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What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Highlands Homecoming (Highlands Christmas Book 3)? Well, it’s book 3 in the series. I needed to wrap things up! But what originally inspired me was that I was in a dark place with the pandemic and everything else going on in the world. I […]
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Yesterday’s Paper (The Knocknashee Story Book 2)? It is book two in a series set during world war 2 involving a friendship between and Irish woman and an American man though letters. If you had to pick theme songs for the main characters of […]
Tell me the book and tell me why I’ll start I’d pick A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. It’s just too graphic and emotionally draining to watch on screen. From what I’ve heard, Yanagihara turned down several offers to adapt it because of the changes people wanted to make, and she felt it needed to […]
Apple Music has teamed up with Assouline, a book publisher based in Paris and London, to sell a $450 book that commemorates Apple Music’s 100 Best Albums of all time. If you haven’t heard of Assouline before, it’s known for its high-end books and other items: Today, through its exceptionally crafted books, home fragrances, and […]
Tom Ford reformulated a few of their lip products for the Lip Color Lipstick ($62 each) + Lip Pencils ($46). It seems a number of items are going through a revamp as it appears the Foundation Stick has been pulled (or not restocked) along with a few other items. I hauled quite a few of […]
My Budget Book is a useful tool for improving one’s financial management because it facilitates the systematic recording of one’s income and expenditures. Use the one-time or repeating transaction features to keep tabs on your funds and plan ahead. The data you collect can also be visualized using interactive graphs and charts. In the budget […]
Last year I started a search for the most Epic fantasy series ever written. A broad interpretation brought a broad list of series, but I decided on Malazan Book of the Fallen becuase it was advertised as super dense, complicated with politics and war, with prose bordering on literature-quality. And boy was that all true. […]
Last weekend, I had the privilege of being part of the line-up at Dublin Book Festival, an annual celebration of all things literary in Ireland’s capital. My event was a discussion of reading the world with Literature Ireland director Sinéad Mac Aodha (pictured with me above), who helped launch Crossing Over at Hodges Figgis last […]
Another title from A Book Apart has been re-released for free. The latest? Tim Brown’s Flexible Typesetting. I may not be the utmost expert on typography and its best practices but I do remember reading this book (it’s still on the shelf next to me!) thinking maybe, just maybe, I might be able to hold […]
I am currently forcing my way through From Blood and Ash by Jennifer Armentrout and the word "crimson" is used far too often and makes me cringe every time. It was in the first paragraph telling me right then I'd made a mistake. It bothers me more than all of the other textbook tropes. It […]