On Monday Tricia at The Miss Rumphius Effect posted the Homophoem Poetry Stretch challenge (via J. Patrick Lewis). The task: write a two- to ten-line poem using at least one homophone. (Homophones, in case you've forgotten, are words that share the same pronunciation but differ in meaning.) I've been writing them all week! What fun… Continue reading Homophoems (oh groan!)
The Auschwitz Escape by Joel C. Rosenberg My rating: 5 of 5 stars Jacob Weisz is an unexceptional Jewish boy who lives in Siegen, Germany in the 1940s. He likes his quiet life with his parents, loves going to violin lessons because he might catch a glimpse—even a shy smile—from Naomi Silver, and is embarrassed… Continue reading The Auschwitz Escape (review)
How High Will You Climb?: Determine Your Success by Cultivating the Right Attitude by John C. Maxwell My rating: 4 of 5 stars If you need an attitude makeover, How High Will You Climb? is your go-to guide. Using the metaphor of attitude in the world of flight, author John C. Maxwell helps us analyze… Continue reading How High Will You Climb? (review)
Happy National Poetry Month. It's been over a month since I've posted here. My time away has had its events. Mid-February I went to northern B.C. to be with my daughter and help with the grandkids around the birth of her baby. Their lovely baby girl arrived on February 24th. Then on March 2nd (still… Continue reading Talking with a stranger
Appointment In Jerusalem by Lydia Prince My rating: 5 of 5 stars In December of 1926 Lydia Christensen was a successful 36-year-old Domestic Arts teacher in the city of Korsor Denmark. However, just before Christmas when her longtime friend and colleague Soren asked her to marry him, she couldn't answer "yes." She was fond of… Continue reading Appointment in Jerusalem (review)
Heaven's Prey by Janet Sketchley My rating: 5 of 5 stars The storm that 46-year-old Ruth Warner braves to attend her weekly prayer meeting is a perfect opening to Heaven’s Prey, a debut novel by Nova Scotia native Janet Sketchley. Ruth’s husband Tony can’t understand why she would go out on such a night to… Continue reading Heaven’s Prey (review)
Glamorous Illusions by Lisa Tawn Bergren My rating: 3 of 5 stars Cora Diehl takes the train home from Normal School in Dillon Montana expecting to spend the summer on the farm with her parents. But why aren't they there to meet the train? The sight of her distraught mother beside her father's collapsed form… Continue reading Glamorous Illusions (review)
Aside from the blog hop posts and the March almanac, I've taken a break from blogging this month. From February 14th till March 17th I was away at my daughter and son-in-law's home in northern BC. I was there to help with a new baby that joined their family on February 24th. What a happy… Continue reading What’s up, and a giveaway
"Are you going to write another book?" I've heard that question a lot since publishing my novel in 2012. I suppose it's a question writers inevitably face after finishing a first book. My plan, when I published Destiny's Hands (a biblical fiction exploring the life of the Bible character Bezalel from when he was a… Continue reading Hiking around in a wilderness odyssey
Though I enjoy being swept away in a good biography and love the way poetry transports to realms of emotion, sometimes evokes a belly-laugh, and even the urge to toe-tap along, my biggest pleasure as a reader is to get lost in great adult fiction. Adult fiction is also my biggest challenge as a writer.… Continue reading My favorite genre
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