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…
By Michelle Ule on Mar 5, 2010 in Blog, Fiction, Reading | 3 Comments
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.…
By Michelle Ule on Mar 4, 2010 in Blog, Fiction, Reading | 8 Comments
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…
By Michelle Ule on Mar 3, 2010 in Blog, Fiction, Reading | 6 Comments
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…
By Michelle Ule on Mar 2, 2010 in Blog, Reading | 6 Comments
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…
By Michelle Ule on Mar 1, 2010 in Blog, Reading | 13 Comments
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…
By Etta Wilson on Feb 22, 2010 in Blog, Fiction, Reading | 5 Comments
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…
By janetgrant on Feb 4, 2010 in Blog, Life, Reading | 9 Comments
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…
By Etta Wilson on Jan 27, 2010 in Blog, Children's books, Reading, Writing Life | 8 Comments
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…
By Etta Wilson on Jan 26, 2010 in Blog, Children's books, Reading, Writing Life | 9 Comments
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…
By Etta Wilson on Jan 25, 2010 in Children's books, Reading | 4 Comments
