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A Story I Can’t Stop Thinking About

March 27, 2018May 13, 2021 ~ Mary Kate ~ Leave a comment

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I’d heard people talking about the 2017 film Call Me By Your Name, obviously, but I didn’t get around to seeing it until, funnily enough, flying home from San Francisco yesterday.

Did it live up to the hype?

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The Common Threads Running Through Our Stories

December 6, 2017May 13, 2021 ~ Mary Kate ~ Leave a comment

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What common threads run through your fiction?
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The Sisters Who Travel Together

July 20, 2016May 17, 2021 ~ Mary Kate ~ 3 Comments

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Continuing with my travel essays series, this week I bring you: how a week in the tower room of a French chateau with my sister taught me the secret to family harmony.

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Learning from the Masters: On Varying Sentence Length

September 24, 2015May 14, 2021 ~ Mary Kate ~ 3 Comments

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What would you say the goal of writing a novel is?

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Book Review: The Infernal Devices

March 10, 2015May 17, 2021 ~ Mary Kate ~ 15 Comments

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“Heroes endure because we need them. Not for their own sakes.”

I finished The Mortal Instruments series a couple of months ago, and while I most certainly enjoyed it, it definitely had its highs and lows, a mix of 3, 4, and 5-star moments. I put off reading The Infernal Devices because I thought my experience would be the same.

I was wrong.

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What (I Think) Really Happened in Tana French’s In the Woods

July 2, 2014May 17, 2021 ~ Mary Kate ~ 63 Comments

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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS AFTER THE JUMP

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The Accidental Writer

June 27, 2014May 17, 2021 ~ Mary Kate ~ 3 Comments
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 Tana French (whom I LOVE) on accidentally becoming a writer (from this interview):

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70th Anniversary of D-Day

Image ~ June 6, 2014May 17, 2021 ~ Mary Kate ~ 7 Comments

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I know there’s a lot going on today–Friday! TFIOS!–but I still think the best thing about today is that it’s the 70th anniversary of D-Day. An important turning point of the last indisputably “good” war America fought in, a day so many sacrifices were made.

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Do you mispronounce the words you read?

May 14, 2014May 17, 2021 ~ Mary Kate ~ 2 Comments

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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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Aspirations (or On the Brilliance that is Tana French)

May 7, 2014May 17, 2021 ~ Mary Kate ~ 16 Comments

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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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