Writing

On Love and Engineers

I’m finally going over what I wrote of the next Firmament book, Eleftheria, and wanted to share an excerpt with you! It takes place in the first chapter of the book, after Olive (the nurse, and wife to the Surveyor‘s first engineer) has teased Andi about a boy that she thinks Andi might like. Andi is not amused, and the…

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Life, Writing

In Defense of Chuck Bartowski

Last weekend, I went out to dinner with some friends after an hour of kayaking. It just so happened that all the other girls had decided to head home, so dinner turned out to be me and five young single guys from my church. The most fun part of this was sitting in on “guy talk,” during which I might…

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Reviews

Not So Much a Review as a Pondering

A few days ago, I went to see Paper Towns. A few days before, I read the book. I did both because, as those who know me are aware, I’m a big fan of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars (not so much a fan of the teenage premarital sex, but I ignore that part). The Paper Towns movie,…

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