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• Happy Halloween! Ghost House by Robert Frost

  

  Ghost House by Robert FrostI dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago, And left no trace but the cellar walls, And a cellar in which the... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• It Does Not Really Exist Until It Is Put Into Words

  

  I’ve been thinking about my journals lately, about how long before I began putting words to keyboard I would put them to paper. Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• There Once Lived A Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back In by...

  

  I used to glorify Russia, having never visited there. But I pictured the snow in sparkling white crystals, with troikas skimming over the surface, as if Russia... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• What The Lady Wants by Renee Rosen

  

  The story of Marshall Field’s phenomenal success, and adulterous affair, is given to us through the eyes of his mistress in this work of historical fiction. Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Sunday Salon: Post Read-a-thon Thoughts

  

  Because it was my most successful read-a-thon ever, and I went to bed at 3:15 for the first time since college, I didn’t go to church this morning. Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• 24 Read-a-thon Update #3

  

  The slippers are on, the husband’s gone to bed, and Samantha the kitty was just climbing up to read with me when I tried to snap her blurry picture. Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• 24 Hour Read-a-thon Update #2

  

  Hours read: threeHours for the discussion of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn led by me: twoHours taken in walking through the autumn trees: oneHere’s to... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• 24 Hour Read-a-Thon Update #1: “Give The Lady What She Wants”

  

  Those words have more to do with a very famous man in Chicago’s history than they do with the read-a-thon taking place today.For before Macy’s became a poor... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Eagerly Anticipating The 24 Hour Read-a-thon

  

  I could begin with Book Three of The Century of Giants trilogy by Ken Follett, which Dutton sent me to review before its publication on Sepetmber 16, 2014…Or,... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• An Inquiry Into Love and Death by Simone St. James (And, While We’re At It, Let’...

  

  “Well,” I thought to myself as I opened this novel, “I don’t usually read Gothic literature.”  But then I found myself enjoying the eerie escape on a cold,... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Thoughts On A Quiet Sunday Evening

  

  If you’re on Twitter at all, even once every other day would be more than I, you’ll see all kinds of new tweets from me. Only, they’re incorrect. Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• BBC National Short Story Award

  

  How I would have loved to attend the ceremony for the BBC National Short Story Award. When I received the invitation earlier in September, my husband and I... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• First Impressions by Charlie Lovett (and Give-away)

  

  …I cannot help but be reminded of the dangers that befall those who succumb to their first impressions.Sometimes, first impressions can be a good thing. Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• To Rise Again At A Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris

  

  I had to read this book when I saw that it was one of the contenders for the Man Booker Prize, by an American author no less. The first thing I did to this... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Sunday Salon: Sitting With A Simple Scone…

  

  and a cup of coffee as my husband prepares for church. I am simply too tired this morning, to stand as a greeter in the main door facing the crush of people... Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Coloring Animal Mandalas: 30 Hypnotically-Beautiful, Mystical Wildlife Designs

  

  “From the Sanskrit word for “circle,” mandalas have been used for meditation and healing for thousands of years. Coloring Animal Mandalas adds the beauty of... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Black Cat by Edgar Allen Poe

  

  Who but Edgar could take the lovely feline found in so many cozy homes and turn it into a thing of horror? The narrator of  this story relates how he and his... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Salvation of a Saint by Keigo Higashino

  

  “From a cup of coffee what dreams may bloom…” I have just finished Keigo Higashino’s Salvation of a Saint, the first book of September to have caught my interes... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Incandescente

  

  “O Adolescence, O Adolescence I wince before thine incandescence… When anxious elders swarm about Crying “Where are you going?”, thou answerest “out,” …Strewn! Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Discussion for Haruki Murakami’s Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of...

  

  As promised, I am posting the questions Random House gave us for the purpose of discussing Haruki Murakami’s latest book, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE