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An Enjoyable Page Turner is Tremendous Fun
“She gripped the rubber bulb with her left hand and heard a slight crackle as light tripped through the one hundred and twenty light bulbs on her dress and the fifty in her diadem. It was as if a firework had been set off in the mirrored ballroom. “As she turned round slowly she was…
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Dickens and Daughter
I had my week all planned, but my mother has been ill, and I have been with her. Thankfully, she is much better, so I’m back home, it’s catch-up time on the computer, and I’m posting a piece I was going to do on Tuesday as part of a Dickens tribute. I’m hoping to re-read…
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Tigers, Dragons – and Cannibalism
“I was born twice. First in a wooden room that jutted out over the black water of the Thames, and then again eight years later in the Highway, when the tiger took me in his mouth and everything truly began.” If that’s not a first paragraph to entice you into a novel, I don’t know…
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Looking Back and Stretching Ahead
Well, Christmas is over and another year has begun, so it’s time to review the last 12 months and make resolutions for the future. Looking back, it’s taken me a while to get the blog up and running, in a format that I’m more or less pleased with, but I’ve enjoyed reading, writing, and exploring…
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Abandoning Baking for Books
Imagine a travelling bookshop: a horse-drawn caravan where the outer walls fold down to reveal shelves lined with books. Imagine the owner: a little man with a red beard, a bald head, and a missionary zeal to bring his own love of reading to American farmers. Now imagine a woman: a large, practical, homely woman,…
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