Weekly Drawing

It's Fun Friday at The Borrowed Book! (We're making changes! Please read the revised rules and note the when we will announce the winner.) To enter:   Leave the time it took you to complete the puzzle in the comments section as well as your email address for notifying you if you've won. Winners will be drawn from ALL of the times, so the person with the fastest...

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An Interview With Linda Glaz

1) Have you always wanted to be an author? If not, what made you decide to write, and how long have you been at it?  I started writing really horrible stuff in eighth grade. Fortunately God fine-tuned me. Hopefully the work is better now. I’ve been actively writing for 21 years, took the craft serious for about 6 years (that’s when I realized you needed to write...

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Did You Know? ~ The Great New York City Blizzard of 1888

I know it’s August. We’re still running our air conditioners. Picking cucumbers from the garden. The locusts are buzzing and spiders feasting on moths around the outside lights. The kids are just now returning to school. So who’s even thinking about winter, let alone snow storms? Yes, that would be me. I just finished a book called “Blizzard” by Jim Murphy. It’s a children’s book, published by Scholastic, but contains a wealth of information...

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Reinventing Yourself at 60! by Author Linda Glaz

Writing for nineteen years without publication can be a daunting and discouraging thing, but who knows what might be right around the corner? If I had quit. Had given up. Had become so discouraged that I finally said, “Enough!” I would have missed out on the greatest changes in my life. At fifty-nine I finally met my agent, Terry Burns, and began in earnest to get my...

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YA Book Review ~ The Silent Swan

About the Book "Once upon a time – better known as 'now' - Gabriel Pritz reigns as king of his high school. Easy grades, perfect baseball season, a pretty date for prom—he's coasting into a golden future. Until his parents demand he cook dinner once a week. Caught between kitchen fires and ballpark withdrawal, Gabe is thrown into Tam Swann's orbit. Hostile, friendless,...

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Winners!!

Good morning, BB fans! Thanks to everyone who participated in our "puzzling" Friday giveaway! Keep all those facebook and Twitter notifications, coming! This week's winner is: Pam K (pmk56[at]sbcglobal[dot]net) - On Distant Shores by Sarah Sundin Congratulations, Pam K! Thank you all so much for stopping by The Borrowed Book....

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Sunday Devotional: Pi and the Unity of Believers

The area of a circle is pi times the radius, squared. This is read, while written in mathematical notation, “Pi R squared,” which then leads to the old joke, “Pie are not squared; pie are round!” While helping my daughter with her math this week, the joke kept coming to mind, which then led to musings about the simple ways we often misconstrue what people say—as if people of the same ethnicity were speaking a different language from each other....

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Weekly Drawing

It's Fun Friday at The Borrowed Book! (We're making changes! Please read the revised rules and note the when we will announce the winner.)   To enter: Leave the time it took you to complete the puzzle in the comments section as well as your email address for notifying you if you've won. Winners will be drawn from ALL of the times, so the person with the fastest time may not be the actual winner, but by leaving your time, you double...

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An Interview With Sarah Sundin

     Q.  Have you always wanted to be an author? If not, what made you decide to write, and how long have you been at it? A. As a girl, I did dream of being an author, but I also wanted to be a ballerina and a protozoologist. Yes, that’s strange. I followed my love of science, majored in chemistry, and became a pharmacist. When my oldest son was...

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Did You Know? ~ Olive Oatman, the Tattoed Woman

Recently I watched part of a western show on television that featured a woman who had been enslaved by Indians when she was young. The Indians had tattooed her chin with blue cactus ink, making her an object of scorn in the eyes of the white people once she was freed. The woman in the show became a harlot to survive. My curiosity kicked in, as usual. (My husband is always amazed at my seemingly unending need to ferret out information...

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Writing: More than Skin Deep by Author Sarah Sundin

My favorite part of writing is getting to know my characters. Although I was a chemistry major in college, I took quite a few psychology classes for fun. As a student, I loved contemplating the interplay of nature and nurture and life experiences, and as an author, I love it even more. In my latest novel, On Distant Shores, I had great fun writing from the point-of-view...

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Historical Romance Book Spotlight ~ On Distant Shores

About the Book (from Revell) "Caught between the war raging around them and the battles within, two souls long for peace--and a love that remains true. Lt. Georgiana Taylor has everything she could want. A boyfriend back home, a loving family, and a challenging job as a flight nurse. But in July 1943, Georgie's cozy life gets more complicated when she meets pharmacist...

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