Since it’s Thursday, I thought it might be fun to revisit the past. So let’s take a trip in the Wayback Machine to the late-1980s, when a cute 9-year-old picked up a violin for the first time. I was blessed to grow up in a lower-middle class New Jersey suburb that somehow had one of…
Tag: Kate McMurray
Here’s A Sneak Peek At The Coming Week!
Hi, everyone, I hope you’ve all had an outstanding week! We’ve got another busy and fun filled week coming up, with more great guests, giveaways, GRL Celebration fun, and, of course, more reviews. Here’s what’s on tap for the week ahead. Monday – Skylar M. Cates kicks off the week on her The Only Guy…
Here's A Sneak Peek At The Coming Week!
Hi, everyone, I hope you’ve all had an outstanding week! We’ve got another busy and fun filled week coming up, with more great guests, giveaways, GRL Celebration fun, and, of course, more reviews. Here’s what’s on tap for the week ahead. Monday – Skylar M. Cates kicks off the week on her The Only Guy…
Welcome, Sports Fans! It’s The Playing Ball Anthology Tour – Little League, Where it All Starts
Okay, as I’ve said before, I’ve always loved baseball, it’s in my blood, but I have to say that what really made me fall in love with it forever was by watching Little League games. I was never very good at sports myself. I was the girl picking flowers in the field at the soccer…
Welcome, Sports Fans! It's The Playing Ball Anthology Tour – Little League, Where it All Starts
Okay, as I’ve said before, I’ve always loved baseball, it’s in my blood, but I have to say that what really made me fall in love with it forever was by watching Little League games. I was never very good at sports myself. I was the girl picking flowers in the field at the soccer…
"What There Is" Leaves Room For More
“The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude.” – Julia Child I have loved the lion’s share of Kate McMurray’s previous work. With one exception, they have all been four or five star rated by me. That’s why when I got the opportunity to review…
“What There Is” Leaves Room For More
“The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude.” – Julia Child I have loved the lion’s share of Kate McMurray’s previous work. With one exception, they have all been four or five star rated by me. That’s why when I got the opportunity to review…
Across the East River Bridge by Kate McMurray
“Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.” – Voltaire Brooklyn, New York, 1878—it was an exceedingly dangerous time to be a gay man. In fact, for Theodore Cummings Brill and George Washington Cutler it was downright deadly. A crime that held all the earmarks of a double homicide was dismissed…
Across the East River Bridge by Kate McMurray
“Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.” – Voltaire Brooklyn, New York, 1878—it was an exceedingly dangerous time to be a gay man. In fact, for Theodore Cummings Brill and George Washington Cutler it was downright deadly. A crime that held all the earmarks of a double homicide was dismissed…
Out in the Field by Kate McMurray
After reading Joshua Martino’s Fontana, the outstanding fictional tale of a professional baseball player who is outed by a journalist and then falls victim to the aftermath of that invasion of his privacy, I was both hesitant and tempted to read Kate McMurray’s Out in the Field. Where Fontana does absolutely nothing to romanticize the…
Out in the Field by Kate McMurray
After reading Joshua Martino’s Fontana, the outstanding fictional tale of a professional baseball player who is outed by a journalist and then falls victim to the aftermath of that invasion of his privacy, I was both hesitant and tempted to read Kate McMurray’s Out in the Field. Where Fontana does absolutely nothing to romanticize the…
Small Gems – Lead Us Not by Kate McMurray
”Tis one thing to be tempted…another thing to fall.” – William Shakespeare – Measure for Measure (Act II, Scene I) Lead Us Not is a scary-tale. No, not in a things-that-go-bump-in-the-night kind of way, but in a life-seems-to-change-overnight kind of way. You meet the man of your dreams, fall in love, move to New York…
Small Gems – Lead Us Not by Kate McMurray
”Tis one thing to be tempted…another thing to fall.” – William Shakespeare – Measure for Measure (Act II, Scene I) Lead Us Not is a scary-tale. No, not in a things-that-go-bump-in-the-night kind of way, but in a life-seems-to-change-overnight kind of way. You meet the man of your dreams, fall in love, move to New York…
