Baby Steps
I have the tendency to look forward to all the things I am hoping will happen. This means I exist in a state of anticipation rather than just sitting back and enjoying the good things that come to me. I […]
Treggiari
ARCS!!!!!!!
ARCS! ARCS are advance reading copies. They have nothing to do with Narcs. Or arks. They are exciting things because they go to reviewers and they are the first proof that in fact one is not dreaming and that there […]
My 10 Best YA Picks of 2010
1) Mockingjay- Suzanne Collins 2) White Cat- Holly Black 3) Wasted- Nicola Morgan 4) Behemoth- Scott Westerfeld 5) Will Grayson Will Grayson- John Green & David Levithan 6) Before I Fall- Lauren Oliver 7) Going Bovine- Libba Bray 8) Seth […]
Tomayto. Tomahrto.
My mum is a Brit but I mostly grew up in the States. She says ‘tomahrto’. I say ‘tomayto’ unless I am visiting the UK and then I make a special effort to say it their way. Now, having also […]
Ashes, Ashes is on Amazon.com now!!!!
The official publication date for ASHES, ASHES is June 1 2011 but it is finally (and with the fabulous final cover) up on Amazon.com. Don’t Lucy and Aidan look great! You can check out the link here
Nostalgia or something like that
It’s the day before the 1st of December.Tomorrow the kids get their advent calendars (the German kind with chocolates behind each window, of course).I almost bought a box of Xmas crackers this morning. I was supposed to be buying photo […]
Happy Day!
Although I am Canadian, and now (after 30 years or so elsewhere) live in Canada again, and although we celebrated the Canadian Thanksgiving with the rest of the country last month, American Thanksgiving remains close to my heart.As newcomers to […]
Paths
I recently started taking yoga so forgive me if I tread the path of enlightenment for just a moment.There’s a lot of meditation in the class. And also a lot of inversions (hanging upside down), and bendy exercises and pose-striking.(note- […]
Oh I’ve got a secret
Well it’s not really a secret because I’m about to tell you…But maybe you can guess. The picture above is a clue.Yes, a clue. (Hmmm. Enigmatic wrinkling of the brow). I just received a box by special courier from NYC.And […]
High School Sucked!
At some point in high school- perhaps for all of the 10th grade- I was often called ‘Joey Ramone’. People on the street would yell at me as I slunk along trying to blend into the shadows.One might conceivably take […]