Tag: novels
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November 30, 2009 05:44 PM EST --
Not everybody on your list should get a novel about drag queens or aging movie stars or sex changes or a wizard or depression era brothels (my novels, tee hee).
Sometimes you need something . . .
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April 13, 2008 05:01 PM EDT --
The older I get, the more I value short novels. It's a ratio thing. When I sit down to read, I wonder what percentage of my remaining life will be devoted to the book that is now in my hands. And what . . .
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June 03, 2009 10:37 AM EDT --
Put me on your Wish List !!! Woot !!!
Hollywood Sinners
The Joan Crawford Murders
Bad Movies
(those are novels)
... or better yet, just do me for free - tell . . .
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April 26, 2008 11:19 AM EDT --
Since I do a little writing, I enjoy metafiction, stories and novels in which the creative process itself is part of the theme. A great one from a couple of decades back was The French Lieutenant's . . .
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February 23, 2009 09:12 PM EST --
One of my fellow bloggers tagged me with this fun meme and I figured I would post it on Gather as well. I really enjoyed writing it all down.
Tell me about the book that's . . .
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July 16, 2008 01:35 PM EDT --
It seems as though each time you check his website, Ian McEwan has collected another award, and with the success of Atonement he has to be considered one of the great living novelists in English. Although . . .
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September 19, 2008 09:05 AM EDT --
Last night St. Scholastica College in Duluth MN hosted an event in memory of Carol Bly and in praise of her posthumous novel, Shelter Half. Carol, who died in December of 2007, was a native of Duluth . . .
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August 04, 2008 09:33 AM EDT --
When this year's Pen/Faulkner Award went to Kate Christensen's The Great Man , the decision was announced as a departure. Rather than look for artistic subtlety or social significance, the committee . . .
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January 19, 2009 09:55 PM EST --
I am one of those true geeks who prefer listening to books instead of music. When a few years back I discovered that there actually were books on audio, it was a magical moment for me. I have enjoyed . . .
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August 01, 2009 11:15 PM EDT --
I downloaded the eReader on the Barnes and Noble site today for free. With the download, you can receive five classics and a free dictionary. The books are Dracula , The Last of the Mohicans . . .
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October 28, 2006 04:41 AM EDT --
Award-winning romance novelist Margaret Kaine was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire in the United Kingdom. She worked as a lecturer at further education colleges, re-training women to begin new office . . .
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January 13, 2009 07:42 AM EST --
What a delectable novel! It is about Vianne Roche and her daughter Anouk who move into a little town of Lasquenet in France. There, they decide to open a chocolaterie, right across the street from the . . .
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June 11, 2007 10:26 AM EDT --
Please join us in welcoming Alex Carr to Gather.
ALEX CARR is (under her real name, Jenny Siler) the critically acclaimed author of the novels Easy Money, Iced, Shot, and Flashback. She lives with her . . .
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January 07, 2009 09:42 PM EST --
Even though Peter Straub is considered a contemporary horror fiction writer, I would not call Mr. X a typical horror (if there even is such a thing). It is a story told by Ned Dunstan, who on his . . .
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August 28, 2009 08:40 AM EDT --
Blood on His Hands by Mark P. Sadler
I have performed very poorly as far as reading goes in the past couple of months (*gasp* is it really months?! Yes, I guess it is!!!). I started . . .
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September 05, 2006 07:59 AM EDT --
Emily Maguire is a Sydney novelist, essayist and English teacher. She has an MA in English Literature and divides her time between teaching English and writing.
Her articles on sex, religion, culture . . .
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January 22, 2009 09:59 AM EST --
You would think that after months of exclusive study of Shakespeare's work in college and years of reading I would have a better idea of the Bard himself. As it turned out during reading The . . .
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January 28, 2009 07:52 AM EST --
1) How do you feel about classic literature? Are you intimidated by it? Love it? Not sure because you never actually tried it? Don't get why anyone reads anything else? Which classics, if any, have . . .
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February 23, 2009 05:02 AM EST --
I count historical novels among my most beloved genres. Rarely do I get disappointed with authors taking on the task of writing historical fiction. And The Kingmaking by Helen Hollick didn't disappoint . . .
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December 16, 2008 02:42 PM EST --
I just noticed that the second edition of No Sensible People (the one with the cover designed by my son, that's my icon right now) is available on Amazon.com, under ISBN 978-0557023189. It's . . .
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