Category: books
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Han Kang – Nobel Literature Laureate 2024
It’s that time again – when the Nobel prize laureates are announced. Today, the Swedish Academy announced this year’s literature laureate: South Korean author, Han Kang. Congratulations to Han Kang – Nobel Laureate in Literature for 2024 It’s such a wonderful surprise to see a Nobel laureate who is the same age as me. I’ve…
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And so it has begun – the Write Brave Challenge
Yes, I have started the Write Brave Challenge. Today is Day One. Not many words on the page yet, but I am working on it.
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Writers: Beware “white room syndrome”
Have you ever found yourself reading a scene in a book and not being able to picture a single thing about the setting?
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What Kim’s reading: A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams
We bookworms always know there’s that one book we’ve been longing to read that will keep us captivated. Yes, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams is that book for me. It’s a love story, an homage to the Harlem Renaissance, a touch of the supernatural all rolled into one. And it all…
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What Kim’s reading: I’ll Conjure You by Charish Reid
Sometimes you need something that sends a few chills up your spine…even when you’re in the mood for romance. yes, I know, it sounds like it shouldn’t go together but I’ll Conjure for You, the second book in the the Beck Sisters Hauntings series by Charish Reid, delivers romance and horror in satisfying dollops. Helen…
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When life imitates art
I’ve been debating whether I should share this post because it hits too close to home. I know that some people will take offense to it. At this point, I don’t care. Three years ago, well before my mother’s cancer diagnosis, I began plotting a book with the working title The Keepsake’s House. It was…
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Five books to take to the beach
I’ve loved books since I was a child. Even when others made fun of me for being a bookworm, I continued to carry books with me wherever I went. They were my escape from doldrums, from other people’s ignorance and cruelty, they entertained me during long train rides or bus rides to Virginia, they took…