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Books,Novels

The Year of Magical Thinking

posted on : April 9, 2018 posted by : admin 2 Comments

Bookbabes, I will truly miss the thoughtful discussion of this book. High school in the 60’s for me was living in Japan on an Army base.  The base was the last stop on an hour bus ride and five stops  from the base where I went to high…

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Books,Novels

Bread Givers Review “On the One Hand…But On the Other Hand”

posted on : March 10, 2018 0 Comment

This review is written for my fellow bibliophiles “The Bookbabes” to add to their discussion tonight in Albuquerque of Bread Givers.  There is something incredibly moving about sitting in Poland in my “artist loft” writing while gazing over the view of Old and New World architecture…

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Books,The Grands

The Days of Childhood

posted on : March 4, 2018 0 Comment

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. –Marcel Proust…

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Books,The Grands

Strong is “Definitely” the New Pretty

posted on : February 26, 2018 0 Comment

After a morning of rock climbing with her brother my son took the kids to REI.  This is the book my two year old granddaughter selected.   This is the same granddaughter who has a shirt that says, “I’m not a princess, I’m a scientist&#8221…

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Books,Novels

Another Crime Has Been Committed in Bucolic Scandinavia

posted on : February 25, 2018 0 Comment

In 1976, soon as the school year ended, we drove nonstop from Peoria, Illinois to Seattle, Washington, loaded our truck and ourselves on a ferry and exited at Haines, Alaska–that part of Alaska that looks like it should be part of Canada.  This trip culminated two years of…

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