Introduction

In the mid-1980s, husband Herb and I were living in Oklahoma, with busy lives as empty nesters. I was writing and publishing poetry, short stories and lots of newspaper and magazine articles. On a whim, I asked the publisher of a local newspaper if I might write a weekly column on books and writers. The column was to mainly feature reviews of new and favorite books. To my complete surprise, he took a look at a couple of reviews I had published for a major newspaper and said, okay. So for ten years I wrote and published two or three reviews a week under the column title, "Booknotes." Then life intervened, we move and undertook some projects that no longer left me time to write, I no longer had time to read. At least not enough to write reviews because you can lead a bookaholic away from books, but you can't make her stop reading. Now life has changed again and now I have time to read and ponder and write again. So this blog will be about books and authors and maybe my own literary experiences. Blogs seem to develop their own lives, so we shall see. I hope you will join me in a blogging adventure into the literary world, which is one of my favorite places in the universe. Sunnye Tiedemann