Guess what? I’m featured on Reading Recommendations, along with my first novel (well, my only novel so far but saying first novel makes it sound much more impressive), “Dolls Behaving Badly,” and I have to admit, the post looks awesome good, too (thanks so so much, Susan!). There’s even a picture of me with The… Read More I’m on Reading Recommendations
Happy Leap Day, everyone. An extra day (!!) to write and submit and obsess and waste time not writing and then even more time by obsessing over why you’re not writing. Mondays, I submit (submit to the master, oh lord, do I sound like I might write “Fifty Shades of Grey” wannabe erotica, lol?). And… Read More A little extra, for Leap Day
I’m embarrassed to admit this, but even though I’m a writer, who very much depends on book bloggers and their reviews, I never gave much thought behind how difficult it is to write reviews, week after week. Until I started posting my own reviews on this blog. Then it hit me: It’s hard, hard, hard… Read More Hello, Julie Valerie, book blogger extraordinaire
I don’t make New Year’s resolutions. I’ve never been that type of person. This year, instead, I challenged myself to a few goals. The first is to read 65 books. At the time, it seemed a reasonable goal. I love to read, and I read as much as I can. So really, how hard could it… Read More My reading challenge
It’s late at night, the moon shining through the living room window. I should be asleep but I’m not. I’m lying with the cat, awake but sleepy. I’m enjoying the night, enjoying the silence, enjoying my own company. My partner is away for the night, down in Homer to check on the cabin while I… Read More A night alone (or, my crush on a Trixie Belden character)
What I like about my eReader is that it allows me to browse books that I normally wouldn’t read, books outside the usual genres I favor (literary fiction, women’s fiction, memoir, poetry and just about anything running related). Sometimes, being pulled out of my comfort zone is a good thing. Sometimes it isn’t. In the… Read More Whereas Cinthia reads and reviews a mystery novel
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)
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)
When I found out that my cat was dying of cancer, I wanted one thing: To be around water. I wanted to dive down deep inside a lake; I wanted to swim fast laps in the salt water pool at the YMCA; I wanted to walk along the beach during high tide, the waves singing… Read More Water and redemption
Cinthia Ritchie 