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  • NaNoWriMo is coming . . .

    . . . and I still need a plan. I suppose it’s about time for me to set something in stone and (hopefully) keep to it when the time comes. Here are my thoughts. 1. I need to decide what to do about marketing my novel. I have been tossing around the idea of changing…

  • 10 Novels That Have Shaped the Stuff that Liz Writes

    I see a lot of those Internet lists that have titles like, “100 Classic Novels You Are a Dunce If You Haven’t Read by the Time You’re 20” and “20 New Novels That Are Totally In Style and Stuff So Read Them Blah.” The thing is, I have always felt a little iffy about these…

  • The last two weeks . . .

    . . . have been pretty hectic. Somehow I still manage to get into all kinds of things to do, even though I’m done with my degree and probably should just be sleeping and eating and reading (for FUN!). Which, granted, I have been doing a lot of. The last two weeks, however, were busy.…

  • What is Liz Reading? — a review and minor gush-fest of “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe” by Charles Yu

    Surprise surprise, I’m reading something I’ve already read three times. More surprise, it’s my favorite book: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu. This book. This book. It was an accidental purchase on my Kindle about three years ago. I got a sample, thinking it looked neat but hesitant to spend the $10. I devoured the…

  • New Stuff

    Aha! Two posts in a week! I’m on a roll. Look around you, dear readers, at my newly redone website. The horror of my thesis reading list is no more, so I deleted that page, which I’m sure caused a deep sigh of relief somewhere in the universe (actually, no, it just came from me).…

  • I’ve finally crawled out from under my rock

    Dear Long-Suffering People that Still Follow this Site for Some Reason, I’ve been sleeping under a rock for the last month or so. My thesis defense went well (yay!) and I passed (more yay!) and then I hid under a boulder and have been doing nothing except eating excessive amounts of carbohydrates, drinking excessive amounts…

  • Reading List # 10 — Atonement

    I recently read Atonement by Ian McEwan for class. This was a marvelous book. Touching, mysterious, and tense, this novel weaves through and around the life of thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis as she grows into being a writer and an individual. Atonement doesn’t shy away from the idea that being a writer means taking risks that sometimes don’t always turn…

  • Reading List #9 — The Girl in the Flammable Skirt

    Hello again, dear Readers. Once again I am back with another installment of What is Liz Reading This Week? starring, well, me. After putting down the heavy weight of Go Tell it on the Mountain, Aimee Bender’s short story collection The Girl in the Flammable Skirt was a breath of air – but not necessarily…

  • Reading List #8 — Go Tell it on the Mountain

    The past couple of weeks I visited family in good ole West Virginia, and I read two books and just under half of another. The posts that follow are what I read while I was there. Maybe James Baldwin’s well-known religious-themed Go Tell it on the Mountain was appropriate fare for my trip. This text…

  • Reading List # 7 — Cat’s Cradle

    Recently I read Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and I have to say that I am surprised that this is my first time reading it. I should have discovered Vonnegut ages ago. I should have read his whole body of work by now. In short, I love it and I’m glad to be reading it. Some…