Reading, writing, and just general housework. Motherhood is an adventure. The biggest challenge is figuring out how to continue to live your life while simultaneously providing twenty-four hour care to a helpless infant. Truly a mind-boggling brain-teaser. However, I’ve learned a few things over the past two months about prioritization, multi-tasking, and efficiency. Reading – [...]

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Some additional thoughts on Kristin Maschka’s book about motherhood. I don’t normally read self-help type books, or advice books, or indeed generally any sort of non-fiction other than in very narrow fields such as Egyptology and Classical Studies. So, when my mother gave me a book on motherhood that she’d found in a bargain-bin, I [...]

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Erotic Romance novel by Scarlett Parrish Upon looking back over my blog a while ago, I realized that while I have a character interview with the love interest from Scarlett Parrish‘s erotic romance novel, By the Book, somehow I managed to not yet post my thoughts on the book itself. First, of course, the usual disclaimer [...]

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What the Goodreads statistics say I like to read. Back at the beginning of the year (wow, six months ago already) I mentioned that I was making a Goodreads account to keep track of what I read and/or wanted to read this year. I’ve been keeping up with it fairly well, except for a brief [...]

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Too bad he didn’t have one. If you pay any attention to my “Currently Reading” status at the bottom of each post, you may have noticed a succession of Shakespearean plays lately. I recently acquired (read: shamelessly stole from my cousin) my late grandmother’s Complete Works (edited by G. B. Harrison) and have been reading [...]

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Daniel Cross, from By the Book. Sunday I hinted at a surprise for today’s post. I am very pleased to announce that Crossbones, the Daniel Cross Official Fanclub scored an exclusive release-day interview with the aforesaid Daniel. He stars prominently in Scarlett Parrish’s excellent new release, By The Book. An erotic romance with plenty of snark [...]

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