Category: review
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Bookstore Review: Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, Pa.
Voted the Publisher Weekly’s Bookstore of the Year Today Eva and I visited Midtown Scholar Bookstore in Harrisburg, Pa, the state capital. I am headed to Washington D.C. to meet my friend M with whom I will travel to Dublin later this week. Eva is technically delivering me to D.C.…
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Reflections on My Left Foot
I ended up reading Christy Brown’s My Left Foot this weekend. (The movie stars Daniel Day Lewis. I watched that also.) Christy, born in 1932 as a middle child in an Irish Catholic family of 22 children, had cerebral palsy. The only limb he could control was his left foot— and he even learned to…
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5-star reads from 2025
Let’s take a look at what I read in 2025. According to Goodreads, I read more than 15,500 pages in published books. I say published books because I also read unsolicited submissions for Parisian Phoenix and piles of pages for editing and critique. The shortest book I read was Exactly how I Promote and Sell…
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What I’m reading
Not including manuscripts we are publishing, I finished I’m currently reading I’m currently editing
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A holiday wish for our intern
This semester, I had the joy of working with intern Emily Lichius from Eastern University. Internships are a necessary evil in our society— with young people needing experience and not having opportunities like apprenticeships for tradespeople that offer it. We have a ridiculously expensive educational system that doesn’t really provide much in the way…
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Best Christmas Pageant Ever
On Tuesday, Parisian Phoenix joined other Made in the Lehigh Valley vendors attending the Friends of Pete networking event/holiday party in Fogelsville, Pa. Of course, between that and the recent cold and snow, I am pondering books and the holidays. In our house, I always encouraged the reading of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson.…
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What I am reading
Last year, I read at least 80 books. (I also spent $5,000 on books in 2024, which was shocking to realize.) I balance the titles I chose to read among many categories. I rotate between small press and independent authors who I meet. I regularly pick something popular; I just…
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