"If you haven't surprised
     yourself, you haven't
     written."
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 Welcome!

Joyce McDonald is the author of several critically
acclaimed books including Swallowing Stones,
an ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults and
Edgar Award Nominee, Shades of Simon Gray.
Her latest novel, Devil on My Heels was nominated
for five state awards

Like most writers, Joyce McDonald loves to read.
She's been an avid reader all her life and can't
imagine a day not spent, at least for a brief time,
lost in the pages of another world, walking in the
shoes of another person, experiencing what can
only be felt through prose and poetry.

From time to time she will share some of her favorite books and stories on this site, along with occasional commentary.

 

 

 

 
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July 2010

"Reading is not 'interactive,' with a set of rules or options, as games are; reading is actual collaboration with the writer's mind. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

What I'm reading:

Thirteen Moon by Charles Frazier

Recent books I enjoyed:

FICTION

Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
Eli the Good by Silas House

Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout
Bel Canto,
by Ann Patchett
Digging to American,
by Anne Tyler Remember Love: Stories, by Jody
     Lisberger
The Girl from Charnelle, by K. L. Cook Brass Ankle Blues, by Rachel Harper
The Road
, by Cormack McCarthy
The Laws of Evening, by Mary Yukari
     Waters
 The White Darkness, by Geraldine
     McCaughrean
Chains, by Laurie Halse Anderson Runaway, by Alice Munroe
A Mercy
, by Toni Morrison

POETRY

Late Wife, by Claudia Emerson
Seed Across Snow,
by Kathleen Driskell Strong Is Your Hold, by Galway Kinnell

Gleanings, by Vivian Shipley
Between Angels, by Stephen Dunn

Song, by Brigit Pegeen Kelly
News of Home, by Debra Kang Dean
Fire to Fire,
by Mark Doty
Line Dancing, by Barbara Crooker Passing Through: The Later Poems,
     by Stanley Kunitz
A Revisionist's Dream, by Renee Ashley

NONFICTION

French Dirt by Richard Goodman
Telling Time: Angels, Ancestors, and Stories
(Essays on Writing), by Nancy
     Willard
The Gift,
by Lewis Hyde

 

 


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