by LJ Metz | Jul 29, 2012 | What's On My Bookshelf
What intrigued me about Across The Universe wasn’t the promise of yet another YA love story or even a murder mystery set aboard a generation ship. No, what intrigued me was a premise that, in my own geeky way, I’d often wondered about. What if we could be...
by LJ Metz | Jul 19, 2012 | Blogs I Love!
I prefer to subscribe to blogs by email. Yet, I must admit to sometimes deleting the emailed posts before I even read them. Hey, life is busy, time is short and choices must be made. However, I have yet to delete one of John Guy Collick’s posts. In fact, the moment...
by LJ Metz | Jul 16, 2012 | What's On My Bookshelf
I love opening lines, and have been sucked into reading many books simply because of a line like the one below. “Dinnie, an overweight enemy of humanity, was the worst violinist in New York, but was practicing gamely when two cute little fairies stumbled through his...
by LJ Metz | Jun 8, 2012 | Blogs I Love!, What's On My Bookshelf
Full disclosure: Kimberly Pauley was in my writer’s group for (sadly) only a short time before she moved to London. She started writing Cat Girl’s Day Off while here in the Chicago area, and so I’d already read the first few chapters. Understand that I in no way felt...
by LJ Metz | May 22, 2012 | Searching For Meaning
About a week ago, I noticed one of my Twitter followers was a scalloped potato recipe. Linda’s scalloped potato recipe, to be (sort of) exact. I don’t know Linda, but I was able to get to know her scalloped potato recipe a little better by clicking on a link to it. I...
