Book Descriptions

I've been reading (well, skimming) Joyce Saricks' Reader's Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction and am inspired to suggest that we use her 4 "elements of appeal" in describing our books. These are pacing, characterization, story line and frame. Frame is physical setting and atmosphere. Also, if we can, mention the kind of reader it might appeal to. And for the blog, at least, we should keep it short. Pat's review on this blog seems like about the right length. What do you think?

10 Years Already

What a great time we had at our 10 year anniversary celebration! The author readings were all intriguing and my list of books to read has suddenly grown a lot longer. We will be discussing books by these authors at our next meeting. They include Giles Blunt, Lisa Moore, Dennis Bock, Bill Gaston, Patricia Young and Nell Freudenberger. Lots of variety here so it should be an interesting discussion.

Lunch at the Bridge followed and it was great to catch up. Looking forward to the next 10!