Our school had an author come and visit yesterday, Rosemary Clement-Moore.  She was awesome!  She has written five novels, but the two I've read and Love are The Splendor Falls and Texas Gothic.  (The other three are probably really good and they are each on my To-Be-Read pile.)

For her visit she talked about the genre, the Gothic Novel.  For the ( Read more... )

Hi Everyone!  (In case you couldn't tell...because it can be difficult to read tone in writing, that was a very cheery hello...a somewhat foolishly cheerful hello for someone who should not now be writing a post, but should rather have gone to bed an hour ago....but still, a very cheery hello)  Hi.

It may (or may not) please you to know that I have ( Read more... )

I mentioned in my earlier post, I've been looking over books and stories that were written many years ago, some as early as the 1880s and others as late as the 1930s. I love the way they had of speaking. Even simple statements have a certain poetry to them ( Read more... )