This book has been republished and is now available. Sorry readers! Dear Ms. Bowen: Your books have been one of the highlights of my 2014 reading year. Your character seem so genuine and real and I feel like they are people I would enjoy spending time with and I certainly enjoy ... more >
Dear Ms. Savage: It’s been a while so I’m not sure why I picked this book to read. It could have been selling well on the top 100 list of Amazon or it could have been recommended to me. I can’t recall. This book has stuck with me though. I refer ... more >
Dear Ms. Callihan: Elyssa Patrick told me I’d love this book and she was right. There’s Drew, the loveable quarterback of an unnamed school who has two National Championships and a Heismann under his belt. I tried very hard not to envision Johnny Football during the reading of this because that ... more >
The ravages of BuzzFeed’s Benny Johnson – This story has catalyzed a lot of debate about both the nature of plagiarism and the nature of (largely non-journalistic) Internet reporting. Benny Johnson, a 28-year-old writer for BuzzFeed, who has produced a tremendous amount of quirky content for the site, has been ... more >
Dear R.S. Grey: Maybe it’s timing–a soccer book during the World Cup–but I enjoyed this light hearted romp through the soccer fields and sheets featuring University of Los Angeles freshman soccer recruit Kinsley and her volunteer coach, Liam Wilder of the LA Stars. Some of it was credible, some of it ... more >
JUDGES RELEASE SHERLOCK – Score one for the public domain, as the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has allowed the character of Sherlock Holmes — in all but the last works — out of copyright jail. What do you think the chances are that the estate will appeal (they have ... more >