Monthly Archives: February 2008
In Their Words: Colleen Gleason
I first encountered Colleen Gleason and her wonderful vampire series when someone recommended her work in the comments of this blog. A short time later, she herself commented here, and we’ve exchanged blog comments ever since (though, that’s only been a few months). She is warm, funny, and completely approachable, and even though I confess … Continue reading
In Their Words: Colleen Gleason (Part 1)
Intro | Part Two * * * * * What question are you never, or rarely, asked in interviews, that you really wish people would ask? How would you answer it? Hmm. I really can’t think of anything that I haven’t been asked. I must have good interviewers. Conversely, what question are you often asked, … Continue reading
In Their Words: Colleen Gleason (Part 2)
Intro | Part One * * * * * What are you reading these days? Or, what types of things do you like to read when you have time? I read a variety of things, but I generally stay away from books in the genre that I write–namely, at this time, vampire books. I like … Continue reading
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name
by Vendela Vida I’ve been fascinated by the Ice Hotel in Lapland since I first saw a Discovery Channel documentary about it, (Incidentally, can you imagine asking for home insurance quotes on a structure made of ice?) so when this novel by Vendela Vida, Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name caught my attention, and … Continue reading
Amy and Isabelle
by Elizabeth Strout Continuing the recent trend of reading books about mother-daughter relationships, I picked up Amy and Isabelle because I liked the cadence of the title, and found myself in a slow novel, not in the plodding sense of the word, but in the sense that this was a story of gradual emergence. The … Continue reading
Home from the Vinyl Cafe
by Stuart McLean This book is subtitled “A Year of Stories,” so I knew that it would be short stories and vignettes, which makes it an excellent bathroom book, incidentally, but when I read the blurb on the back and it mentioned that Dave owned a record store, I was expecting at least something involving … Continue reading
