Tag: writing
group name: booksiliked
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November 15, 2007 12:36 PM EST --
I cried when I read this book "BRINGING ASHA HOME". It's a perfect gift for so many people this holiday season, specially to friends who have adopted children from overseas and to . . . more
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August 17, 2006 04:00 AM EDT --
Bookcrossing is a website where people get together to share books. They first register their books on the site and then trade and borrow books from each other. They also send books around . . . more
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March 25, 2008 12:02 PM EDT --
Recently I was riding in my car (blissfully and unexpectedly alone—except for my dog) and I heard an old Rod Stewart song. I'm not certain of the title but the lyrics go something like . . . more
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April 01, 2008 12:59 PM EDT --
This past week I received one of those forwarded emails that we all get from time to time. This one was from my sister-in-law (who is nine days older than I am) and was about the benefits of growing . . . more
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April 02, 2006 03:37 PM EDT --
John Banville's The Sea is a novel that reads like poetry. Every word is carefully chosen to create powerful images and feelings. It's not hard to see why this was chosen for the most . . . more
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May 22, 2006 10:33 PM EDT --
Diane Duane's The Book of Night With Moon combines two of my favorite elements: cats and wizards. The striking cover art catches the eye immediately, and the story synopsis completes the . . . more
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July 24, 2006 10:53 PM EDT --
This evening, I received a lovely thank-you message from Vina Byrne, a librarian at William B. Ogden Free Library in Walton, NY. Vina has created many illustrative scrapbooks on events and programs . . . more
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September 21, 2006 03:23 PM EDT --
I was tagged. Posted this on my blog. Enumerating what came first in my mind. There are too many....I left out Kafka, Nietzsche....
BOOK MEME
1. One book that changed your life?
Fountainhead by Ayn . . . more
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September 22, 2006 07:06 AM EDT --
I had picked this book long time back. I only got around reading it recently. After I finished it, I felt nothing has changed. A woman is still dubbed a scarlet one if she has a child outside of marriage . . . more
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September 23, 2006 09:42 AM EDT --
Three best friends are about to stumble into love - and more - with three men who will make them come alive as they never imagined. It's a powerfully sensual novel that could only come from one blazing . . . more
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September 23, 2006 09:50 AM EDT --
"How much change can one summer bring? For 32 year old Caddie Winger, one summer can make the whole world look different. Jolted out of her comfy, self-made nest and forced to look at the world with . . . more
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January 04, 2007 09:42 AM EST --
Review of Sergio Ruzzier's The Room of Wonders.
Pius Pelosi, the rat and hero of The Room of Wonders, collects many delightful things he discovers in the course of his daily routine: shiny keys, . . . more
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June 22, 2007 10:33 AM EDT --
i've read beryl's writing for many years - her eloquent columns of life on the north shore provided much-needed balm to my city-dwelling soul, stranded in minneapolis. i longed to be on a lake, . . . more
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February 12, 2008 10:22 AM EST --
One of the things a writer is supposed to do is to strip away the surface of our everyday selves and get underneath what's polished and pretty to the more essential stuff of life. After writing three . . . more
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February 19, 2008 10:57 AM EST --
All the love that Obama is feeling from Oprah these days makes me nostalgic for the time I was close to feeling it, too. My almost-on-Oprah moments, I call them, and I mention them at cocktail . . . more
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May 28, 2007 03:58 PM EDT --
I have seen this book a few times on lists of ‘must reads’ for writers. I’m not a writer. I have no aspirations of being a writer. I read this book because I am . . . more
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September 07, 2007 08:25 PM EDT --
Fiction is my passion, but really good, gripping fiction is hard to come by. I don't mean action adventure; not my style. Give me a story about real, fleshed-out people, not flat . . . more
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September 18, 2007 05:00 PM EDT --
While we tend to think solely of lovers as potential recipients of our written expressions of love, we should not exclude our mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, children and friends when setting . . . more
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February 15, 2008 04:30 PM EST --
Chapter Three
My cold feet woke me. They dangled over the side of the bed, almost numb. I drew them back under the blankets, rubbed my legs together to generate heat, and . . . more
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August 22, 2006 08:45 PM EDT --
"The Accidental" is a very creatively written book. Each chapter or section is written by a different point of view of the characters involved. And they are written as stream of thought, . . . more
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