I Give You Books

I have something here beside me that I'm wanting to give away. Two somethings, actually; two new copies of the book Listening to the Page by Alan Cheuse.
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I have to be honest, I haven't yet read my own copy, so I can't say whether it's entirely grand or something opposite. We'll have to read it together to find out.
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But Cheuse is an esteemed author and NPR celebrity, who wrote this collection of essays about both writing and reading. It isn't a how-to, no, but rather a compilation of one writer's observations. Sounds intriguing, I think.
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Check out his author's site, linked above. If the book (in paperback) is something you think you'd like, leave me a comment. At end of day Sunday -- let's say 7 p.m. CST -- I'll place everyone's names in a hat, something sassy and fierce, and ask my husband to draw randomly, twice.
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Results will be announced Monday. See you then, winners' names in my pocket.
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Have a great weekend!

Stranded

My car refused to go, and so I sat, neighbor to barb-wire and a broken-down barn on a rural highway, waiting for rescue.

I was kicking myself for not grabbing that paperback I passed before leaving home. It's a new author, a new voice; it could have been research, a passing of the time.

Kicking myself, wishing I'd taken my laptop - if I'd only known - since I'd had to up and go, mid-zone. I'd left my WIP hanging. We could have been hanging together.

So I sat there, waiting to be claimed. Wishing this and wishing that, but getting none of it.

Have you ever been stranded? For what did you wish?

A Teaser

On April 14th I'll be posting a book review here at Something She Wrote. The book in question? It's The Fiction Class by Susan Breen.

Did I like it? Will I deem it a great new classic all voracious readers should pore over? Or did I find it unsatisfactory, tossing the paperback from the window of a moving vehicle? Somewhere in between?

Come back this Monday and find out!