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Judi Clark, Editor

Judi Clark is the editor of MostlyFiction.com.  She started MostlyFiction in February 1998 as an excercise to learn HTML  It is no wonder that she would choose recommending books as her website subject matter. She has been an avid reader all of her life — and has always felt that it was important to tell people about the books that she was reading.  Just ask her family and they will roll their eyes in response.

judi1She reads mostly fiction, of course, and loves all the genres that this site includes.  Hey, this website is her baby, so this makes sense. But really, she will read anything.  And on any media, as it turns out.  Not surprising since cereal boxes at breakfast used to be a good way to sneak an extra read.  Now she reads books on her Kindle, and even better, on her iPod Touch. She just downloads the Kindle books to her iPod Touch and now she always has a book in her back pocket  (and can even read without turning on the light at night).  Of course, mixed in that are advanced reader copies, library books, and the perpetual collection of  hard cover and paperbacks.  And when they are traveling, road signs and historical markers will do. Internet news seems to have replaced the cereal boxes.

Originally she wrote all the reviews herself, but in order to cover a greater number of books, she recruited others to help write reviews, luring fellow avid readers with promises of free books.  She now has the best team of reviewers and is so successful that in the past few years, she’s not had time to write any of her own reviews.  Especially since she wants to read nearly every book that gets posted on MostlyFiction.  So, many, many books….

Judi has lived in New Hampshire, Maine, and the Florida Keys (on their sailboat).  Sheand Carl  now live in a Class A motor home. They are currently based out of Quartzsite, Arizona.  At least until it gets too hot. Or they get too antsy.  The MacBookPro on which these pages are created, keep her in the virtual world much of the time.

She is always hoping that she’ll have time to write reviews again.

Here are the most recent reviews:

2009

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

2000

1999

1998

2 Responses

  1. donaldhshields - June 26, 2009

    Hi: I would like to correct some of the biographical information on my late wife, the writer Carol Shields. Here goes (corrections in CAPS) :
    Carol Shields, born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1935, studied at Hanover College, the University of Exeter in England, and received an MA from the University of Ottawa. At age 22, she married Donald Shields and moved to Canada, where SHE LIVED THE REST OF HER LIFE. She is the mother of five now grown children.
    Shields has been a professor at the University of Ottawa, the University of British Columbia, and DELETE ‘HAS’ taught at the University of Manitoba for 15 years. In 1996, she became the Chancellor of the University of Winnipeg. She is a novelist, poet, DELETE ‘AND’ playwright, and critic INSERT PERIOD. DELETE ‘AND’, CAROL SHIELDS is the recipient of FIFTEEN honorary doctorates from Universities in Canada and the United States, and was awarded Orders of Canada in 1999 AND 2002.
    Carol Shields is perhaps best known for her Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Stone Diaries. The Stone Diaries also won Canada’s Governor General Award for Fiction, AND THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD. THE STONE DIARIES was nominated for the 1993 Booker Prize. Additionally, it was named one of the best books of the year by Publisher’s Weekly, and a Notable Book by the New York Times Book Review.
    Her novel, Larry’s Party, was the winner of the Orange Prize and The New York Times Notable Book of the Year. It was also shortlisted for the Giller Prize and DELETE ‘IS NOMINATED’ the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the world’s richest literary prize. Larry’s Party was also adapted as a musical by Richard Ouzounian and Marek Norman, and premiered at Canadian Stage in January 2001.
    Most of her latest novel Unless was written in seven months when Shields “had energy”. In 1999, she was diagnosed with breast cancer; she had a mastectomy, radiation and chemotherapy, the THE CANCER CAME BACK and SHE died of complications on July 16, 2003 at the age of 68. UNLESS WAS MADE INTO A STAGE PLAY BY CAROL AND HER DAUGHTER SARA. IT WAS PERFORMED IN THE MAJOR CITIES OF CANADA IN 2005.

  2. MFadmin - June 27, 2009

    Thanks, Donald!

    I have corrected the information on this page:
    Review of UNLESS by Carol Shields

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