by Annette | Jun 2, 2014 | Annette's Blog
If you’re a writer struggling with plot, read Gillian Flynn’s novel Gone Girl. You will be inspired! Flynn knows how to hook the reader, lead her down the garden path, only to reveal that all the assumptions she has made so far are false. Flynn’s...
by Annette | May 25, 2014 | Annette's Blog
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green is a brilliant, funny, tragic story about a couple of dying teenagers with cancer. What? you’re probably thinking. I wouldn’t go near that kind of book with a ten foot pole. Who wants to be depressed? Who wants to...
by Annette | Apr 7, 2014 | Annette's Blog
The War on Wolves This winter, my husband, Michael Sather, and I saw three wolves cross the frozen lake in front of our cabin in the Cariboo. It was one of those special moments when time stands still, when you are grateful to witness something rare and beautiful. ...
by Annette | Jul 5, 2013 | Annette's Blog
Ed King by David Guterson is a deliciously clever and brilliant page-turner that impressed me with its sheer audaciousness. Guterson is a superb storyteller who will hook you almost from the start and deliver surprise after surprise as his characters head for...
by Annette | Jun 9, 2013 | Annette's Blog
Signs and Wonders, Alix Ohlin’s collection of short stories, is a beautiful book. Ohlin makes the art of writing short stories seem like a cakewalk. Her writing appears effortless; her choice of wording so perfect that you think to yourself ‘of course that’s the...
