While working with a playwright at The Writer Workshop in Savannah, we found ourselves having a discussion about planting seeds in our work. We offer clues early in the text about where we’re headed, about where our audience will travel, about where our characters will encounter challenge and growth. The seeds might be tiny, just a […]
Author: Gregory
Gone Girl
I like unreliable narrators, but by the end of this book I actually hated both the main characters. While the plot is tight, there are huge holes generated by the secondary characters, holes that are never filled or explained. The writing is actually interesting and Flynn has created strong characters on the page, but I […]
Dream Date
Well, someone heard me. For years and years, I’ve dreamed of having tea with Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. Well, other’s wanted that, too. (And, they included Joan Plowright and Eileen Atkins, such a bonus). Is it great television? No. Is it a great interview? No, not really. But, for 90 minutes you get to […]
Angels and Demons
Fly Girls
Thoroughly enjoyed Kieth O’Brien’s nonfiction work Fly Girls. It’s interesting to me to learn about new technology and in the 1920s and 1930s, flying was one of the new technologies. I’m also interested in the progress of women and find it interesting how the women were treating during the emergence of this technology. For some […]
The Hate U Give
This is an amazing and remarkable book. It’s engaging and incredibly well written. I felt quickly invested in Starr’s life and journey and found myself sad when the story ended. The novel is the journey of Starr, a sixteen-year-old who witnesses the death of two childhood friends: one at the hands of a cop; one […]
Taking a Break
Churchill and Orwell
Just finished Churchill and Orwell: Fight for Freedom. Just finished Churchill and Orwell: Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks. I don’t know what to think. I don’t really know what the goal of this book was. It certainly didn’t meet my expectations based on the title. And, it was a NYT bestseller, so lots of […]