February 2009
6 posts
I'm not really all that shy
So here’s a confession: I hate facing people after they have read something I wrote. I got over this fear in the creative writing program, because I had to be read in order to be graded, but the people who read me then were students. We were learning, we were supposed to be finding each other’s mistakes. This is different.
It’s worst with my family, because they tend to assume...
January 2009
5 posts
Some Books I Have Bought Recently, and Why, and...
Purchased today:
- Skelling, David Almond. Bought because I am trying to get sort of caught up with what the kids and young adults are reading today (except for anything remotely involving vampires and their sparkly true love), and also because it looks creepy as hell, and I am going through this ghost-phase with books. A phase that has lasted basically the last 23 years. Whatever. I might...
2008
Did that really just happen?