As 2010 winds down and we look forward to what’s to come in 2011, there’s never been a better time to join The Sin City Siren Book Club! You’ve still got about a month until the deadline for our next book, Opting In: Having a Child Without Losing Yourself by Amy Richards. It’s all about…
The results of the run-off vote are in and you have unanimously picked Opting-In as the next SCS Book Club selection! Here’s my tiny synopsis: Opting In: Having a Child Without Losing Yourself by Amy Richards (non-fiction): True, I had this on the list last time, too. This is my overt feminist agenda at work.…
The next SCS Book Club selection is… a tie? With all votes in, we have a tie between Amy Richards’ Opting In and local author Matt O’Brien’s My Week at the Blue Angel. So, let’s have a run-off! Voting ends Wednesday to make the call between the two books! Here’s the short synopsis of each:…
It’s time to pick the next selection for The Sin City Siren Book Club! I’ve taken your feedback and I hope this next batch grabs your interest. While I didn’t receive very many book title suggestions, the main feedback seemed to be “more fiction, please!” As it turns out, I’m really into non-fiction. So, I’ve…
As we head in to the holiday season, it might be nice to have a little mental getaway as handy as a book. (You can read it in line at the post office or while hiding in the closet from your nosy sister.) So how ’bout it? Let’s pick the next selection for The Sin…
When I caught a whiff of uproar over the self-published The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-Lover’s Code of Conduct, I admit I had to take a few digital steps back and collect my thoughts. As a survivor of sexual abuse, I didn’t even want to open the links flashing through on twitter.…
It’s time to pick the next SCS Book Club book! Let me hear your suggestions. I’ll round them up and add in a few of my own and we’ll vote on them, like last time. I’m thinking we can meet in early January, to give us time to get through the holidays. So, give me…
Local author Matt O’Brien is launching his second book, My Week at the Blue Angel, on Saturday at the Vegas Valley Book Festival. (Photos are by brilliant and award-winning local photographer Bill Hughes.) He will be featured with Victoria Patterson during a panel discussion called Storytelling in the Modern Southwest at 1:45 p.m. at the…
In honor of the Vegas Valley Book Festival, I want to get a little literary on you. There’s an interesting post here about the best Fictional Feminists of all time. Hester Prynne. Jane Eyre. Ramona Quimby. Good choices. But I don’t agree with all the choices. I disagree with Scarlet O’Hara, who was an insufferable…
How’s it going book clubbers? Have you finished Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin? It’s the first selection — picked by popular vote — of The Sin City Siren Book Club! Today is the last day to RSVP to the book club meeting at my house — so send me a…
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