About Kate

About What Kate's Reading

I started What Kate's Reading in late 2007 both to review books I've read and to present a space for people to talk about books. Often book clubs can be disappointing or even intimidating; I wanted to create a site where people can feel free to discuss, disagree, or rave at will.

My reading tastes can occasionally be eclectic, but you'll see a few trends. I generally read fiction, indiscriminately, though the occasional nonfiction will be thrown in. My nonfiction choices tend to be popular history or sometimes academic books or articles; depending on the topic, reviews of academic pieces may be either critical or synoptical. I also read a fair amount of romance novels, as they are my "curl up with a book" genre of choice; most of the romances I read are historical with the occasional contemporary thrown in.

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About Kate

From a very young age, I've always been a reader and a writer. I mastered the art of one-handed eating so I could read at the dinner table, much to my mother's dismay. I took a book with me everywhere we went - baseball games, family weddings - because books were always so much more interesting than the world around me. When I was selected as a winner in the Indiana Young Authors contest in both second and fifth grade (the only years the contest is offered), I knew I was meant to be a writer.

Life takes different courses, though, and after finishing up my master's degree in Medieval Archaeology from York University, UK, I found myself in Portland, Oregon, where there is decidedly little use for medieval archaeologists. To keep the academic bookishness alive in me, I review research and reference books for Book News, Inc. My novel, a modern women's fiction book tentatively titled Weather Permitting: A Romance With Archaeological Undertones, is currently in editing with Kristin Thiel at Indigo Editing, LLC; my next book, also a fiction entitled Old Habits, is about half-completed in its first draft. Find my playlist for Old Habits here. Yet another novel tentatively titled Mozarteum is in the beginning stages; find that playlist here.