Books, Books and More Books. Stop by and read a few sentences about the books I love and the books I hated. Leave a comment or two. I am a former librarian and a voracious reader. THE PEARL THAT BROKE ITS SHELL by Nadia Hashimi. THE PEARL THAT BROKE ITS SHELL by Nadia Hashimi.

I have just started writing my own stuff. But I have been helping independent authors get published for a few years now. I wish I had read this before I saw the movie. It took me two tries to read this book.

I am a multi-published author of contemporary and paranormal romance. I am also host of the blogtalkradio show NICE GIRLS READING NAUGHTY BOOKS. Reblogged from Nice Girls Reading Naughty Books. THE GIRLS ON ROSE HILL. Ellen Murphy spent her childhood in an idyllic house by the sea. A house surrounded by flower filled gardens and a white picket fence. A house she fled at eighteen. A house full of secrets.

The act of writing always creates something of value. From humble days as a bookseller in Colorado, I now live in NYC and work for one of the big publishing houses.

Chronicling my 2015 reads on this swanky new website. The problem with this film is that it had so.

I so wanted to love this one and I kind of liked some parts, but in a guilty, not-so-proud-of-myself kind of way.

Major book geek who goes through random hobby phase more often than my income actually allows. I am an older sister, I have a pet dog, and I want to travel the world. And so I lay there, just listening, knowing that each breath was another moment he was still here and, simultaneously, that meant that he had just moved a little closer to being gone.