Neil Gaiman

Neverwhere and Beyond: The Literate Housewife Discovers Neil Gaiman

Until I made plans to attend the National Book Festival in 2008, I had never heard of Neil Gaiman. Well, that’s not exactly true. Emily, one of the girls’ baby sitters read them The Day I Swapped My Dad for a Goldfish before then, but that doesn’t count because I wasn’t paying attention. Sometimes the [...]

The Sunday Salon My Trip to the National Book Festival!

Yesterday, despite the muggy, slightly drizzly day, I had the most wonderful time at the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. The night before I thanked Target that my latest purse was huge. It hard cover versions of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods and Neverwhere, to hard cover copies of The Other Queen, and paperback versions [...]

BBAW: Best Author Blog Award

Without authors, we’d all be sad sacks longing for something to read. We love all authors and we honored them with their own category. Here are the five most popularly nominated blogging authors” Camy Tang “Camy “writes romance with a kick of wasabi.” Her blog is entitled Camy’s Loft. Colleen Gleason Colleen is a “novelist [...]

Meet Me in D.C.

As my regular readers are well aware, I’m a Philippa Gregory fanatic. To this day, two of my three most viewed posts by far are about reading her Tudor series in chronological order and my thoughts about Anne Boleyn’s rape scene in the film adaptation of The Other Boleyn Girl. When I received her newsletter [...]