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Tag Archives: fiction
Just Say Yes
Five Photos, Five Stories #5 Saying “yes” is easy, I suppose, to the extrovert. Not so much for those of us of a more introverted nature. It’s not that we’re anti-social….exactly….but it takes more of an effort to mentally gear … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Challenges
Tagged blogging, extrovert, fiction, introvert, life lessons, Personal Principles
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Literary Kindred Spirits
Five Photos, Five Stories #2 Challenge Rules: I am to post a photo each day for five consecutive days and attach a story to the photo. It can be fiction or non-fiction, a poem, or a short paragraph. I am relentless when … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Challenges
Tagged fiction, margery sharp, nancy mitford, new york times, obituary, the innocents
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A Reading Resolution
Were it not for my fellow bloggers, I would not be the least tempted to break out of the reading rut in which I’ve been happily ensconced. I’m stuck in England, usually, reading Penelope Lively, Jane Gardam, Elizabeth Taylor, Muriel Spark, and a new … Continue reading
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Tagged book club, christopher lloyd, fiction, maitland-lewis, mark richard, nonfiction, peter temple, russell hoban, stephen king, terry pratchett
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“I Congo On.”
Just because I haven’t read an author’s body of work doesn’t mean I don’t have, at a minimum, firm impressions based on nothing more concrete than random reviews or whatever literary scuttlebutt I may have come across. Fair or not, I have to … Continue reading
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Tagged eudora welty, fiction, Matisse, nonfiction, Old South, puns, vintage photos
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“The Wrong House” by Carol McD. Wallace
“The Wrong House” by Carol McD. Wallace 1993 Carol Wallace writes one of the best book blogs out there, Book Group of One, which has introduced me to authors I never would have met otherwise, i.e. Angela Thirkell and Eva Ibbotson. … Continue reading
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Tagged carol wallace, downton abbey, fiction, Ibbotson, leaving van gogh, Thirkell
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“The Power of the Dog” by Thomas Savage
If there were justice (or better taste) in the literary marketplace, surely one or another of Thomas Savage’s dozen novels would have been topping bestseller lists for the past 30-odd years…. Valerie Sayers, New York Times Book Review ….it is … Continue reading
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Tagged Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain, fiction, homosexuality, The Power of the Dog, Thomas Savage
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The Killiecrankie Book List
Picture the scene: The Scottish Highlands have done their best to flatten sixteen weary hikers who are now recuperating in the warm and gracious dining room of the Killiecrankie House Hotel in Pitlochry. (All of these Scottish names benefit from a wee roll … Continue reading
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Tagged book club, fiction, Killiecrankie, nonfiction, Pitlochry, Scotland
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