I first read Kari Neumeyer’s memoir Bark and Lunge: Saving My Dog From Training Mistakes about half a year ago and immediately wanted to write about it. But my dog was dying and I was afraid that if I wrote a review of a book where (spoiler alert!) someone else’s dog dies, then my dog would… Read More Bark and Lunge (and hello, Kari Neumeyer)
Okay, I’m probably the last person in the world to have finished Gone Girl and I’m equally fascinated, frustrated, obsessed and in awe. **Warning: Spoiler alerts*** I finished the book in less than three days. I stayed up until 5 a.m. reading two nights ago; I literarily couldn’t put it down (don’t you love when that… Read More Gone girl (yes, I finally read it)
Ever since I got my Kindle (and just because I love my Kindle doesn’t mean I love Amazon or approve of their tactics in the whole Hachette/Amazon fiasco, which was recently resolved but not after Amazon “hijacked” my book Dolls Behaving Badly for close to a year), I’ve been happily downloading books that I wouldn’t have… Read More What I’m reading (and Barbie, with zits)
Why is it easier to write while away from home? Is it because, once out of your normal environment, you feel free of burdens, free of constraints, free of all of those nagging doubts and insecurities that settle down wherever you call home? Last week I left Anchorage and flew to my sister’s in Philly, where I met my… Read More Writing while away from home
Well, my project to write each day of September was a big, fat failure. Oh, I wrote, I just didn’t write my stuff. I wrote journalism stories and briefs and obituaries. Which is still writing, still honing the craft. But it didn’t cause me to ponder or question or wonder or dig down deep inside of myself,… Read More Writing fail, and big Alaska photo drop
I love reading blogs. It’s my biggest guilty pleasure. I’m not much for Facebook and while I do love Twitter, my heart lies with blogs. Following other people’s lives feels slightly voyeuristic, much like luxuriating inside a long novel. You begin to know people, and care about them, even though you’ve never met. You build relationships. I “met” Eliza… Read More An unlikely agent success story
I can’t remember when I first fell in love with books but I know that it was early, and that I fell hard. I read all through elementary school. I sat at my desk, a book tucked on my lap, and as the rest of the class learned fractions and state abbreviations, I paced my… Read More Kindle love (or, I’m reading as fast as I can)
Welcome to Texas. No, I’m not in the second biggest state (Alaska is bigger, hee, hee), but my book is. A friend from my writing group (thanks, Lucian!), spotted Dolls Behaving Badly at the Hudson Bookstore in the Dallas-Fort Worth airport. So. Friggin’. Cool. Big-haired Texans will soon be reading my naughty prose. I love the… Read More I’m in the Dallas-Fort Worth airport, or at least my book is
The holidays are over and the beasts have devoured their cat and dog treats. The tree is still up, of course. One year it stayed up until April because when you live in Alaska in the winter, you welcome any and all blinking lights. My favorite gift? Not the Brooks Utopia running jacket, highly-prized and a bright bluish-purplish… Read More Me and Barbie, welcoming in the new year
Cinthia Ritchie 