by Merianna Neely Harrelson | Sep 28, 2015 | publishing, writing process
My initial work with authors involved a second grade classroom that was a combination of eager writers and reluctant writers. As we got to know each other and has a predictable time for writing each day, those reluctant writers became less timid and those eager...
by Merianna Neely Harrelson | Aug 26, 2015 | Book Review, what I'm reading
Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia, accomplishes a great work in her book The Signature of All Things. For some one who has had a best seller like Eat, Pray, Love, the task of...
by Merianna Neely Harrelson | Jul 28, 2015 | Book Review, what I'm reading
by Merianna Harrelson I tried to drag the last fifty pages of The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd out because I simply didn’t want the book to end. I wanted to continue to follow the stories of Sarah and Handful as they wrestle with two types of slavery: one...
by Merianna Neely Harrelson | Jul 24, 2015 | Book Review
by Molly McConnell I remember the media adoration and critical love when The Goldfinch was released (Donna Tartt’s latest novel and Pulitzer Prize Winner). I passed on the chance to read it, instead sticking to my Amazon list – you can’t tell I’m goal-oriented,...
by Merianna Neely Harrelson | Jul 14, 2015 | Book Review
by Molly McConnell This is not a book I would have picked up or known about had I not been reading through Amazon’s 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime- a stellar list. Different stories are woven together into a single narrative, each chapter chronicling a different...
