Thursday, December 25, 2008
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Writing is a journey. This is the story of mine.
About Me
- Macy O'Neal
- I live in Sunny Florida with my husband, kids, and four great dogs. While I have a day job I love, my dream is to write. My goal is to make writing my career. These are all my ravings along the way.
Books read in 2009
- Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival by Norman Ollestad
- Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
- Labor Day by Joyce Maynard
- Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
- Joker One by Donovan Campbell
- My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
- Farewell, My Subaru: An Epic Adventure in Local Living by Doug Fine
- The Places in Between by Rory Stewart
- The Devil’s Company by David Liss
- Santa Olivia by Jacqueline Carey
- Don't Judge A Girl by Her Cover by Ally Carter
- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
- Tap and Gown: An Ivy League Novel by Diana Peterfreund
- Rites of Spring (Break): An Ivy Leauge Novel by Diana Peterfreund
- Under the Rose: An Ivy League Novel by Diana Peterfreund
- Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
- Secret Society Girl: An Ivy League Novel by Diana Peterfreund
- Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale (book 1) by Holly Black
- Graceling by Kristin Cashore
- Dragonflight (Dragon Riders of Pern, book 1) by Anne McCaffrey
- The Gunslinger (Dark Tower 1) by Stephen King
- Smooth Talking Stranger by Lisa Kleypas
- Many Stones by Carolyn Coman
- The Darkest Night by Gena Showalter
- The Pagan Stone by Nora Roberts
- Into the Forest by Jean Hegland
- White Heat by Cherry Adair
- Close to Shore by Michael Capuzzo
- Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
- Be More Chill by Ned Vizzini
- Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr
- Just Breathe by Susan Wiggs
- The Translator: A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari
- The Good, Good Pig by Sy Montgomery
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho
- A Journal for Jordan by Dana Canedy
- Finding Nouf by Zoe Ferraris
- Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden
- Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
- The Society of S by Susan Hubbard
Books read in 2008
- The Disreputable History of Frankie Landue-Banks by E. Lockhart
- It Had to Be You by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
- The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
- The Lonely Crossing of Juan Cabrera by J. Joaquin Fraxedas
- A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers will Rule the Future by Daniel H. Pink
- Driven by Eve Kenin
- Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream by Adam Shepard
- From Baghdad to America: Life Lessons from a Dog Named Lava by Jay Kopelman
- The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
- The Wave by Todd Strasser
- The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat
- Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen
- The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen
- The Lost Duke of Wyndham by Julia Quinn
- Faefever by Karen Marie Moning
- Brothers by Da Chen
- Splendid by Julia Quinn
- When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka
- The Hollow by Nora Roberts
- Blood Brothers by Nora Roberts
- Austenland by Shannon Hale
- Gossamer by Lois Lowry
- Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
- The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
- Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally Carter
- In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
- Dark Seduction by Brenda Joyce
- The Sins of His Past by Roxanne St. Claire
- What’s So Amazing About Grace by Philip Yancy
- The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng
- The Mercenary (T-FLAC Series, Book #1) by Cherry Adair
- the Host by Stephanie Meyer
- Socratic Circles: Fostering Critical and Creative Thinking in Middle and High School by Matt Copeland
- The Charm School by Nelson DeMille
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
- Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
- His Style of Seduction by Roxanne St. Claire
- Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass
- Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
- Blue-Eyed Devil by Lisa Kleypas
- How Far is the Ocean from Here by Amy Shearn
- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn
- London Calling by Edward Bloor
- I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You by Ally Carter
- Runemarks by Joanne Harris
- Madapple by Christina Meldrum
- The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis
- How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
- Burning Up by Sarah Mayberry
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
- Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder
- Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella
- Bloodfever by Karen Marie Moning
- Breaking Point by Suzanne Brockmann
- The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
- Green Angel by Alice Hoffman
- The Unsung Hero by Suzanne Brockmann
- Over Sea, Under Stone: The Dark is Rising Sequence, Book 1 by Susan Cooper
- Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands by Susan Carol McCarthy
- Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder
- Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer
- Seduced by the Wealthy Playboy by Sara Orwig
- Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas
- Raven’s Gate (Power of Five series #1) by Anthony Horowitz
- The CEO’s Scandalous Affair by Roxanne St. Claire
Books read in 2007
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanely sensitive. To them... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, their very breath is cut off...They must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency they are not really alive unless they are creating.
Pearl Buck US novelist in China (1892 - 1973)
Pearl Buck US novelist in China (1892 - 1973)
“…you have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way..” -- Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
"Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail." --Hemingway
"Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail." --Hemingway
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