Dana Glossbrenner
Raise Your Hand If Tech Drives You Nuts
I wish I looked this cute while being crazy. When I was young and cute like this (sort of), I was one of the first people to get a word...
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Dana Glossbrenner
Jun 2, 20202 min read
Why I Love Book Clubs
For anyone suffering from "I hate chit-chat" disease, I know an escape. Join a book club. I love nothing better than talking about and...
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Dana Glossbrenner
Mar 20, 20201 min read
Where the Crawdads Sing: A Novel
Author Delia Owens is a zoologist, as a reader will realize. "Where the Crawdads Sing" paints a picture of the outer banks of North...
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Dana Glossbrenner
Mar 20, 20202 min read
Trusting the Reader
"Trust the reader." It's great advice. I've also heard it as "Let the reader do some of the work." These comments and others like them...
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Dana Glossbrenner
Oct 6, 20192 min read
We Can All Use a "Which Way Tree"
Texas author and Spur Award Winner Elizabeth Crook brings home another winner with her historical fiction in "The Which Way Tree." It's...
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Dana Glossbrenner
Apr 12, 20192 min read
A Writer Adds Spice
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni--a mouthful of a name to remember for this Texan, but well worth the effort when searching for her many books....
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Dana Glossbrenner
Jan 18, 20192 min read
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith): A Review
I've buried my head in some wonderful books in the past year--The Funeral Dress by Susan Gregg Gilmore, The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow...
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Dana Glossbrenner
Aug 6, 20182 min read
A Review of Iain Pears' "Stone's Fall"
The central mystery of Iain Pears’ Stone’s Fall concerns how John Stone died. Was the rich and powerful ship-building magnate pushed from...
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Dana Glossbrenner
Jun 17, 20182 min read
What's more fun? Writing a novel or writing a biography?
Someone recently asked me which was more enjoyable--writing fiction or nonfiction. First, I had to narrow the terms for myself. I think...
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Dana Glossbrenner
Apr 18, 20182 min read
All This in a Flower
Here's one bloom from the many on an African violet I have been nurturing the past four years. (Photo by Jim.) It's a beautiful reminder...
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Dana Glossbrenner
Oct 18, 20174 min read
A Man Called Ove: A Review
Swedish author Frederick Backman was repeatedly rejected in his attempt to publish his novel, A Man Called Ove. One publisher told him...
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Dana Glossbrenner
Sep 15, 20173 min read
The Pitfalls of Writing Contests: A Case Study
Note: PM me if you want to know the contest and its associated workshop that I am hereby boycotting. I have had an awful experience with...
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Dana Glossbrenner
Jun 15, 20172 min read
What to do, what to do?
I'm hearing from some of those affected by and concerned about Texas's negligence toward teachers and education. They read my March blog...
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Dana Glossbrenner
Jun 15, 20172 min read
A Review of Amor Towles' "A Gentleman in Moscow"
Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov, saved from being shot after the Russian Revolution because a poem attributed to him expressed the People's...
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Dana Glossbrenner
Mar 16, 20174 min read
Texas Betrays Teachers
Noting the priorities of our Texas State legislators, I’m ready for a regime change, because current priorities stink. Treatment of...
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Dana Glossbrenner
Mar 14, 20175 min read
Bathroom Bills
Laws about who can use which bathrooms should be recycled into toilet paper. They’re just in place to make a statement— most notably in...
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Dana Glossbrenner
Mar 2, 20172 min read
Women Protesters and the Hats They Wear
Please note: I am NOT talking about the cute pink toboggans with cat ears. I love those, and I want one. I am talking about the...
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Dana Glossbrenner
Feb 6, 20173 min read
Book Review: The Gold Coast, by Nelson DeMille
Nelson DeMille’s The Gold Coast, a bestseller from 1990, is a lasting classic. Author of crime series thrillers and a host of other...
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Dana Glossbrenner
Feb 2, 20172 min read
A Review of "The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry," by Gabrielle Zevin
A.J. Fikry is a misanthrope, a misfit, a learned man of books whose irascibility would drive his customers at Island Bookstore elsewhere...
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Dana Glossbrenner
Nov 21, 201632 min read
Out of Roswell, a Short Story
Out of Roswell Randon Jones pulled into the Navaho Inn on a Wednesday evening. The attached restaurant looked busy, judging from the...
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