by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Oct 7, 2011 | Reading, Waiting
Your social life. Sitting in front of a computer dealing with imaginary people can feel incredibly rich, but it doesn’t get you out of the house much. Your, ahem, backside. Again, sitting in front of a computer does little to enhance your physique. I expected...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Sep 30, 2011 | Reading
I participated in a “Worst Storyline Ever” contest yesterday. It got me thinking about bad books I’ve read. Now, I won’t get into specifics because I don’t want to upset anyone. I may hate a book you love. And hey, if an author got a...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Sep 28, 2011 | Reading
An agent whose blog I follow recently posted on the importance of titles. Writers are often told not to get too attached to their working title since publishers are likely to change it. Some writers take that as a reason to not bother much about the title, which is a...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Sep 23, 2011 | Miracles, Nature, Reading
I saw my first wooly worm on Wednesday. I was walking Thistle and she wanted to examine it pretty closely, so we stopped to consider it. I can report that he had four black rings on his nose, a brown middle and two black rings on his tail. That’s four weeks of...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Sep 21, 2011 | Reading
Normally I don’t write about a book until I finish it, but I LOVE The Frontiersman’s Daughter by Laura Frantz. It’s been a while since I found a book that kept me soaking in the bath until my toes turned to prunes. Or one that makes my husband roll...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Sep 12, 2011 | Reading, Waiting
In my Sunday School class we’re reading and discussing a book by Allison Pittman called, “Saturdays with Stella.” When Allison began taking her dog to obedience classes, she realized that most of what she was trying to teach her dog was the same...
