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Poetry Month Celebration -- The Tag and Link-Up

Today marks the start of my month-long poetry shindig.  And what would a blog celebration be without a tag?  Here are seven poetry-related questions for you to answer, if you so desire.  Copy and paste to your own blog and answer them there, then come back and add your post's link to the linky list so we can all learn about each others' tastes in poetry!

The Questions

What are some poems you like?

What are some poems you dislike?

Are there any poets whose work you especially en...

"The Mother Hunt" by Rex Stout

I've seen the Nero Wolfe Mystery version of this many times, so I was never in doubt of how Nero Wolfe would solve the mystery of who left a baby in a wealthy widow's vestibule and then killed a couple of women.  I must admit that anymore, I don't read these books for the mysteries in them -- I read them to spend time with Archie Goodwin and Nero Wolfe and their cohorts.  Hanging out with my imaginary friends for a hundred pages or so is what keeps me coming back for more, and...

What My Kids are Reading #5

Time to share some more of the kids my books are reading and having read to them.

Sam (8)



Thirteenth Child by Patricia C. Wrede -- magical realism set on the American frontier.  He says Wrede is his favorite author right now.

Across the Great Barrier by Patricia C. Wrede -- a sequel to Thirteenth Child.

The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis.  Although I am emotionally opposed to putting this book first because the series started with The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe&n...

Top Ten Tuesday: Did I Ever Mention...

Everybody here knows I love Jane Eyre and The Lord of the Rings, Shane and Anne of Green Gables, and lots of other books that I won't shut up about.  But here are ten books that I really love, but haven't mentioned much.  Or, as The Broke and the Bookish put it, top ten books we love but feel like we haven't talked about in a while or enough.



Mine are in alphabetical order by title because I didn't feel like using up the emotional energy to put them in order...

"Anne of the Island" by L.M. Montgomery

Whew.  Anne of Avonlea had me a little worried, that I'd find the rest of the Anne books disappointing like it was.  But nope, Anne of the Island delighted me thoroughly.  I read the last six chapters in an impatient fervor.

For the most part, I think the difference is that Island doesn't have any cutesy parts, whereas Avonlea had too many of them.  The change of scenery and lots of new characters helped too.  And of course, the undercurrent of thwa...

The Exciting News!

That's my name on the front cover, right at the top :-)  My short story, "The Man on the Buckskin Horse," is one of five winners that will be included in Five Magic Spindles, the latest collection of fairy tale retellings from Rooglewood Press.

I'll post more info here as I have it, like if I do interviews somewhere that you can read.  For instance, the Rooglewood Quarterly will be running a short interview with me and each of the other contest winners in their March 18 issue. &nbsp...