I love getting packages in the mail, don’t you? I love the mystery of not knowing what’s inside, and even if I know what’s inside, I still love the opening part. Maybe it reminds me of Christmas and that wonder, that thrill. Whatever the case, a few weeks ago, I received a small package in… Read More Work included in The Best of Brilliant Flash Fiction anthology
Swimming Lessons, by Clare Fuller, Tin House Books, 354 pages You know how sometimes you find a book that clicks with you so that you have no choice but to suspend your life in order to cozy down with it? Swimming Lessons is like that. It’s not a perfect book but it has some damn… Read More Book review: Swimming lessons by Clare Fuller
The bad news: I failed on my 2016 Goodreads Book Challenge goal. The good news: I missed it by only three books so I’m going ahead and calling it a success. My goal was 65 books. I squeaked by with 62 and trust me, I finished that last book minutes before midnight, too (this is… Read More My 2016 Book Challenge results
My flash fiction piece “Savages” is up at Panoplyzine. Here’s the beginning: Savages by Cinthia Ritchie Summers, we live like savages out at our mother’s fish camp. We don’t bathe. We wear the same clothes for weeks. Our smells swim through the tent, thick and oily. Our teeth remain unbrushed and after a few days our gums… Read More Flash fiction up at Panoplyzine
I didn’t think I’d like The Daddy Diaries by Joshua Braff. For one thing, it’s written by a man. No offense, but 90% of the books I read are written by women. I don’t consciously gravitate toward women authors; it just sort of/kind of happens. **Note: Please don’t confuse The Daddy Diaries book with The Daddy Diaries blog by the cowboy-hat-wearing,… Read More The Daddy Diaries review
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