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Misuse of Terminology

Posted on March 23, 2018 by Tonette Joyce

After busy months of becoming a freshman in high school in a new town, my grandson finally got back into his reading groove and back to having me reading a series with him. After the mostly tame and always ‘bad-guys-become-good’ … Continue reading →

Posted in authors, book review, Books, characters, dystopian worlds, imagination, Miscellaneous, phrases, reading, reading preferences, Tonette Joyce, traditions, villains, writing | Tagged Anna Karenina, Artemis Fowl, Demons, Harry Potter, Leo Tolstoy, Midgrade books, mythological creatures, Percy Jackson, Septimus Heap, speed-reading, Taran Matharu, The Battlemage, The Inquisition, The Novice, The Summoner Trilogy, War and Peace, Woody Allen quote, YA books | 10 Comments

Double Vision

Posted on May 22, 2015 by Tonette Joyce

No, not crossed eyes…two people’s visions! This week’s topic of what we read with our loved ones really strikes a chord with me. I was read to quite a bit when I was little, so my mother and aunt chose … Continue reading →

Posted in authors, book review, Books, childhood, Family, favorite books, inspiration, Random thoughts, reading preferences, romance, Tonette Joyce, writing | Tagged Agatha Christie, Artemis Fowl, Beowolf, Betsy the Vampire Queen, book series, Harry Potter, Hercule Poirot, Lilies of the Field, Little Pear, Nancy Drew, Newberry Award Winners, Norman Mailer, Nurse Cherry Ames, Romance Novels, Stephanie Plum, The Chronicles of Egg, The Hobbit, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, The Naked and the Dead, The Necklace, the Puzzle Lady, The Westing Game, Thomas the Ship's Cat, Walk Two Moons | 7 Comments

Good Books,Good Movies?

Posted on May 15, 2015 by Tonette Joyce

This week’s question is: What books do we think would make good movies? That is harder to answer than I first thought. There is usually a great deal of change between book and getting it to the screen. In some … Continue reading →

Posted in authors, Books, movies, protagonists, Random thoughts, reading preferences, Tonette Joyce, writing | Tagged "There's No Place Like Here", "Where Rainbows End", Artemis Fowl, Cecilia Ahern, Davis Way series, Eoin Colfer, Eugene O'Neill, Forrest Gump, Geoff Rodkey, Getchen Archer, Ghost Girl, Harry Potter, If you could see me now, Italian Kitchen series, Janet Evanovich, Katherine Heigl, Lilies of the Field, One For the Money, P.S. I Love You, Rachel Joyce, Rachel Joyce's 'Perfect', Rosie Dunne, Rosie Genova, Standards and Practices, Stange Interlude, Stephen Vincent Benet, The Bishop's Beggar, The Chronicles of Egg, The Hayes Office, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Frye, Tonya Hurley | 4 Comments

List-Ten

Posted on October 3, 2014 by Tonette Joyce

I am usually left out of many of the Facebook writer’s challenges because although I am a published writer, I am not a published book author. However, a rather famous author of my personal acquaintance recently hit me topic: Ten … Continue reading →

Posted in authors, Books, childhood, Friendship, Lists, Miscellaneous, poetry, Random thoughts, Tonette Joyce, writing | Tagged "There's No Place Like Here", A Remarkable Mother, Agatha Christie, An Hour Before Daylight, Anna Karenina, Artemis Fowl, Banned in the U.S.S. R., Boris Pasternak, Boris Pasternak's poetry, Can You See Me Now?, Cecelia Ahearn, Christmas In Plains, Daphne du Maurier, Doctor Zhivago, douglas adams, Dr, Eoin Colfer, Ernest Hemingway, Ghost Girl, Gretchen Archer, Hercule Poirot, James Herriot. All Creatures Great and Small, Janet Evanovich, Jimmy Carter, Kate Collins, Leo Tolstoy, MaryJanice Davidson, Oscar Wilde, Parnell Hall, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rosie Dunne, Stephen King., Stephen Vincent Benet, Thanks For the Memories, The Bishop's Beggar, the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, The Importance of Being Earnest, Tonya Hurley, War and Peace, William Shakespeare | 9 Comments

Overbooked

Posted on September 26, 2014 by Tonette Joyce

Free Week and I meant to have a guest, but an author I asked had a lot of commitments, so she asked me to check back with her, but…guess whose mind got pre-occupied? Very occupied, not just my mind, but … Continue reading →