Chateau de Gudanes

Have you heard about this? An Australian couple is restoring a 94-room chateau in middle-of-nowhere, France, blogging about it, and even Instagramming. File under “to do once I make my millions.”

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Do you mispronounce the words you read?

My father is an avid reader (which is presumably where I got it from). And my grandma loves to tell stories about how he was always mispronouncing words he’d read in books.

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On Word Count (or Cutting out the Dog)

(Image found here) I finished what I thought was the final draft of the novel I’ve been working on for the past five years this past Christmas Eve, at my parents’ house, in the morning over coffee next to the Christmas Tree. I remember sitting back, stunned. Am I done revising? Is this really it? Well, no.

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That Moment When…

I cried on the subway this morning. This is a beautiful book. Go read it.

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Aspirations (or On the Brilliance that is Tana French)

I have what you’d call an eclectic taste in books. I’ve read obscure books, trendy books, YA, middle-grade, crime thrillers, memoirs, you name it.

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Feeling wanderlusty

Jesus Christ, I miss traveling.

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On Secondary Characters

I’m an obsessive reader. I’d rather go without food than without books (for a little while at least). I’ve  just recently decided to break into the NA category. While I have positive and negative things to say about all of the books I read, there was something that stood out in nearly all of them that […]

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What’s in a name?

After all, that which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet. No offense to Juliet, but I think names are important. When I start writing a story and need to name my characters, one of two things happens:

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Writing versus Blogging—The Epic Struggle

So when I started this blog I was actually thinking I’d be posting to it more often. All the ideas! Can’t keep up!

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Hearing the People Sing

I saw Les Misérables on Broadway on Saturday. It was my favorite play growing up and I hadn’t seen it in about ten years. I’m happy to report it’s still amazing (in case you were wondering).

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