Rereading an old favorite. Wondering if Bobbie Johnson, who appears to have been the only person to ever borrow this book from the Coastal Plain Regional Library, enjoyed it as much as I do.

Didn't mean to match my caftan to my book, but here we are.

It must be summer, because I'm getting paid to read Daniel Silva.

"Shit, I am writing this for the reader over my shoulder." Aren't we all?

Excellent epigrams.

Rededicating myself to Tarot. This book is great.

"We may have a fundamental conflict here."

"I think it's because we're all built from each other."

Just arrived in the mail... #tbrtuesday

I don't read a lot of thrillers, but the early reviews for this one have been so good... I am as not disappointed. The ending was both chilling and exhilarating, a rare combination. I expect this to be one of the biggest hits of the summer. #beachread

Mystery with a touch of fantasy. A friend suspected I would love this, and she was right!

Excited to be reading this. Grateful to be writing about it for Women's Review of Books.

"So little time to pass?" Said Merlyn, and a big tear ran down to the end of his nose.

This doesn't read like science fiction anymore.

I wasn't sure why I felt the need to revisit this book until I did. Now it's obvious. It's the story of a brave, brilliant, resourceful woman triumphing over a venal little ego-driven man. I really needed that.

"In either case, it was clear to me that if you really wanted to be a writer, you didn't send away the weasel."

"After awhile, the number of gold-encrusted rooms began to seem not just eccentric but actually insane." Timely, no?

Poignant, hilarious, and beautifully crafted.

I asked my writing workshop to read “The Tiger‘s Bride.” I wanted to revisit this story because I felt like we were about to arrive in a world not entirely unlike the one Carter tried to write into being. After the election, though, this story had a different feel. We talked about was the author‘s idea that narrative is “an argument stated in fictional terms,” that all stories have an agenda. So, keep writing, writers, and make your words matter.