TFJ
My blogs
| Introduction | How many books does a first-grader in 1964 have to read to be first to “reach the moon?” 210 books; that’s the number I read to be the number 1 reader, averaging five books a week if you figure a 40-week school year. My current number? About 5-8 books a week, depending on the number of income opportunities (sounds better than job searching, right?) I’m exploring. Fast forward to this past July, I attended the 17th Annual Mystery Writers Conference hosted by Book Passage, the Bay Area’s Liveliest Bookstore, and discovered (as I really always knew) I’m a reader first and writer, aka reviewer, second. First book I reviewed and then recommended: Harriet the Spy; I was 9 years old. Apropos of nothing, my second grade teacher, Dolores Hitchens (a mystery writer herself), played “Secret Agent Man” while we solved math problems on the chalkboard. I didn’t get around to reading her books until about 20 years after her death, but would still recommend them to anyone interested in pitch-perfect setting and conversation of 1950s Southern California … martini, anyone? |
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| Interests | Books (old-school), hand-made books, READING, mysteries, reading and comprehending, LIBRARIES, books, paper, READING, thrillers, book-related quotations, LIBRARIANS (especially ones of the male, tall, dark, humorous variety with a dash of lumberjack thrown in) |