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words + ideas: More Books Fed to Me as A Child
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A book lover and writer shares her thoughts on books and their authors. Follow my blog on Bloglovin. Follow my blog with Bloglovin. Friday, May 15, 2015. More Books Fed to Me as A Child. As a child, manners were important in my home. My mother tried, as best she could, to teach us how to act in the different situations we would face in life. Two of the children’s books that best prepared me for life were SesyleJoslin. 8217;s two classics – What Do You Do, Dear? Walk through the library quietly. Was out o...
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words + ideas: June 2015
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A book lover and writer shares her thoughts on books and their authors. Follow my blog on Bloglovin. Follow my blog with Bloglovin. Tuesday, June 23, 2015. I’ve been a busy bee reading this summer on all my travels to this date. But probably the best book I’ve read so far is Americanah. By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. I had just heard of. Adichie a few days before when my daughter bought a book. Of her popular Ted talk. Called “We Should All be Feminists.”. The life of an undocumented alien in London contra...
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words + ideas: Truth is Stranger (& Sadder) Than Fiction
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A book lover and writer shares her thoughts on books and their authors. Follow my blog on Bloglovin. Follow my blog with Bloglovin. Wednesday, June 13, 2012. Truth is Stranger (& Sadder) Than Fiction. Last night I just finished a sad, but enjoyable, novel called The Imperfectionists. This morning I woke up to read in the New York Times. About the layoffs at my beloved Times Picayune. Sometimes the truth is sadder than fiction. New Orleans Times Picayune. June 20, 2012 at 5:55 AM. Ive read this book as we...
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words + ideas: Books and Their Homes
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A book lover and writer shares her thoughts on books and their authors. Follow my blog on Bloglovin. Follow my blog with Bloglovin. Wednesday, October 17, 2012. Books and Their Homes. Thanks to my e-subscription to Shelf Awareness. I just read a delightful column called " People of the Bookshelf". In The Global Mail. Written by one of my favorite authors, Geraldine Brooks. Were placed in their own safe top shelf. I found it extremely satisfying to put all these special "friends" together in one place.
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words + ideas: Killing a Mockingbird?
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A book lover and writer shares her thoughts on books and their authors. Follow my blog on Bloglovin. Follow my blog with Bloglovin. Friday, July 17, 2015. As an active book blogger and huge fan of To Kill A Mockingbird. I feel compelled to write my review of Go Set A Watchman. As soon as I've finished it. My friend Evelyn and I were first in line at our local independent bookseller. Earlier this week here in Houston when the book was released on Tuesday, July 14. I was in as much shock as Jean Louise....
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words + ideas: Race in America(nah)
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A book lover and writer shares her thoughts on books and their authors. Follow my blog on Bloglovin. Follow my blog with Bloglovin. Tuesday, June 23, 2015. I’ve been a busy bee reading this summer on all my travels to this date. But probably the best book I’ve read so far is Americanah. By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. I had just heard of. Adichie a few days before when my daughter bought a book. Of her popular Ted talk. Called “We Should All be Feminists.”. The life of an undocumented alien in London contra...
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words + ideas: The Journey Through Fear
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A book lover and writer shares her thoughts on books and their authors. Follow my blog on Bloglovin. Follow my blog with Bloglovin. Friday, February 14, 2014. The Journey Through Fear. I just finished the book, Wild. At one point, she says, “I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. ...In April, Wild.
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words + ideas: Modern Fan Mail
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A book lover and writer shares her thoughts on books and their authors. Follow my blog on Bloglovin. Follow my blog with Bloglovin. Friday, February 8, 2013. Recently, I enjoyed reading Me Before You. April 6, 2013 at 10:00 AM. Ill visit here often! Great workshop last Thursday, thanks so much for all your ideas and for sharing that valuable info. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). What I'm Reading Now. Above the Waterfall by Ron Rash. Truth is Stranger (& Sadder) Than Fiction. The Journey Through Fear.
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words + ideas: Hogwarts Meets Windowne
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A book lover and writer shares her thoughts on books and their authors. Follow my blog on Bloglovin. Follow my blog with Bloglovin. Friday, October 26, 2012. Don't pick up The Casual Vacancy. Expecting to experience anything you've ever felt in J.K. Rowling's previous seven books about Harry Potter. Pagford, the small English town, and its school, Windowne, is not Hogwarts. And none of the teenagers in this new novel by the most-read living author are anything like Harry, Hermione and Ron.
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words + ideas: Words are Sacred
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A book lover and writer shares her thoughts on books and their authors. Follow my blog on Bloglovin. Follow my blog with Bloglovin. Thursday, February 23, 2012. The playwright Tom Stoppard said, “I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.”. February 23, 2012 at 8:20 AM. This comment has been removed by the author.
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