happy 2010! i’m back from england!
it’s so good to be home safe. holiday fotos
will follow soon! for the past three years,
i’ve shared my reading list as well as my
top five books on my blog. this year is different,
as i’m beginning to read books that are written by
authors i know, some even friends to me! the [...]

Category Archives: megan whalen turner
cindy’s 2009 reads and top five list!
January 1, 2010 – 5:10 pm
a very full saturday
December 7, 2009 – 12:14 pm
i had two events this past saturday.
the first was with the rolling readers at
the women’s head to toe expo at del mar
fairgrounds. when i originally signed up for
it, i thought it was a reading event. apparently,
it was the first time they decided to try and
do this book/author component with the expo,
and i suspected it might [...]
i dream of guilin
November 29, 2009 – 9:07 pm
my mom is making a trek back to her
village in the province of guangxi next spring–
her first time back since leaving china at age five
or so. she’s been back to china since, but never
to her home village.
guangxi is where the famous and gorgeous
guilin mountains are located, immortalized by
brush painters, then tourists and their fotographs.
how i [...]
streeeeeech
October 18, 2009 – 8:12 pm
*megan whalen turner and me! =D
last friday i had the pleasure of having
brunch with one of my favorite authors,
megan whalen turner! my editor had mentioned
megan’s books a few times while i was revising
silver phoenix with her, but i didn’t have the
time to pick up the queen’s thief series until
early this year. eugenides is hands down [...]
breaking the bad mojo
September 22, 2009 – 8:50 pm
i’m back from my stupendous tremendous
visit to nyc! i can’t imagine having had a
better trip–except for more time to spend
with my friends and explore the city. but
considering how long i was there, i had a
very full and lovely visit.
last week started badly. i found out i needed
to drive near two hours to the court up [...]