Why Read

So we can read, and learn to write things like this -

from Kathi Appelt's book The Underneath -

.....a man who drank the hard-edged vodka brought in from Russia and the bitter gin from England, who stumbled home, just as hard-edged and bitter as the vodka and gin. ....


Pssst... a hint for those of you out there reading, be sure to keep an eye on the James River Writers site. For news coming on the Conference to be held in October.
That's all I'm sayin' ... Keep watch. ;) here uh, yeah, go ahead and look now!