- “An Afternoon at the Louvre”
New short story online, published by Infective INK in February - “We Were All Going to Be Writers”
New poem published by Pilgrimage.
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What I’m Reading, February 2012
- The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner
Combination travel and study on what places are happiest and some ideas why. Not a self-help. Good writer. - Anton Chekhov’s Short Stories, selected and edited by Ralph E Matlaw
A master of short story writing, whose work breaks many of the “rules.”
Publication Announced
A Saint Comes Stumbling In is now officially published. See more on this site or Prism Book Group. I’d really appreciate any reader reviews added to Amazon and Barnes and Noble sites because this will encourage others to read the work. Email me if you need assistance.
Event: Author Chat
I’ll be appearing on Saturday, February 25, with other authors from Inspired Romance on “Beat the Winter Blues Chat,” between 3 and 7 p.m. EST (1 to 5 p.m. MST) on Coffee Time Romance, from 3:00pm-7:00pm EST on the Chatters E-loop, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/karenfindoutaboutnewbooks. I believe you must join the Yahoo group to participate, but I’m not sure.
What I’m reading, January 2012
- Everything Is Obvious: Once You Know the Answer, by Duncan J. Watts
The role of “common sense,” if there is such a thing, in making
choices and plans for the future. Sociologist/physicist Watts shows how we understand less about human behavior than we think, and attempts to predict, manage, or manipulate social and economic systems often go awry. - The Man of Property (The Forsyte Saga, Volume I), by John Galsworthy
Overlooked this classic for years, but since it was first published in England in 1906, I have an excuse. This pictures a capitalist, upper-middle-class family with its customs, emotional turmoil, lifestyle, and the times of the late 1800s. - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander
A thought-provoking, fascinating, and well researched commentary about the current state of racial discrimination in the US. It hasn’t disappeared; it’s disguised as anti-crime. An eye-opener. - White Noise, by Don DeLillo
I missed this winner of the 1985 National Book Award when it was first published. Dark, satirical, crammed full of American life with all its highs and lows, protagonist and professor Gladney and his family address major questions and issues of life.
Bonnie McCune, author 