by amiemccracken | Sep 23, 2010 | about me, books, Jane Austen, reading, three things thursdays
I’m terribly sick this week, but I couldn’t miss Thursday! So after learning what you’re passionate about (or in my case what I write), I’d like to know what you read. I think what someone reads says a lot about who they are. What you choose to...
by amiemccracken | Aug 18, 2010 | books, reading
I’ve been hibernating since I got back from London. My husband bought me a pile of books. My choice of English books…I never realized how limited the amount of English books in Germany would be until I went back to London and had five floors of books to...
by amiemccracken | Aug 2, 2010 | reading
We interrupt this regularly scheduled Word of the Week to celebrate 150 stalkers! I feel like really giving you guys a gift for being my stalkers. So here we go. Penguin books has a new collection of cloth-bound classic books. The covers are beautifully designed, and...
by amiemccracken | Jul 18, 2010 | books, reading
I have a love affair with movies. It’s not a secret, I have tons of DVDs sitting upstairs that I watch over and over again. I have movies on my external hard drive, movies on a flash drive, movies on my computer. It’s certainly a faster escape than a book,...
by amiemccracken | Jul 2, 2010 | editing, reading, writing
I posted my review of The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer (click on Bree Tanner). Let me know what you think. I still don’t feel very confident reviewing books. I can’t seem to get out in writing how the book really made me feel. Which...
by amiemccracken | Jun 10, 2010 | reading, writing
Be prepared, this is kind of a vent session on my writing. I’ve been struggling since November with my inner editor. I participated in NaNoWriMo and wrote 50,000 words in a month. (Yay!) It is my first finished manuscript. Typically I get about 10,000 words in,...
