It's more than four months old, but it's still worth reading...
Sunday, August 22, 2010
It's a...trailer
I'm frankly not sure if this is the way to promote this or not. Yesterday our terrific children's book buyer at Bookshop Santa Cruz pressed this new book by Lane Smith upon me and I immediately pressed it upon a couple more of my coworkers. So I thought I'd go on and recommend it here too, thinking I wouldn't have much more to show than the cover image. However, Macmillan has made this cartoon of it available which gives some sense of the substance. Perhaps it undermines the central point, though, which is that a book is a book and not something else. I have to admit that I heard different voices in my head when I read it to myself, and you might want to go that route too. However, I offer you the choice...
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I was working on a piece for my writing group and looking through photos
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I go to the cinema a lot. This year, I've averaged a trip per week. On top
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*Palestine Wail: Poems*
by Yahia Lababidi
Daraja Press, 2024
reviewed by Seana Graham
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Readers are generally introverts. That doesn’t mean we don’t like other
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I Swam With America!
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On the 4th of July, the usual 6:30 a.m. time for Early Bird Lap Swim was
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A sad farewell
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5 31 2023
Not really THAT sad. This blog has been a good thing for me for quite a few
years. I’ve been blogging here since January 2010 on my writing...
at this point where we pause
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Coming off Jean-Paul Richter last year into Heimito von Doderer’s *The
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Chapter I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND The arrival of an infant surely
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Originally posted on bookbarblog:
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Happy New Year to all my readers! This year begins with two discounts for
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I know, I know, I'm late for Bloomsday, and at this point, I thought you'd
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2113
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Wow, a year since the last post. So, not one mention of 2113.
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Grazie & Arrivederci!
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So that's the end of the Europa Challenge! Thanks to everyone for a great
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It Lives!
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It has been quite a while since I have updated this blog. Some things have
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UNDER CONSTRUCTION ~ OVER DELIGHT
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UNDER CONSTRUCTION ~ OVER DELIGHT
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(published by the Modern Library, $15.00, or from Amazon)
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