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Monday Review: Me Before You

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes Review… Summary: This is another book in the quad-wants-to-die category, which tends to get me worked up. I’m waiting for a book where the quadriplegic doesn’t want to find a way to finish himself off. The quads I’ve known in real life were grateful to be alive and very appreciative of life, having come so close to losing it. Anyway, the story is that Lou, a charming young woman with a quirky sense of style, gets hired to be the carer for a quadriplegic man even though she has no experience at all. It turns out that she was hired more because of her cheery nature in the hopes that she will help bring him out of depression. Though the subject matter is heavy, it is a chick-lit style book. I was very surprised to...

Inspiration Collage

One of my favorite blogs, A Writer’s Journey, is doing a fun blog hop today about inspiration boards. I have just recently started trying this out by making Pinterest boards for the books I’m working on and gathering images there that inspire me in the story. Today I’m giving you the link to the board I’ve made for Parallel Loves, a science fiction romance that I’ve been working on for a while now… http://pinterest.com/ruthmadison/inspiration-board-parallel-loves/ I have a rough draft finished and I’ve been working on revisions for months now. I have high hopes for this story, I think it will be my best work to date by far. If you’d like to be notified when it comes out, sign up on the right for my email newsletter....

Monday Book Review: A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeline L’Engle

A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Madeleine L’Engle’s Time Quintet) Review… Summary: This is not a romance and there isn’t much in the way of a love plot, but it does feature a touching love triangle with a character who I fell deeply in love with as a teenager. Madeline L’Engle writes young adult and children’s books, but does so in a way that doesn’t talk down to children, which makes them wonderful books at any age. The plot of A Swiftly Tilting Planet involves Charles Wallace (from A Wrinkle In Time, now 16) going back through history, inhabiting various lives that connect to Meg’s mother-in-law, who happens to be related to a terrorist threatening them. Charles Wallace is charged with subtly changing the flow of those...