My true love: “Red, White and Royal Blue.”
For the last good while I’ve been low-key obsessed with the novel “Red, White and Royal Blue.” It’s about an alternate timeline where the 2016 election was won by a woman (Ellen Claremont) from...
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Cactus Pryor; Prophet or Just Full of Common Sense?
I’m pleased to present another offering from Austin writer Teresa Kohl! Bad habits sometimes lead us to unexpected benefits. One particular bad habit of mine is cruising into Half Price Books to examine the...
I’d forgotten all about this Wizard of Oz poster from Latvia
I just stumbled over this poster of a Wizard of Oz-ish theatrical production in Latvia in my photo library. It’s kind of awesome, considering that I read and re-read all the Wizard of Oz...
Austin Public Library Branch Offering Mystery Book Dates!
It often seems that the way we celebrate Valentine’s Day in this country is all about making single people feel bad and getting couples to spend money on each...
Book Club: Why it’s Easy to Fall in Love via Letters.
Late in January my book club at Southwestern University had possibility the most sprinted book club discussion I’ve ever witnessed. The book we were discussing was The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie...
Books: The President is a Sick Man
I really couldn’t have picked a worse book to keep me company as I stayed up late with the ouchy results of some long-dreaded dental work. It wasn’t that the book was bad, it’s...
Reading the Book “One Day” Moments Before the Movie Came Out!
On my way back to Austin from my summer adventures, I read the novel One Day by David Nicholls. I read it in pretty much one giant gulp. While I had toyed with the...
Romance Readers Social….at the University Hills Library
Bad timing and helping my friend Byron move at the last moment killed this post for Austinist…but if the people in it ever Google themselves, they might see this! Maybe…. Valentine’s Day is a...
The hot, red-headed Scotsman I loved, then returned
Call me delusional. I went looking for a fictional character in the real world and found him. It was the unlikely culmination of a torrid affair I conducted right under my husband’s nose. He...
