Once upon a time, I had a really close friend. She was one of the first people who “got” me, and as such I felt truly comfortable sharing my insecurities and fears with her. Then she dumped me. Where once we emailed back and forth several times a day, my emails were suddenly ignored. It wasn’t […]
Read More →This week I’m featuring one of my favorite books. I really pushed myself with this book, and it paid off. Simon is one heck of a tragic hero. In fact, Wendy the Super Librarian called it one of her Best Reads of 2014. Delilah St. Germaine fell for New York’s most in-demand bachelor, Simon Cartwright, […]
Read More →For the past fourteen years, my mother’s had three wishes: — To die. — To die peacefully in her own home. — To not spend the last of her days in a nursing home. None of her wishes has come true. The sad thing about this isn’t that my mother is spending her days in […]
Read More →THE HEART OF A HERO Helping people comes naturally to Zoe Hamilton—she has the advice column to prove it. All she wants this summer, though, is to lick her postdivorce wounds in peace. That’s fine by her surly-yet-handsome neighbor, ex-army captain Jake Meyers; he just wants to be left alone. Jake might believe his emotions […]
Read More →I’ve developed a real liking for audio books over the past few years. Back when I was making the weekly six hour drive to my mother’s house, things like podcasts and audio books made the trips fly by. There, I was super excited when this year, for Christmas, Captain Pete bought me a copy of […]
Read More →Welcome to First Chapter Friday. Every Friday during 2018, I’ll be sharing the first chapter of a book for your sampling pleasure. Some of the books will be mine, and some will be from guest colleagues and friends. It’s a way of introducing you both to books of mine you may not have had the […]
Read More →As you may or may not know, last month I took a part-time job at Barnes & Noble. With the next being completely empty these days, I was finding myself growing lonely. Working at home is great, but working at home alone twelve hours a day is also very isolating. I found myself longing […]
Read More →Happy 2018 and welcome to a Tuesday edition of Monday Musings. Clearly, I’m starting the year off on schedule. But then, being a day behind is pretty much my modus operandi. In fact, maybe I should make it my tagline – Barb Wallace – A Day Late. It has potential. I mentioned last week that […]
Read More →Happy end of 2017! I’m finishing up the year with a lovely cold, courtesy of working retail for the past month. (I knew there was a reason why I stayed locked in my house all these years). Still, I didn’t want to leave 2017 without posting one last blog. 2017 was a very interesting year […]
Read More →Where did the month go? I made the promise in November, that I would be consistent with my Monday Musings. Unfortunately, that was prior to my getting a retail gig for the holidays. I’ve spent the past two Monday’s selling books at Barnes & Noble. (Note: Books make awesome Christmas gifts. Like really, really awesome […]
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