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Gone With the Wind at Ninety: Why It Still Feels Modern

2 Comments / Historical Romance, Historical Stuff, Magic Story Telling, My Favourite Books Ever, Reading / June 28, 2026 / book anniversary, books, character development, classic literature, classic novels, Gone with the Wind, Historical Fiction, historical novels, literary fiction, Margaret Mitchell, point of view, Pulitzer Prize, reading classics, Rhett Butler, Scarlett O'Hara, storytelling, strong heroines, Tracy Cooper-Posey, unreliable narrator, writing craft / 5 minutes of reading

Gone With the Wind turns ninety tomorrow, yet it still feels astonishingly modern. I first encountered the novel—not the famous film—as a teenager borrowing it from my high school library, and it has stayed with me ever since. Looking back at it through the eyes of a novelist, I think I’ve finally figured out why Margaret Mitchell’s epic continues to captivate readers after all these decades.

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Why I Jump Across So Many Romance Sub-Genres

2 Comments / My Books, My Favourite Books Ever, My Life / March 9, 2025 / Alastair MacLean, Cameron Cooper, Desmond Bagley, Neville Shute, Pompeii, Rosemary Sutcliffe), Running Blind, Taylen Carver, The Dark is Rising, The Eagle of the Ninth, The Once and Future King, The Pillars of the Earth / 4 minutes of reading

If you’ve been around my books long enough (and if you haven’t—welcome!), you might have noticed something odd. Unlike many authors who settle into one or maybe two genres and build their empire there, I hop between romance sub-genres like a caffeinated rabbit.

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It’s Tolkien Week

My Favourite Books Ever / September 18, 2018 / Frodo and Bilbo Baggins, Lord of the Rings, Tolkien Week / 2 minutes of reading

It is Tolkien week, this week. September 22nd is Frodo and Bilbo Baggins’ shared birthdays. I’ve always been personally pleased that the 22nd is marked in this way, because Mark and I both have our birthdays on the twenty-second, too. February 22nd, but the date does tend to jump out at me. I don’t usually

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Time Enough For Love

My Favourite Books Ever / October 16, 2016 / Hard Science Fiction, Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love / 2 minutes of reading

If you’ve been reading this blog for very long, then you’re probably already aware that Robert A. Heinlein is up in my top two favourite authors of all time (the other spot has a rotating roster). I’ve spoken about Heinlein and about this particular book, Time Enough for Love, more than once on the blog

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Gone With the Wind

My Favourite Books Ever / October 23, 2015 / Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell / 4 minutes of reading

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell [link] I fell for this story with a loud thunk when I was in my early teens. I remember seeing the cover and that gorgeous white dress of Scarlett’s (from the movie) around the bookstores for years before I actually picked it up. It took matching up “big,

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