Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Reading/Watching

  • On the Reading List

    To my delight, I’ve been able to do some reading for pleasure again. And now, that I’ve finally caught up on all the administrivia associated with making my backlist available again (and gotten Murdoch out into the world), I’m looking forward to doing even more. This past week, I read That Book (as discussed yesterday)…

  • That Book

    You probably know the one I mean. Have you read it? Fifty Shades of Grey is a publishing sensation, and has been selling like crazy this spring (along with the other two books in the trilogy). I tend to avoid reading books that are so wildly popular, because invariably, I don’t like them much and…

  • Lost in a Book

    Today, I got lost in a book. It wasn’t planned and it certainly wasn’t expected. The book was one of my own, which I hadn’t read in a long time. The idea was that I would be formatting it and getting it ready for republication – the reality was that I started reading and couldn’t…

  • Another Interesting Book

    A while ago, I saw the movie Anonymous. If you haven’t seen it, it’s either historical fiction or historical speculation – the idea is that somebody else wrote Shakespeare’s plays, specifically a nobleman named Edward de Vere. The movie told his story. It was beautifully photographed and very evocative of Elizabethan England. The chronology of…

  • A Wonderful Book

    Yesterday, I did something that I haven’t done for a while – I plucked a book from my To Be Read pile and fell right in to the story. It’s been a long time since I’ve had a lot of time to read fiction, and even longer since I’ve picked up a book that grabbed…