book review: deliver me from evil
Ever since I was a little girl, I would stay up late reading. Fiction was always my favorite. As I read the words on the page, I slowly left the world I was living in and become a part of the story I was reading. The characters became real to me – my new friends, [...]
[book review] the muir house: a novel
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I’ve had the pleasure of reading Mary DeMuth’s work in the past, but only her memoir, Thin Places, which I found soul-bare in its honesty and strikingly poignant in its delivery. I hadn’t yet been exposed to Mary’s fiction before reading The Muir House. This novel tells the story of Willa Muir’s search to define [...]
on storytelling [an interview with @marydemuth]
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Like many other bloggers, I’m still learning the art of telling great stories. And like many bloggers, my heart is to connect with other people online. I know that I have a story to tell, but what are the most important things for me to consider as I begin to share it? In the last [...]
about the muir house characters [an interview with @marydemuth]
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One of the most crucial parts of any novel is how the characters develop. In part two of my interview with Mary DeMuth, I ask about how the characters for The Muir House came together. What I found interesting about Mary’s response was how attached she gets to the characters in her stories. It’s easy [...]
about the muir house [an interview with @marydemuth]
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I don’t read nearly enough fiction. There’s just something about good stories that stirs the heart and mind in ways that other reading can’t do. So to know a good storyteller is a true gift. I recently had the opportunity to talk with one of those storytellers. Mary DeMuth is the author of the popular Defiance [...]
book review: scared by tom davis
by Julie Gillies Tom Davis‘ first novel gripped me by the throat and refused to let go. I no longer sat in a comfortable chair in my bedroom merely reading a book; I bumped along in a jeep on dusty clay roads, inhaled sweaty fear, witnessed atrocities that provoked gut-wrenching despair and anger, and grieved [...]
book review: daisy chain by mary demuth
by Julie Gillies Daisy Chain is not an easy read. In fact, several times I literally set the book down and thought, “I cannot read this.” The trauma, tension and turmoil felt almost oppressive. Yet in spite of the heavy subject matters (a missing girl, an abusive husband/father, a woman dying of cancer) or perhaps [...]
