BOOK REVIEW – Inkling

by Kenneth Oppel (Author), Robbie Daymond (Narrator), Listening Library (Publisher) An Audiobook Review INKLING, by Kenneth Oppel, is a very creative, exciting, and touching story about a … okay, you guessed it, a spot, or splot, of ink.  But how can you make a story out of that?  Oppel does it very well, just as in his wonderful space odysseys. He…

BOOK REVIEW – Locked in Pursuit: Electra McDonnell, Book 4

by Ashley Weaver (Author), Alison Larkin (Narrator), Dreamscape Media (Publisher) An Audiobook review Ashley Weaver‘s fourth Electra McDonnell mystery continues the espionage story set in London during WWII. It features the handsome Major Gabriel Ramsey and the wily, beautiful ex-cat burglar “Ellie” McDonnell.  They always seem to defy capture and win the day, except “the day” is not over, and…

2024 Personal Essay Writing Challenge: Day 1

Write a personal essay each day of the final week of June with the 2024 Personal Essay Challenge.  For today’s prompt, write about a work experience. Knickknack, Paddy-whack, Give a Dog a Bone Very early on, when I was nine or ten, I became the chief knickknack duster of our home. My mother, a widow, worked…

BOOK REVIEW – Daddy-Long-Legs

By Jean Webster (Author), Jo Karabasz (Narrator), SAGA Egmont (Publisher) An Audiobook Review Such a sweet story! It is simply chapters of letters that orphan Judy Abbot writes to her unnamed benefactor, who found her in an orphanage and paid for her college education after reading a simple humorous short story she wrote. The only stipulation was that she write…

2024 April PAD Challenge: Day 2 and 3

This is the 17th annual April Poem-A-Day Challenge on Writer’s Digest.  I’m posting on two days’ prompts today because the website was not working yesterday! Seriously!!  Day 2 — The FIRST is a two-for-Tuesday prompt, which means I get two prompts. I can write a poem for one prompt, a poem for each prompt, or one…