Anne R. Allen Blogster
June 27, 2020
My First Bad Book Review Last week, I procrastinated in writing about “Bad Reviews” on Amazon. I had recently received my first bad review and was stung by its tenor and content. The review came across as scolding–like “why did you waste my time with this book–so full of shallow characters, too many footnotes, etc. A real writer would have […]
October 23, 2019
The Die is Cast The decision to walk the Camino was made a long time ago. I suppose it begins in the early 1960s, in the basement of our modest row house in a working-class neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, where my father, a police officer in New York City, has been assigned to a Spanish-speaking neighborhood in Brooklyn. He wants to […]