SWEETHEARTS by Sara Zarr

  We have a house guest which makes me totally guilty of neglect. I blame it on Zarr’s great writing! It is true that yesterday, I left the entertaining to my husband (and also made our guest fend for herself) while I read SWEETHEARTS straight through. I liked...

CASSIE WAS HERE by Caroline Hickey

Wow! Another MG book that I love. Maybe I was just reading the wrong MGs before when I said I didn’t like MG that much. This one is really good. I think Caroline Hickey does a great job of tackling a subject that I haven’t come across before in a book (not...

Music and writing

I read a lot of writers’ blogs and many of them create playlists for their characters and listen to them while they write. I cannot listen to music while I’m working, but music is a huge part of all my writing. Before I met my husband, I owned seventeen...