by Laura K Curtis | Jun 16, 2016 | Books, Writing
(A cross-post from Angela Ackerman. I have the Emotion Thesaurus and plan to get the settings books as well, so I’ve given her the floor to discuss the settings thesauri on this, the week of their release.) It is a writer’s job to draw readers into the...
by Laura K Curtis | Jun 15, 2016 | Books, TBR Challenge
So I am switching it up a little this month. Instead of doing a single book review for the TBR Challenge, I am going to talk about a bunch of books, all with (at least relatively) happy endings, that cost more than you might usually spend on a book but are worth every...
by Laura K Curtis | May 18, 2016 | Books, TBR Challenge
This month’s challenge was to read something in your TBR pile that was “different.” I chose Julia, a classic horror novel by Peter Straub that I somehow didn’t read when I was in my horror phase in the 1980s. Published in 1975, it was made into...
by Laura K Curtis | Apr 20, 2016 | Books, TBR Challenge
Now, really, there’s no point in writing a review of this book. Miss Bates’s review moved it to the top of my TBR, and you should all immediately go read her review and imagine me saying “ditto.” The charm of spending the Christmas holidays in...
by Laura K Curtis | Mar 16, 2016 | Books, TBR Challenge, Writing
This book actually hasn’t been in my TBR all that long. But at the end of last year I decided I wanted to try writing a different kind of book and as I tried to get my head around it, I had a lot of trouble imagining that I would make it all the way through. I...
by Laura K Curtis | Feb 17, 2016 | Books, TBR Challenge
Last year, a bunch of Susanna Kearsley’s books went on sale on Amazon. I’d been wanting to pick them up, but kept putting it off because of the price. If I love an author’s work, I don’t care what it costs, but I had never read her and...
