as a writer, especially in terms of the mechanics of writing, and in the wake of completing her entire canon this year, I want … Continue reading My Favorite Quote From Every Chapter of Normal People
In my last post I wrote about how I recently conquered my greatest literary white whale, Frank Herbert’s God Emperor of Dune, after trying and failing several times as a … Continue reading Rating Book Covers for God Emperor of Dune
It may or may not surprise you to know that I’m a lousy reader. I’ve always loved books, but I’ve always struggled with them too. Not with understanding them, but … Continue reading My Reading Struggles, White Whale Books, & God Emperor of Dune
May 10th, 2022. I’ve nearly regurgitated my morning coffee over my lap as a text comes in asking me to perform a reading at a book launch later that evening… … Continue reading Bookish Fun with Bookish Friends Part 2: The KU Ripple Launch
While my primary motivation for embarking on a Master’s Degree at Kingston University was to secure a career in the publishing industry, I also arrived in London with a secondary … Continue reading Bookish Fun with Bookish Friends Part 1: The 2022 London Book Fair
My new book, Fractured Threads, will be releasing this Saturday and is now available for purchase! I’ve gotten a lot of questions about the book throughout its journey- in regard … Continue reading Fractured Threads – Book Launch Q&A
If you could go back, would you? Or better yet- what would it mean to you to have a second chance at something? There’s something so compelling and enduring about … Continue reading Looking Back at the Past: The Yearning for Second Chances
Last week I finished watching Ken Burns’ recent documentary on the life of Ernest Hemingway, which was honestly a match made in heaven for me. Burns is my favorite documentary … Continue reading Stories & Heroes: My Reflections on Ken Burns’ Hemingway Documentary
Territory of Light Author: Yūko Tsushima Published: 1978-1979 (serialized in the literary magazine Gunzō) Country: Japan Genre: Literary Fiction First Sentence: “The apartment had windows on all sides.” Review: Territory … Continue reading Lockdown Reading Part 3 – December 2020 to April 2021
Forever… Author: Judy Blume Published: 1975 Country: United States Genre: Young Adult Fiction/Coming-of-Age First Sentence: “Sybil Davison has a genius I.Q. and has been laid by at least six different … Continue reading Lockdown Reading Part 2 – Summer & Fall 2020
If you’ve been around here for a while, you might remember a post I wrote back in 2018 called Five Guys Read Hemingway: My Reading Experiment, in which I gave … Continue reading Five Guys Read Hemingway: Revisited