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  1. Good Advice For New Book Bloggers: Need suggestions please?

    5/12/12 4:36pm by ewillse
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    I've blogged about books since 2008. Largely, I'll admit, by the seat of my pants, figuring it out as I go along, and exploring the community of book bloggers. A dear friend came to me for advice about starting her own book blog. I could use some help and recommendations: What book bloggers do you think get it right? Any great posts that capture the best a book blog can be? Any other thoughts on what makes a book blog good? Favorites you like to read? - Ewww.elizabethwillse.com/blogFreelance Writer and Book Reviewer  Read more >

  2. Finally, a writing challenge that might work for me

    11/1/11 5:27am by ewillse
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    Every year, hundreds, maybe thousands, of writers hunch over their keyboards in November, trying to churn out 50,000 words of a reasonably complete novel.In solidarity, I start looking around for a writing project, even, in desperation, eying old novel drafts. Sometimes, I try to figure out how poetry might be adapted to churning out words for quantity, not quality. The closest I came was trying to write a poem a day. I've fallen off the poetry wagon in recent years.  Read more >

  3. Happy Halloween: Spooky Books Written By Women

    10/31/11 9:08am by ewillse
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    Last week, the folks at Women's Voices For Changeasked me to write a book review roundup of the best spooky stories out there, written by women.While I was working on it, I realized a few things:I have read a lot more very scary books written by men, than I have women. (The Dead Path still gives me the shivers, ages after I read it.)  Read more >

  4. Love At First Bark: It's a Dog's Life

    10/26/11 10:27am by ewillse
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    In this slim volume, Klam tells the story of some of the dogs she has loved. She is a big-hearted dog rescuer living in New York city. And in each chapter, she introduces a dog she has loved. Klam shares her apartment with three, sometimes four dogs. Her heart goes out to dogs with special needs, desperate cases that might not find a home somewhere else. A trip to New Orleans with her husband was, in large part, a mission to help rescue a feral dog with a jar stuck on its head. (They ate beignets and heard music in the city too, but the trip was largely about the dog.)  Read more >

  5. Counting Down to Dewey's Read-a-Thon

    10/20/11 3:00pm by ewillse
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    I think I know what I'm going to read.I have my snacks in order. All year, Dad and I have been reading to raise money for the New York Public Library.   Read more >

  6. Book List for Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon

    10/5/11 7:12am by ewillse
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    Autumn is my favorite season in general: football, pumpkins, chilly weather for wearing socks and sweaters. And two things I've been looking forward to happen in October: Dewey's Read-a-Thonand Halloween. I have no idea what I'll dress as this Halloween, but I am starting to assemble my book list.  Read more >

  7. I read The Hunger Games in 2 days.

    10/2/11 5:37am by ewillse
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    I started reading The Hunger Games yesterday morning. And read, and read, and read.Shook myself free of the book to do what was necessary. Phone calls, quick conversations with people. Lunch.I got my to-do list done. And then I read some more.  Read more >

  8. Finally reading A Discovery Of Witches. And loving it!

    9/29/11 6:13pm by ewillse
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     A Discovery of WitchesDeborah Harkness  Read more >

  9. Kabul Beauty School: Book Review

    9/28/11 12:08pm by ewillse
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    Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil by Deborah Rodriguez, 2007, 328 pages  When Deborah Rodriguez, a brash, outspoken hairdresser, joins a mission to volunteer in Afghanistan, she isn't sure what she can offer, alongside doctors and real aid worke  Read more >

  10. Book Reviewing on a Kindle

    9/28/11 9:36am by ewillse
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    Kindle reader

    After lots of "research" (also known as dithering), I decided to get a Kindle about a month ago. I never thought I'd be this hooked on it. It is good for many things:  Read more >

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Vassar College, Baruch College

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I'm a freelance writer, looking for new writing gigs, budding foodie, trivia fan, city girl, blogger, editor

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