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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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The Books I’m Actually Going to Read

5 Comments / Reading, Ruminating / April 12, 2026 / book buying, book collecting, BookBub, BookFunnel, books, bookworm problems, CaLibre, digital clutter, ebook library, ebooks, Kindle, library management, readers, reading culture, reading goals, reading habits, reading life, sustainable reading, TBR pile, Tracy Cooper-Posey, unread books / 4 minutes of reading

I’ve stopped collecting books for the person I imagine I might become someday. No one can read everything anymore—not with thousands of new books appearing every day and old books never truly disappearing. So I’m changing the way I build my library: only the books I want to read now, or very soon. No more guilt-inducing digital hoards. Just books that are actually mine because I’ve read them.

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What’s the Strangest Thing You’ve Ever Found Inside A Book?

Uncategorized / February 19, 2018 / books, mysterious objects / 1 minute of reading

Atlas Obscura recently posted about strange things found inside books. What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever found? I have found other people’s homework notes, letters and strange bookmarks. Dead bugs. Pressed flowers — especially those I’ve pressed myself and forgotten about. (And my, they bring back memories!) I think the strangest thing I’ve ever found

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What I’m Reading – January 18th, 2015

Reader Resources / January 18, 2015 / books, health / 2 minutes of reading

It’s January, that classic month of deprivation and do-over, when we all try to recover from a month of horrid over-indulgence and excess. Given that, it’s probably no surprise that all my reading this month is health focused. An Easy Guide to Meditation Amazon Link Surprise! It’s not a diet book. J This year I’m

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What I’m Reading – July 14, 2014

4 Comments / Reader Resources / July 14, 2014 / books, George R.R. Martin, Stephen King / 2 minutes of reading

The Stand by Stephen King I’m still having a mad fling with fiction, but the number of books I’ve read have sharply declined for two reasons. The first is that we’ve (finally) started renovating, and that is eating up humungous amounts of time, both spare and not-so-spare. I’ll be writing more about that in another

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What I’m Reading – June 14, 2014

Reader Resources / June 14, 2014 / books, fiction, non-fiction / 3 minutes of reading

Oh, I’ve been having so much fun with my reading, lately. Fiction. Tons of it. I’ve been wallowing in stories. Weeah! Getting Things Done David Allen And right out of the gate, I’m a big fat liar. This is non-fiction. But considering that the vast majority of what I usually read is non-fiction, how-tos and

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What I’m Reading – May 16, 2014

Reader Resources / May 16, 2014 / books, fiction, non-fiction / 3 minutes of reading

I’m right into the thick of plotting and building a really big novel. Consequently, there are a lot of non-fiction research titles plugging up my readers. Let’s see: A Brief History of the Vikings: The Last Pagans or the First Modern Europeans? Jonathan Clements This is a great book for research, because it skims over

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4 Ways to Whittle Your TBR Pile Down FAST!

Reader Resources / April 21, 2014 / books, ereading, reading, time / 3 minutes of reading

Finding time to read doesn’t sound like it should be a major issue. You read when you get time, right? It’s supposed to be a pleasureable past time, so you’ll do it when you can and enjoy the moments. But if you’ve got a huge backlog of books you want to read (or worse, sitting

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What I’m Reading – March 15, 2013

Reader Resources / March 21, 2014 / books, reading / 2 minutes of reading

Oh, I’m so scrapped for reading time right now, it’s embarrassing. I had lunch with another author yesterday and she asked me what I was reading right now. I couldn’t think of a single title! I get to read maybe a screen’s worth before I fall asleep at night. But let’s see what I’ve got

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What I’m Reading – July 15

Reader Resources / July 15, 2013 / author, award-winning author, books, Erotic Romances, erotic romantic suspense, erotica, hot erotic romance, Indie Author, Ménage à Trois, MMF, MMF romance, Paranormal Romance, reading, romance, romance novel, romance novels, Romantic Suspense, time travel, time travel romance, Tracy Cooper-Posey, urban fantasy romance, vampire romance, vampire series, Vampires / 2 minutes of reading

If anyone dares mention “light summer reading” around me, I tend to boil. However, if it is going to encourage reading at all, have at it. It’s July. Vacation time. I’m working my ass off for the September releases, so a vacation is out of the question for me. So is a lot of light

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