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Drumroll: Let's Talk About Fictional Sex
February 25, 2021
Sex scenes provide authors an opportunity to explore their characters more deeply. (Pun intended!) Fiction is not a how-to manual, but sex scenes are about...
Reading Round Up - Fourth Quarter 2020
January 15, 2021
My big number crunching post is still to come over on the blog. But the last three months of reading with some highlights I read. As per usual, this is based...
Consent and Discussions of Pop Culture
December 30, 2020
Content Warning: I will be discussing fictional violations of consent and disclosure. If this is not the right time for you to engage with such, I completely...
How Flowers Made Me Like Instagram or Vice Versa
December 4, 2020
I am a person who took photography classes in high school. I had - okay still technically have a flickr account. I had shutterfly and a bunch of other things...
Always Have a Book On Your Phone
November 6, 2020
This may sound weirder in these pandemic times when a lot of us are spending more time at home, but I highly recommend this idea. Obviously, a phone has a...
Reading Roundup - Third Quarter 2020
October 16, 2020
Let’s start with disclaimers. I started doing this over on my blog, so the prior quarters can be found there. I am a mood reader, so this will be a mix of...
What About Baking?
October 2, 2020
I have been through more flour and sugar this year than I have before. I've dialed back a bit on pandemic baking, because well, it turns out eating a lot of...
What to Watch?
September 18, 2020
I have reached a funny place in my TV watching. It's not quite as bad as my music acquisition which these days is mostly cast albums of new musicals these...
A Theater-Sized Hole in My Heart
August 28, 2020
I had briefly considered calling this series Bored in the House. I recognize not everyone has the privilege to stay home right now, and that even finding...
What to Read?
August 14, 2020
One thing I didn’t address in part one, is what if time is a factor. I will say that I like anthologies a lot forhttps://fiyahlitmag.com/ this. (And not just...
What to Read?
July 31, 2020
Someone asked me how I decide to what to read these days, and I realized, at this point my process is so layered it is hard to replicate. I wrote a little...
Books, Writing, and Other Interesting Things
July 27, 2020
Welcome to Talkapedia by me, Tara Kennedy. Tara Kennedy is a lifelong Washingtonian. By day she wrangles data and by night she writes tales that involve...