Beach Music sat in my TBR pile for years while I passed by. At over 700 pages it intimidated me. I like novels around 200-250 pages. The Great Gatsby clocks in at 208 paged; Catcher In The Rye runs 234 pages, more or less. Beach Music at 800 pages? I got a Harry Potter vibe […]
Today Is A Special Day For Someone, What’s Your Day Like
July 12, 2018 by
Coaches have had a grand time reminding their athletes that, “There’s someone somewhere training just as hard as you. Time to step it up.” They say this right after you’ve had a special day of success so you won’t let it go to your head too fast. Or, “Someone is training harder […]
Life Plan? What To Do When Life Moves On
September 12, 2017 by
If I read a book I turn the page. That’s how it works with book reading. Turn the page, then another and another until there’s no more pages. Call that story a page turner. A life plan when life moves on without you feels the same. Maybe you didn’t turn the page, but […]
ON WRITING WELL, pt. 2
November 16, 2015 by
Have you told others you’re a writer? What do they say? My first book set was Zane Grey. Every birthday and Christmas I got a box from Grandma with a book. They went unread then and still are. Never a fan of the fake Western, the books came into play as reading material for my […]
BOOMER FAMILY AND PAT CONROY
May 13, 2015 by
If The Great Santini Couldn’t Break His Family, What Broke Your Boomer Family? The author Pat Conroy, one year older than the first baby boomer, had a traumatic childhood by most accounts. He’s a good boomer spokesman for the voiceless masses who wonder why things go wrong. Call him a senior boomer. He mined his […]
Powell’s Books, Phillip Margolin, And Worthy Brown’s Daughter
January 23, 2014 by
Listen to a man say he writes but only took one college writing class. He admits to grinding out a C+, then says he’d like to talk to an MFA fiction expert one day to learn how writing really works. The same man tried writing historical fiction for thirty years. He took one history class. If the main question of history is, […]
Pat Conroy’s Nobel Prize
October 24, 2013 by
It hasn’t happened yet, but BoomerPDX predicts it For Pat Conroy. The name Santini means one thing: Pat Conroy. And he might come to your town. Maybe not your own town, but lots of them on this version of Book Tour. If you’ve seen Mr. Conroy’s reading/signing, tell boomerpdx how it went. Most authors do […]
