Author Archives: arizela

I Am Not a Platform

I’ve been reading a tremendous amount of stuff lately, mostly linked off Google+ and Twitter, about how writers should safeguard and create their platforms, how they should temper their opinions, withdraw from having any meaningful discourse in matters of politics or … Continue reading

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Book Review: The Eve Tree: A Novel by Rachel Devenish Ford

Reading is very subjective, and I’m a self-admittedly harsh critic. I expect just as much or more of the published authors I read as I do from myself, and I’ve found that picking up books in the Kindle free list … Continue reading

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In the (Personal) News

Life has been a little crazy in my house for the last year or so. I lost a sister this time last year, and another moved in with my family and (happily on all accounts) stayed with us a bit … Continue reading

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Book Review: The Diviners

I picked up a pile of free ebooks after the holidays and have been slowly wading through them. Most have been chucked off my TBR pile after a few lines of badly written prose, but there have been a few … Continue reading

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Help a girl out

As an avid reader, nothing seems quite as satisfying as introducing new people to something I love, so I thought, why not give everybody I know that chance? I’ve been reading a bit outside my usual genre lately, and trying to … Continue reading

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