Paula Hendricks's Blog

• Why I love mysteries

  December 11, 2008

  • A friend asked me why I liked mysteries and to recommend “three mystery type books that I think typify the genre, yet at the same time represent the finer points of it…” Nice, huh? This friend wants to familiarize himself with the genre… So, here goes.I had a long long list of authors I like and I tried to figure out why I liked them.Overall, I like mysteries because there are two stories ...
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• Our President-Elect reads books

  December 2, 2008

  • It matters to those of us in the book world that people read, or don’t read, books. We have all read the sad statistics* about books and reading, such as:58% of US adult population never reads another book after high school80% of US families did not buy or read a book last year42% of college graduates never read another book33$ of high school graduates never read another book57% of new books ...
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• Conversation with Alan Black

  May 19, 2008

  • I'm just gettting started here at Red Room. My first audio file is a conversation with Alan Black, last year at the Edinburgh Castle. I hope you enjoy it. I'll be putting up other files of readings and conversations with other writers. ph
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