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April 15, 2008 12:31 PM EDT
(shared with group: November 21, 2009)
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Travel, Grieving, the Writing Life, Book Reviews, Fictions, Random Musings, all my posts are here for your convenience, especially when the pull-down menus don't work. Please let me know if a link doesn't . . .
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November 20, 2009 04:35 PM EST
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. ~Cicero
Celebrations of the harvest have existed for as long as civilization, for indeed it was agriculture that . . .
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November 20, 2009 07:38 AM EST
(shared with group: November 20, 2009)
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I am very happy to say that my reading blog is one year old and this week I have been
celebrating this special event. Because I believe that books should be given and they are the best presents . . .
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November 20, 2009 03:40 AM EST
(shared with group: November 20, 2009)
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The trees have lost their leaves and the water birds have flown south. Nature has made a space which feels like it needs filling. It isn't so strange that we choose this barren time of year for giving . . .
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November 19, 2009 05:47 PM EST
(shared with group: November 19, 2009)
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“Is this just?” Arthur asked, unsure of how to read the great violence unspooling around him. “I don’t like the look of such a fire gone wild, now that I see it.” . . .
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November 19, 2009 05:27 PM EST
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Oh dear, Christmas shopping is starting NOW NOW NOW !!!
So it's my duty to remind you that my latest novel, Merlin's Charge , needs to be at the top of your holiday wish list !!!
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November 19, 2009 10:02 AM EST
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AudioFile Editors Toast Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Neil Gaiman's blend of fantasy and horror entertains adult audiences with . . .
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November 19, 2009 08:09 AM EST
(shared with group: November 19, 2009)
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I've been hoping they would come out with this for a long time and just got an e-mail about it today. Here's the link if you need it:
Free Kindle Program Download
You can . . .
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November 18, 2009 10:06 PM EST
(shared with group: November 18, 2009)
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There was something off about this film that I can’t rightly put my finger on. Don’t get me wrong, on several levels I enjoyed it, but after some reflection I think it doesn’t . . .
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November 17, 2009 06:06 PM EST
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One of the things that Dan Brown does well, this I even remember from ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ is that he knows how to end a book chapter with the reader wanting to read more. In ‘ . . .
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November 16, 2009 06:36 PM EST
(shared with group: November 16, 2009)
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GOOD OMENS
Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett Read by Martin Jarvis
Who would have thought that the Apocalypse would be so entertaining? Martin Jarvis’s attentiveness to the authors' . . .
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November 16, 2009 06:57 AM EST
(shared with group: November 16, 2009)
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Psychological thrillers have got to be one of my favorite books to read. And yet for the past ten months or so I feel like I have completely abandoned them for the sake of discovering . . .
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November 15, 2009 09:19 PM EST
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I gasped awake, coughing up ice-cold saltwater onto the damp sand next to me. My entire body ached, and I was shivering. My arms and legs felt numb and hot at the same time, which I knew from experience . . .
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November 15, 2009 12:52 PM EST
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If you are anything like me, which I will not presume , you tend to like to stand out from the crowd. I make jewelry and I know how to knit scarves, thus walk around satisfied that I am wearing . . .
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November 15, 2009 11:44 AM EST
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I was led to Lorrie Moore's new novel, A Gate at the Stars, by the NY Times Book Review, and I plan to go back to see just what the reviewer found to like. This is a padded, overly cute novel that . . .
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November 13, 2009 08:28 PM EST
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Dan Brown’s latest book ‘The Lost Symbol’ was released on September 15 th and currently resides on the top of the New York Times bestseller list as a hardcover fiction. His . . .
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November 13, 2009 09:37 AM EST
(shared with group: November 13, 2009)
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Arthur asked Merlin, “What are the three crones of Camelot? What is Camelot?”
“It’s your destiny.”
“But what is it?” . . .
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November 11, 2009 05:08 PM EST
(shared with group: November 11, 2009)
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LAST NIGHT IN TWISTED RIVER
John Irving
Read by Arthur Morey
John Irving weaves a multigenerational, multi-layered tale, by turns heartbreakingly funny and shockingly grisly. Arthur . . .
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November 11, 2009 04:11 PM EST
(shared with group: November 11, 2009)
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"Come in," I called out. "I can't come to the door. I'm all crippled. I hurt my ankles the other day."
"Oh, OK, groovy," she answered and pulled on the door. "I'm Sue from the Nuclear Action . . .
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November 11, 2009 09:08 AM EST
(shared with group: November 11, 2009)
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The manservant said, “Bear loin. But say it like Baaaah lin, for he’s trying to be noble in these nowtimes. As a great Roman general everyone got an animal nickname. For some . . .
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