"I wanted to tell him that I'm not the sort of writer who sits in her room and writes." Page 10.

I ver much realted to this line.

Loved THIS COULD HURT. Funny and smart and sexy and a little bit sad, all set in corporate headquarters. Reminded me of when I worked in HR, how all of our lives became interwined.

I love the lines about courage, comparing a trip around the world to buying a stck of gum. I am suoer enjoying LESS.

"I had been lying. They were the words I needed to say, to allow me to get on the plane. I just didn't know it at the time." Page 200.

The Red Car comes out in paperback on September 12, 2017.

I used to write at a communal space called The Writers Room in NYC. I wrote Twins and Bad Marie there. Today, the director asked me to sign twelve copies which they would be giving to donors. I found it very gratifying.

I am looking forward to reading Edan Lepucki's new book. Saw it in a store window and took a picture with Nina who thought it was weird, since it wasn't my book.

Gosh. This book made me cry. A woman dying if cancer writing to her six year old son. I like a cathartic good cry and I could relate to worries about letting her kids Dad into her child's life.

Just finished chapter five. Beth just made a friend.and admits to her husband that she likes something. This book is set after Obama won the election and it feels so long ago. Loke a better time. and the writing? the story, the characters. It is lovely to read.

Oh no. A leaf blower. Nice to discover this paragraph in Dave Egger's novel.

So far so much of his writing about a single mother has registered as true.

i read this book after it won the National Book Award. So painful to read about the things that happen to Cora. Slavery made real by reading about real characters. Such an achievement.

I have a friend reading this book now. She is the mother of eight--year old twins. She told me was disturbed and I hastened to tell her that Cbloe and Sue are fictional characters, a testament to my twisted imagination and not what will happen to her kids. Also, her twins are fraternal. A boy and girl. Completely different.

Couldnt put this book down. Also made me scared to have a daughter, afraid about the enormity of secrets could keep.

Serious Hannah Lee. She is the center of a tragedy, the link between two sad families. it was a surprose where this book took the reader. I love that Claudine at School, the Collette novel, was an important to the story. I read all of those Claudine books when I was in high school.

I love this novel. This is a book I read again and again in order to understand how well it all worked. Simple and perfect. I loved Iris and the weird jobs she had to take, her life in New York.

This book is like magic. The author, Rachel Hulin, is also a photographer. She took pictures of her son to make it look as if he can fly. I am lucky to have a framed print. I hung it in my living room.

Trying to write a short essay about music in the novel, but every time I get up, this happens.

So, escaping into a book. Pregnant Izzie took her boyfriend Hal to the movies and he freaked out and had a fight with the two guys in the seat behind him because they would not stop talking. And, I have been drawing flowers.

i signed some copies of my book today at Barnes & Noble in New York today. I met a woman who was so excited to meet an author and asked me tons of questions. There was an awkward moment where I did not know what happened next. I could have said "I will sign one for you if you want," but I didn't want to pressure her into buying my book so instead I said "Nice to meet you" and left.

After binging on the Parent Trap, Nina and I are rereading this book. I kove that it is a classic and released by the imprint in my friends name.

reading this book. so far, super fun.

A picture of Robin Black I took at the Point Street Readong Series in Providence, Rhode Island. I love her essays on writing. They are aboit craft but they are also deeply personal.

I feel pretty lucky to have a galley of Kevin Wilson's new novel.

a classic.

Here I am. New on Litsy. Looking around. I saw that there were no tags on this book and so I figured why not. It is not like I am biased on anything.

This book was extraordinary. I only just read it and now I miss it. Thrilled that Emily will be joining me at my launch event.