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• a toast to 2016!
  on Dec 31, 2015 in holidays January 2016 personal
  “And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been” - Rainer Maria Rilke...
• Holidays 2015
  on Dec 24, 2015 in Christmas December 2015 holidays personal
    may you all have a wonderful one! ...
• Happy Thanksgiving 2015!
  on Nov 25, 2015 in November 2015 personal
  may you all have a wonderful one!
• book blast & blog tours + giveaway: That Girl, Darcy: A Pride and Prejudice Story by James Ramos
  on Nov 13, 2015 in Amazon book tours contemporary fiction giveaways Goodreads I Am A Reader James Ramos Not A Writer November 2015 YA
  That Girl, Darcy A Pride and Prejudice Story by James RamosIT IS A TRUTH UNIVERSALLY ACKNOWLEDGED that geeky guys never get to date the pretty girls with permanent scowls.   To Elliott Bennett, life is simple. It’s all parties, skate...
• 5 - 7 - 5
  on Aug 25, 2015 in August 2015 haiku poetry
  Haiku - "a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world."recently, i was inspired to write some haiku again using images as prompts at a group i belong to at Goodread...
• nostalgic Thursday: remembering the Bobbsey Twins
  on Jun 24, 2015 in adventure children's books classics fiction June 2015 Laura Lee Hope Project Gutenberg
  re you "old" enough to recall Bert and Nan, who were 12 years old, and Flossie and Freddie, who were six? they were the two sets of fraternal twins born to Richard and Mary Bobbsey. today, many of the younger generation of readers are not even a...
• review: Lilliput by Sam Gayton
  on Jun 22, 2015 in Alice Ratterree Amazon ARC BN children's books Edelweiss fiction June 2015 Peachtree Publishers reviews Sam Gayton
  "We feel free when we escape — even if it be but from the frying pan into the fire." - Eric Hofferily of Lilliput was catching pincher crabs on the beach to bring home to her Nana when a giant rises from the sea, snatches her away and takes her to...
• ERC 2015 review: The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
  on Jun 19, 2015 in challenges European Reading Challenge humor June 2015 literature Nikolai Gogol reviews Rose City Reader short stories
  “The nose looked at the Major and frowned a little.” - Nikolai Gogol, The Nosedramatis personae:Ivan Yakovlevitch - barberPrascovia Osipovna - Ivan's wifePlaton Kovalev - Collegiate Assessor; MajorConstableGospoding Nossov - Kovalev's nosePe...
• 03 Book Beginnings: The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
  on Jun 4, 2015 in blog hops Book Beginnings fiction Fridays June 2015 literary memes Nikolai Gogol Rose City Reader short stories
  Book Beginnings takes place every Friday and it is hosted by Gilion Dumas over at Rose City Reader. bloggers share the first sentence (or so) of a book along with initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the...
• poetry and music
  on Jun 3, 2015 in music poetry Robert Frost
  Robert Frost, 1913. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)The Vantage PointRobert Frost, 1874 - 1963If tired of trees I seek again mankind,Well I know where to hie me — in the dawn,To a slope where the cattle keep the lawn.There amid lolling juniper reclined,My...

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