Ruth Madison's Blog, page 9
May 28, 2012
Monday Book Review: A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeline L’Engle
A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Madeleine L’Engle’s Time Quintet) Review… Summary: This is not a romance and there isn’t much in the way of a love plot, but it does feature a touching love triangle with a character who I fell deeply in love with as a teenager. Madeline L’Engle writes young adult and children’s books, [...]
May 21, 2012
Monday Book Review: Canyon Mission by Meg Gardiner
Mission Canyon: An Evan Delaney Novel by Meg Gardiner Review… Summary: The main character, Evan, is a plucky, sarcastic jill-of-all-trades who is engaged to a handsome lawyer in a wheelchair, Jesse. The plot of this particular book has the man who ran over Jesse back in town after trying to run from manslaughter charges (Jesse’s friend [...]
May 18, 2012
Friday Excerpt: A First Kiss
I’m out in Ohio this week, having a much needed vacation! I haven’t been able to get much access to the Internet, which can be good sometimes! It’s refreshing to take a break from it, though I miss my Internet friends. This morning I’m using my boyfriend’s laptop to bring you a short excerpt from [...]
May 14, 2012
Monday Book Review: Paradox by Lee Nilsen
Paradox edited by Lee Nilsen Review… Summary: This is a very special book to me. It is a collaboration that I was invited to participate in. The book is nearly 400 pages long and filled with stories, poems, and musings centered around the “imperfect” hero motif (I dislike the term “imperfect” as I find nothing [...]
May 11, 2012
Friday Excerpt: Indian Flare
If you’ve read my Dev Dreams, Vol One collection, you may have noticed that two of the stories have Indian main characters and involve Indian culture. Not many people know that I grew up in an Indian based community and that the culture is deeply a part of me. This excerpt is from a free story [...]
May 7, 2012
Monday Book Review: Daredevil’s Run
Daredevil’s Run (Silhouette Romantic Suspense) by Kathleen Creighton Review… Summary: Former partners and lovers who ran an adventure business together (offering rock climbing lessons and white water rafting tours), have not seen each other in five years. Not since Matt was paralyzed in a freak climbing accident. Alex tried to stick by him at the time, [...]
May 4, 2012
Friday Excerpt: A new subplot
After having a lot of trouble getting any fiction writing done for the last several weeks, I’m finally back on track and working hard on a draft of Be(Longing). This small segment is part of a subplot that I think I’m going to put in. Gives Dylan more reason to work hard at achieving his dreams as [...]
May 1, 2012
Us v.s. Them
This post is part of the Blogging Against Disablism Day (BADD) hosted by Diary of a Goldfish. Find more posts here and follow tweets @BADDtweets Treading into the land of disability is a dangerous proposition. You’ll encounter many unexpected things. From the outside I think people expect that disability is one experience, one thing, and [...]
April 27, 2012
Friday Excerpt: (W)hole
You know, I don’t think I’ve done an excerpt from my first novel, the book that started it all. As with many writers, this is not actually the first novel I wrote, but it is the first I published. This book sets the tone in a lot of ways for the direction my career is [...]
April 17, 2012
My Birthday!
Today is my 30th birthday and to celebrate, I did an interview at a Book Review site! I hope you’ll check it out. This was quite a long interview with very interesting questions. I had a good time with it.
