… Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About the Details and Just Have Fun I’ve been asked to discuss writing for a middle grade audience. These are the kids who have moved on from picture books and early readers, but maybe don’t yet relate to the characters or situations in young adult or teen…
Category Archives: On Reading
On Reading: The Book Within a Book
As a work-study kid in college, my required reading lists relegated me to shelf upon shelf of used books. I recall finally finding a way to appreciate Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway only to have my hard work shattered by a series of margin notes by the previous reader highlighting the many ways the story had…
On Reading: Audiobooks and Errands (with Giveaway)
I love audiobooks. I probably have “read” at least 5 books with my ears each year ever since I got my first ipod four years ago (at least — this year I’ve already listened to more than that in the first quarter alone!). When the kids and I drove cross-country from Connecticut to Texas two…
On Reading: Chasing the Wind
In my “real life” of maintaining a household, being a wife and a friend and a mother, a cook, a chauffeur, laundress and shelf-stocker, I often feel as though I’m chasing the wind. Am I the only one? I start the morning with a clean sink and clear countertop, and by noon, after a few…
On Reading: For Expectant Mothers, and Beyond
We all know that pregnancy changes our bodies, our emotions, and how we understand the world. It’s no surprise that pregnancy and motherhood can also change what and how we read. Like a lot of women, I read voraciously when I became pregnant. A writer and professor, I was used to reading a book a…
On Reading: Reading Aloud Poetry for Children
This Wednesday, March 9, is the 2nd Annual World Read Aloud Day, sponsored by LitWorld, an international nonprofit for literacy advocacy and education. LitWorld aims—among other things–to teach 1 million children to read by 2014, and the annual World Read Aloud Day was created to spread and celebrate the joy of reading. Writers, educators, and…
On Reading: Season’s Readings
As the outdoor thermometer moved steadily toward the 70 degree mark, I sat on my front step watching the children revel in the joy of playing outside sans jackets. Even though the calendar read mid-February, the weather was conveying late-April, early-May, especially with the sunshine and slight breeze warming my face. Ah, spring will be…
On Reading: Hello, Kindle my Old Friend
I love my Kindle. I really do. I don’t use it as often as I’d like, because the vast majority of the books I read are sent as Advanced Reader Copies (ARCs) from publishers, so I’m not buying many books, but when I do use it, I am reminded how very much I love it….
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