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The Reading Corner Newsletter April 2021 Hello Readers! Hooray! We’re finally in Tucson. The desert air, blooming cacti, and [...]

The Reading Corner Newsletter March 2021 Hello Readers! Not to sound like a broken record, but, yes, we’re still [...]

The Reading Corner Newsletter February 2021 Hello Readers! Still in the rainy Pacific Northwest for the foreseeable future. Makes [...]

The Reading Corner Newsletter January 2021 Happy New Year, Readers! Of all the things that got me through 2020, [...]

The Reading Corner Newsletter December 2020 Greetings December 2020 looks very different this year at the Sweeney-Barclay household. We’re [...]

The Reading Corner Newsletter November 2020 Whew! We made it through the election and aftermath. I’ve been very [...]

The Reading Corner Newsletter October 2020 Hello readers! As we spin deeper into fall, I hope you’re able to [...]

The Reading Corner Newsletter September 2020 Hello readers! We’re inching into fall, although it’s still glorious weather here in [...]

Those Pesky Reviews About those pesky reviews. Reviews are the bane and the joy of every writer’s life, something we [...]

The Reading Corner Newsletter August 2020 Hello again Readers! Reflection: A year ago (seems like 10 years ago now), [...]

Of Composition Notebooks and Number 2 Pencils Three black and white composition notebooks. Three dozen sharpened #2 pencils. Three weeks [...]

The Reading Corner Newsletter July 2020 Hello Readers! Welcome to my first newsletter! I aim to keep you informed [...]

Nineteenth Century Armchair Travel Nonfiction—and especially narrative non-fiction—is the historical novelist’s secret weapon while researching. Well-written narratives take us back [...]

Five Hundred Forty Loaves of Bread In this Time of Coronavirus, there’s been an uptick in reading, puzzle piecing, game [...]

This Not-So-Little Light of Mine You might say I’ve always been a walking poster child of Henry Dixon Loes’s classic [...]

Nine Out of Ten I won’t ever climb Mt. Everest. After reading Jon Krakauer’s “Into Thin Air,” the account of [...]