A New Author to Love

Sara Lewis! I love her writing. Of course I have only read one book-- The Answer is Yes but I can tell already she will be one of those authors that I will want to read all of her works. My book club met today and we had the fantastic pleasure of having a phone call from Sara during our meeting. She was delightful on the phone.

She answered our many and varied questions about the book. No it is not autobiographical, and she is not adopted. Her characters are realistic and charming, and the powerful positive message within the book has touched me. It reminds me of a pasta place I used to visit with my husband in Virgina. "Pete's Positive Pasta and Pizzeria" It was a cheery place with huge servings and friendly staff. I mean we all have a choice to greet each day and be the better for it or not. We can choose to miserable or not.

Anyway the book is great. It follows the main character Jenny who is at a crossroads in her life, and by circumstance, or perhaps by being quiet enough to allow the natural rhythm of life to occur she finds her inner self. Along the way she meets delightful characters all rich in their own way. The book reads beautifully. It is as if she Jenny is a friend just chatting with you on the phone. I am going to go check out her other books as soon as possible. Also her website is great and the blog too. Check them out.
http://intuitivewriting.blogspot.com/

And... she has 3 other novels waiting to be published, so come on you people in the industry... We need Sara Lewis' books!

AAAARGHGHH!

Technology! I love it and I curse it. At least if you set down a piece of paper you have written on it doesn't just evaporate into the netherworld. Anyway, I just hit the wrong button, and my last blog entry disappeared.... where did it go? I imagine it there are many words and letters jumbled around in cyberspace lost.

Anyway I was blogging that I didn't have as much time to blog now that school has started again. Figures, but I love to write so I suppose I will just have to make time. My students are blogging on the blog I set up fro the media center. BUT... the comments are so inane! "6th grade is so coooooll!" or "i just love it here i think...." AARRGH. I know the younger generation is all hip with the online speak, but come on. You have to capitalize the pronoun I. I find it impossible to hit the approve button for these posts with terrible grammar. So----- I edit them. I do. I go in and add capitalization and periods. I leave the other errors that don't bug me so much.

And then I have this moral dilemma. What do you think? Should I edit the posts? I don't want garbled gook to be out their for a world audience. They will think our students are pathetic.
I would love to hear some feedback on this issue. So let me know what you think.