Elizabeth Bass

Today marks the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens. He’s been all over the internet for weeks, but I didn’t think much about the occasion until this morning when I saw a video in The Guardian of Simon Callow touring Dickens sites in London. Just that brief autobiographical sketch made me remember how interesting the man [...]

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I had applesauce. I had leftover sweet potatoes. A Google search led me to this recipe, which I made this morning.  Yum!  I used part whole wheat flour and half the butter, and I skipped the topping (just mixed the cinnamon in the dough). They came out very tasty. Sweet Potato and Applesauce Biscuits: 2 [...]

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I’m afraid to say “bring it on” to a year, because I know years can be more fierce than I’m able to imagine while sitting in my recliner in January, drawing up resolutions. But the welcome mat is out for 2012. From what I’ve been reading online, 2011 didn’t get much love from people. I [...]

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Yes, I’m a nerd. Each December I savor drawing up an official reading list for the coming year. I started doing this a few years ago when I noticed that, left to my own devices, I end up re-reading the same twenty novels and not discovering new authors. So this is the time of year [...]

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I love it when the stars align and something I needed but wasn’t aware of falls into my lap. It’s December, and I’m trying to finish reading books that I’ve let fall by the wayside during the year.  I always read several books at a time, and inevitably one or two get abandoned for the [...]

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Is it mid November already? I’ve been a blog slug so far this fall.  Why?  I’ve been busy–editing, writing, and actually taking a vacation to visit my sister in Virginia.  Which was so much fun!  We went all over–to Washington DC, to Monticello, to Harper’s Ferry.  It’s a beautiful part of the country and I [...]

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Not that long ago, Twitter lured me to a new-to-me blog that featured an interview with author Lisa Jewell.  Lisa is one was the early British chicklit authors I first read in the way-back-when. (That’s how I think of the 1990s now. The 1980s are the way-way-back.).  When I got to the blog, I fell [...]

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Looking over my list of what I’ve been read so far this year, I couldn’t help noticing that half the books I didn’t actually read.  I listened to them.  I’ve loved listening to books since way back when my grandmother read to me from the Tasha Tudor Book of Fairy Tales. After I outgrew the [...]

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I’m blogging on the subject of horror this weekend at the Carina Press website: http://carinapress.com/blog/   In the past years, horror has become a favorite genre of mine for when I want something escapist and different.  I see many comments from people on the internet, especially women, who say that horror isn’t their thing.  I [...]

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Giving away stuff on my Facebook page today. Tell me your favorite vacation spot for a chance to win a gift certificate or free books!

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