by Jamie Chavez | May 7, 2018 | Books You Might Like, Words & Language
Gosh, I love a good word. I love one as much now as I did when I was nine and learned the meaning of the word intercourse. (It means the connection or dealings between persons or groups, or an exchange, a discussion, especially of thoughts or feelings. Of course.) I...
by Jamie Chavez | Apr 2, 2018 | Books You Might Like
Why, yes—I am still “reading light.” Or lite. As you wish. This seems to include a lot of romance—though don’t make assumptions when you read that word. Romance is a wide, wide category. And a popular one. So popular, in fact, that the Washington Post devotes a...
by Jamie Chavez | Mar 5, 2018 | Authors & Other Writers, Books You Might Like
I read a lot of great books last year, as you know. It’s interesting to look at my list from each year; I can see things like what I was working (editing) on and also things that were troubling me, or how stressed I was. Just a little review of my life, you know? And...
by Jamie Chavez | Feb 27, 2018 | Books You Might Like
There was no school between Christmas and New Year’s. Victoria Roubideaux stayed out in the country in the old house back off the county road with the McPheron brothers, and the days seemed slow. The ground was covered in thin dirty patches of ice and the weather...
by Jamie Chavez | Jun 8, 2017 | Books You Might Like
And though the deal was a windfall for [the company] and again made Anders a darling, it also gave him a belly of stress weight and a susceptibility to relentless bloody noses. He made a habit of riding home in the bar car and mauling a can of beer nuts and then...
