Reading

Friday Free For All–Books Imitating Life

Michelle Ule

Blogger: Michelle Ule

Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.

I’ve written this week about how specific novels affected the early years of my marriage and thus my relationship with my terrific engineer husband. You don’t have to be married…

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Books reflecting too-real life

Michelle Ule

Blogger: Michelle Ule

Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.

They were sitting in the submarine wardroom on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean one morning, when the Commanding Officer entered and began his briefing for the planned war games.…

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Masterpiece Theater engineering romance

Michelle Ule

Blogger:  Michelle Ule

Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.

As aforementioned, my  husband and I became fans of PBS’s Masterpiece Theater early in our marriage. Back in those days, which seem almost Dickenesque now, the program aired once a week…

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Newlywedded books

Michelle Ule

Blogger:  Michelle Ule

Location: Drizzly Santa Rosa, Calif., main office

I never had paid a lot of attention to my boyfriend’s reading while we dated. We attended college sixty miles apart, and while I was immersed in Milton, Shakespeare, Chaucer and the…

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The marriage of ENG minds

Michelle Ule

Blogger: Michelle Ule

Location: The new main office in Santa Rosa, Calif.

My husband and I both majored in ENG in college. At UCLA, that meant ENGLISH. At Harvey Mudd College, that meant ENGINEERING. You can imagine how, theoretically, we could have been…

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Men in Print

Etta Wilson

Blogger: Etta Wilson

Location: Books & Such Nashville Office

Weather: Mid-40s

We’ve just passed Valentine’s Day, and as usual it  had a lot of emphasis on the romantic relationship. My sweetie tends to get more tender as the years go by, and I…

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Destressing Step 4: Find Relaxing Activities

janetgrant

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.

Each of us is wired differently, but one aspect we all have in common: Certain activities relieve stress. When life overflows with tension, we need to make a conscious…

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Male or Female-Who’s Reading and Who’s Writing?

Etta Wilson

Blogger:  Etta Wilson

Location: Books & Such Nashville Office

Weather: Cold and Wet

In Monday’s post on judging the “Letters to Authors” written by junior high students, a couple of other items caught my attention. One of those was the large number of…

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Readers and Race

Etta Wilson

Blogger:   Etta Wilson

Location: Books & Such Nashville Office

Weather: 42 and dreary

Another impression from my recent foray into judging the writing of junior highers is the diminished racial identity and perception among young readers. Several entries were in response to Warriors…

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More New Readers Found

Etta Wilson

Blogger: Etta Wilson

Location: Books & Such Nashville Office

Weather: Cold and wet

Wow, what good news to start a new year—adult fiction had positive sales last year. That’s according to Nielsen’s BookScan, which reports on 75% of the market. And it warms…

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