Living Outside the Lines
My new friend, Amy Shojai is the author of Complete Kitten Care. I wrote a review of her book on Tuesday. Today, I want us to have a conversation with Amy. I hope you enjoy getting to know her as much as I have. Hi Amy, I’m happy to have you hear. Thanks for coming [...]
Last summer I was part of Kristen Lamb’s blogging class, WANA711. This group became like a family of writers and friends supporting and encouraging one another. A few months ago, Angela Wallace had the brilliant idea to create a blog/book promotion tour that would draw attention to all the great books published within the group. [...]
Our High School Litearture Club is reading Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar this month. We’ll get together for a Roman/Italian meal and discussion about the play on April 2. The project for the play is called, “Create a Blog.” The kids were divided into two groups. One group will make a blog supporting Julius Caesar as King [...]
We’ve waited for weeks. It’s finally here. My son and his friends are geared up and ready to go. I just left the grocery store with ingredients to make queso, my special recipe, *YUM-YUM* shrimp, pulled beef for barbecue sandwiches, brownie mix and six kinds of soda. We’re having a Hunger Games party and it [...]
What is the most difficult book you read and enjoyed when you were 12? Conversations in Literature is a book club for all ages. In our club parents share books with their children and the children experience books. They don’t just read them. For every book there is a short literary lesson either on an [...]
My husband and somel of my friends are English geniuses. When I was in school I cared about grammar enough to make an “A”. Handling our language well matters more to me now because making an “A: means getting published:) What about you? Do you notice broken grammar rules? Which ones bother you most? [...]
OR Our reading club is designed to be an experience. Not an event or a task or a class or a meeting. It’s an experience. If you separate each part of our evening from the other parts you are left with a list of tasks. You might judge one as fun or the other as [...]
The Moving Target, a mystery novel written by Ross Macdonald in 1949. When the book was published, he chose the pseudonym John Macdonald after his father, John Macdonald Millar. It is believed he didn’t want to use his own name as his wife, Margaret Millar, was already an established writer. Writing goals can be like the [...]
Book Wyrm Reviews by Ali Poetry is threatening to me. In high school when we were given an assignment to find the meaning in a poem I felt like I was walking into the Valley of Doom. The words on the page stared at me like I was prey. I couldn’t hear my own thoughts [...]
Tonight our literature club will discuss The Iliad and then play board games made by the kids. They paired up and made board games based on the plot. This is always so much fun for them and for me. I love watching them have fun around books. Our next book is Julius Caesar, by Shakespeare. [...]
