writer at play
Posted in reading, writing process on Mar 9th, 2010
Here at the playground, I spent a couple of posts talking about that bane of my writing life–coming up with titles! Since I want that process to be less painful with more satisfying results, I went through my booklists to find templates or formulae for titles.
First off, we have the one-word titles. These include names [...]
Posted in reading on Mar 5th, 2010
Lucky me (now that March is finally here!). Two books I really really want to read are coming out this month. At the top of the list is the fourth installment of Megan Whalen Turner’s Thief series deliciously titled A Conspiracy of Kings. Can we pause for a fangirl-ish moment?
SQUEE! /fangirl-ish moment
Check out that gorgeous [...]
My laptop stayed off all day yesterday. Aside from using David’s computer to check email briefly, I spent a rare day of being unplugged from the ‘net. I went to church, cleaned (parts of) the house, had friends over for dinner, finished Fantasy in Death (just in time to count towards February’s reads) and turned [...]
The Chathrand is a queen among ships; immense, six hundred years old, carrying over a thousand people, the stage on which political conspiracies and magics are being played out. On board is young Thasha Isiq, the daughter of a general and ambassador of the Arqual, sent as a Treaty Bride to forge peace between her [...]
My name is Kvothe, pronounced nearly the same as “quothe.” Names are important as they tell you a great deal about a person. I’ve had more names than anyone has a right to. The Adem call me Maedre. Which, depending on how it’s spoken, can mean The Flame, The Thunder, or The Broken Tree.
So [...]
Posted in reading on Jan 31st, 2010
January reads:
The Iron Hunt by Marjorie M. Liu (Cool premise, but not as good as I’d hoped. Every question was answered with more mysteries and more strange characters showing up. Definitely a Book One.)
Ship of Destiny by Robin Hobb (my review here)
Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath (my review here)
The Name of [...]
Posted in challenges, goals, reading on Jan 6th, 2010
At the beginning of 2009, I committed to reading 52 books in 52 weeks. By the end of the year I had read 64. However, that number does not accurately represent all the reading I did last year. It doesn’t take into account blog posts, magazine articles, anthologies, all the books I only partially read [...]
I discovered Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson in December, one of my most exciting book finds of the year. It has an awesome premise (what if the prophesied hero failed to defeat the Great Evil?), an original and very cool magic system and appealing characters. It has adventure and romance, sacrifice and danger, armies and heists, [...]
I may not have blogged much in October, but I sure made it through a lot of books! I attribute this partially to the fact we moved the baby out of our room and into his own, thus allowing me to read in bed again. But only partially. I just like books a whole lot. [...]
Posted in reading on Sep 22nd, 2009
Have you ever been in this situation?
You get a book from the library, a nice fat book, in a genre you don’t normally read, but the premise is intriguing.
You start reading it one evening and it hooks you so much you read for four hours. You read it in snatches over the next couple of [...]