You’ve heard the phrase, “trash in, trash out,” and you know it’s true. A writer is only as good as what she reads. If you read junk, you’re going to write junk. So fess up. What are you reading, right now?

My calendar-year bibliography to date:

The Mother of the Reformation by Ernst Kroker

Streams to the River, River to the Sea by Scott O’Dell

I Married You by Walter Trobisch

LadyLike by Rebekah Curtis and Rose Adle

Evening in the Palace of Reason by James R. Gaines

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

The Sentinels of Andersonville by Tracy Groot

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

Unplanned by Abby Johnson with Cindy Lambert

The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee by Marja Mills

The Book of Jeremiah

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim

The Choir Immortal by Katie Schuermann (Yep, I did. You should, too.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(I could hang out with Mrs. Wilkins all day. In fact, I did.)