Tag Archives: books
Happy, again. For a writing friend.
Yay, Jack!
check him out, here if you’re local.
And buy the book here, for anyone, if I didn’t already hit you up on the Facebook Events.
And no, I’m not his publicist.
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I read all the wrong books this year.
I try to read 52 books a year. This year I took a month off and still managed to read 63, but according to the NYT, I am not the best person to ask about books.
Their recent list of the 100 most notable books of 2008, lists 48 fiction books that I never even opened. I’m not even going to the non-fiction side of the list.
It’s not that I didn’t know about these great new releases, in fact I listened to interviews with more than 7 of the authors and heard in-depth reviews of more than 20 of …
Some of my favorite men not only write but read, too.
More from the Decatur Book Festival, for your viewing and listening pleasure.
Billy’s new book of poems is Ballistics. Fantastic.Hear as Billy Collins reads
My friend Jack Riggs reads from his new book, The Fireman’s Wife. Watch for it early next year.
Robert Olen Butler read from his book, Intercourse. Great, as usual.
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Bloggin' Like A Mother!
Last weekend I attended the Decatur Book Festival. For all the crazy fun and wonderfulness that weekend brought, you’d think I’d have a few pictures. I do. And something to say.
Of course I do.
Let’s start here- with BLOGGERS!
This is Kristen Chase of Motherhood Uncensored and Mir Kamin of Woulda Coulda Shoulda.
See how pretty they are? See how happy they look? You would never guess one was recuperating from her own fun-filled evening battling food poisoning and the other is about to give birth- any minute now.
Go read their blogs. Buy their book.Say thank …
Famous people, crazy people
This weekend in Atlanta two different groups gather. Downtown over 20,000 people will attend DRAGON *CON. It is a huge deal. There’s a parade and everything.
I have a short list of people I’d like to see, including Mickey Dolenz, Adam West and Nathan Fillion…
Southeast of downtown in a small artsy town, many others will wander around Decatur for the annual Book Festival. There will be poetry, fiction, history, writing classes, book sales, panels with best sellers, readings by Pulitzer prize winners, cooking classes and stuff for the kids, plus my fav pub with one of the best selections …
Feast of Love: add this movie to your list
Sometimes you read a novel and think: This is beautiful. I can’t write like this. And then you hear it’s been picked up, and you worry that Hollywood will ruin it.
And then you watch it and cry and laugh and remember why you loved the characters in the book and you think, okay, I can do this, and how wonderful would it be if the words on my page came out as crying, laughing, smiling, loving people on a forty foot screen.
BTW
I met Charles Baxter in New York, told him how much I loved the book and …
That ain't no etch-a-sketch. This is one doodle that can't be un-did, homeskillet.
Since I saw the movie, JUNO, I’ve been shuffling scribbled notes around my desk, from bird to mermaid paper weights and back again.. .forgetting I could just click on the IMDb page at any time to remind myself of the great dialogue.
like:
[at Juno's ultrasound]
Leah: Whoa! Check out Baby Big Head. Dude, that thing is freaky lookin’.
Juno MacGuff: Excuse me. I am a sacred vessel, alright? All you’ve got in your stomach is Taco Bell.
Juno MacGuff: [voice over] When I see them all running like that, with their things bouncing …
Love the one you're with.
My friend, Emily Giffin‘s new book is out.
Go buy it.
I went to her book launch last night and saw all the pretty people. I go to a lot of these things, calling it research, and networking. Building friendships with people who usually hole up in coffee shops or basement offices with fictional characters is hard.
At these events I usually end up taking home some great ideas for when it will be my turn- for MY book… last night, with positive reports from two NY agents ringing in …
I waited a long time to hear my kid say this.
9 year old in her bed this morning, book in hand:
“I wish there was a day where you could just stay in bed and read.”
Me: “There is, bunny. It’s called Saturday.
This is a huge step for the girl I tried to bribe with shoes to read just ONE book all the way through. She tests in the top of her class in reading skills, so it isn’t that she CAN’T do it, it was just her FINALLY finding an author she digs enough to continue reading and reading– maybe even in bed all day. Man, can I …
