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The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco - *Title:* The Name of the Rose *Author:* Umberto Eco *First published:* 1980 *Add it:* Goodreads, The Book Depository This book has been stirring my imagina...
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Gray Days - Seems every day starts out gray, either veiled in fog (liked this morning) or spattering the earth with a fine mist. If I did not know better, I would swea...2 hours ago
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#014 - penumbra - it's a bank holiday. the skies are darker now than when I woke. the rain divides my patio into wet and dry parts. it's grey-green noise, a soggy curtain...
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How About A Root Beer Float? - My friends and I visited the Marc Chagall exhibit at the Musee du Luxembourg as well as the Murano glass exhibit at the Musee Maillol. One nice thing abou...
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Tuesday Poem: "technical difficulties" - technical difficulties defeat the blogger: ten thousand freezing hells! I had intended to post Janis Freegard's poem "Alice Spider Discovers Surrealism" -...5 hours ago
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Weekly Photo Challenge … Escape - Those of us who live in Reading, Berkshire either love the town or hate it, people escape to Reading and many escape from it. We moved here in the early 19...6 hours ago
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After Three Years, John Finally Goes Book Shopping Again - In April, I finally did it. After three years of reading as hard as my Little Engine of a brain could, I knocked my To-Read list down to double digits. D...
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Abha Iyengar's Creative Writing Workshop - https://www.facebook.com/events/484807848256335/484807851589668/?notif_t=event_mall_comment - - May 26 at 10:30am until June 16 at 4:00pm ...7 hours ago
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My Top Ten … Favourite Book Covers (of books I’ve read) - Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and The Bookish. This week we are listing our: Top Ten Favourite Book Covers of Books I’ve Read Thi...8 hours ago
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die Klimaanlage und das Debüt - ... and suddenly, it's too hot to be able to sleep well at night ... so we've switched on the A/C and brought out the new ale of the season to taste ... ...
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Dog Roses - (Rosa canina assisiensis) In one story, the saint feels the urge to abandon monastic life. If only he were a tree, a strip of lettered wood nailed to a cro...8 hours ago
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A Powerful Lesson in Self-Compassion: Are You Allergic to Honey? - *“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” ~Dalai Lama* When things don’t go as planned, is yo...8 hours ago
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Pozole - La Cruz de Huanacaxtle. They have put all these new garbage cans all over La Cruz. I think they are new. I don’t remember them before. They all look like t...10 hours ago
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Sorry no post yesterday - 0230am,Tuesday – just got back from hospital with a mouthful of wadding and a bag of ice (too many anti-coagulents, like happened before) and may have to ...11 hours ago
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The Fall - **** the first bite he succumbs to devil’s food cake licking his lips **** © Wabi Sabi 2013 For Carpe Diem‘devil’14 hours ago
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A Nightmare in the Garden - Spotted this evening, I was too scared to get close enough to photograph these monsters very well, as it is I will probably be awake all night wondering if...15 hours ago
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‘siesta’ #20 May 2013 - siesta emptiness in the heart of the forest . NaHaiWriMo prompt: trees Related Posts‘homemade jam’ #8 May 2013 ‘hot day’ in Moongarlic, issue 0, May 2013...16 hours ago
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Shavuot, Beltane, Pentecost and Whitsun: the evolution of traditions and language - Icon of the Pentecost, Russian, 16th century. “The king stablished all his knights, and gave them that were of lands not rich, he gave them lands, and charge...17 hours ago
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Memorializing through reforestation: the Flight 93 National Memorial - Readers from outside the U.S. may or may not remember, but Flight 93 was the one hijacked commercial flight on September 11, 2001 that failed to reach its ...17 hours ago
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The Week in Translation - GO Lorca in New York: A Celebration: the largest-ever festival in North America celebrating the work of acclaimed Spanish poet and playwright Federico Ga...22 hours ago
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Paris, 2011 - From paris day 1 Latin Quarter flat, October 2011. Note how the stove, shower, and toilet are adjacent to one another. The price was right for one day and ...23 hours ago
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Book Review: I Never Promised You A Goodie Bag by Jennifer Gilbert - *Title:* *I Never Promised You A Goodie Bag* *Author: *Jennifer Gilbert *Publisher:* HarperCollins *Publication Date:* May 15, 2012 *Source: *copy received...
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Saturday, Ocean Creek by Fred D’Aguiar - Sometimes the morning shakes itself from its moorings To this world and lifts skywards with a fighter jet's roar, Everyone lucky enough to be up and ab...
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Island reads: Paradise lost & found - with Mather in New York, with Taylor in China, with Miller in Big Sur & with Maron in Berlin - This blog post is inspired by the "It's Monday! What are you reading?" series, which now finally made me get my island reading notes together. More about t...
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How to love your own book - As I’m recording1 this blog post I realize that I really, really don’t like using this space to relate news, you know, raw information, subjective or objec...1 day ago
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? - I have been beyond swamped lately. Not reading much and definitely not reviewing much at all. Here's hoping life starts to slow down soon because I am abou...1 day ago
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist: A New Politics of ‘Critical Localism’ - While I am yet to watch the film version of The Reluctant Fundamentalist (though I hear great things about it), … Continue reading »1 day ago
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Mailbox Monday - Mailbox Monday May host: Abi @ 4 The Love Of Books Wow, it’s been a month since my last MM post! Guess that’s not to hard to do when you aren’t receiving m...1 day ago
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Weekly Reading With Ironskin - Life is getting in the way of me reading as much as I used to, and I've finally accepted that I'm at about 1 book a week, and that's how it's going to be f...1 day ago
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Keep Calm and Shed On - Day 356 Listening to: Written All Over Your Face Thought for the day: Keep Calm and Shed On I have been thinking about opening up a toupee’ factory for fur...1 day ago
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Sunday Small Stone 55 - I blinked and spent an hour trying to find, again, the angle that let me see only bright green and emerald and pine and evergreen without a gap of gray or ...1 day ago
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Soundbites: Dead or Alive - Title: Dead or Alive Author: Tom Clancy Narrator: Lou Diamond Phillips Rating (Story): ★☆☆☆☆ Rating (Narration):★★★☆☆ I picked Dead or Alive as my first au...1 day ago
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:-) best day of the year ... so far :-) .... - Amazing day and we really dove in as tomorrow the temps are forcasted to drop by 15 C and rain rain rain ;-) ! Sweet dreams :-) ! Love Cath...
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May 19th - My postsecret of the week is this… Because I love the quote “all our loneliness is just1 day ago
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saturday drive - a photo from yesterday afternoon, from a drive along the “Schwäbische Alb” mountain range here in Southern Germany. – this is the same region like in this ...1 day ago
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Self denial - Consciousness, as we’ve noted before, is a most interdisciplinary topic, and besides the neurologists, the philosophers, the AI people, the psychologists a...1 day ago
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Eurovision of books 2013 - what to read from the final - *Eurovision of books* Inspired by the contest, book blogger Winstonsdad - who focuses on translated fiction from all four corners of the world in his blog ...
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Love and Value Yourself! - My number one goal/mission/purpose in life is to encourage women to love themselves and to have good self-esteem and a positive self-image. It sounds so ...
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Principles of Personal Development -- Part One - submitted by downBusinessman [link] [comment]2 days ago
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Love to Travel—Love to Come Home - “Wherever you go, there you are.” ~Jon Kabat-Zinn By now it is probably obvious that I love to travel. But what you might not realize is th...2 days ago
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Saturday Cinema / Book Review ~ Jaws - Like dinosaurs and the solar system, sharks intrigued me at an early age. In fact, I probably watched Jaws (and its sequels) at a too-early age (on TV or v...2 days ago
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Girls Love Travis Walker by Anne Pfeffer (Book Tour and Review) - Virtual Book Tour - April 19 - May 30 April 19 - Reading Addiction Blog Tours - Meet and Greet April 21 - Texas Book Nook - Review April 22...
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The call - This week has been surprising and exhausting. Along with work, it's finals week (I'm taking a break from grading to write this now), and I've been plagued ...2 days ago
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My World: I’m still here! Well, sort of… - The lilacs are once again blooming, bringing into sharp focus the swiftness of Time’s passing from year to year. Another spring – how can that be? Wasn’t i...2 days ago
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The Great Gatsby film review - I may have mentioned before that I’m not a huge fan of The Great Gatsby and am surprised that, when there is so much fantastic American literature in the w...2 days ago
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Dressing to tease? - A letter in yesterday's Daily Telegraph* referred to the cover of the paperback edition of Harlan Coben's Stay Close, saying it had 'absolutely no connection...3 days ago
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Learning the craft, part three - Don’t submit your beloved manuscript too early. This is part three of a three-part series on the major lessons I learned while writing Shepherd: A Memoir, ...3 days ago
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the launch, the book, the recording - The launch of the book was on election night. No one knew which way the election was going to go. We did not know how many people could make it to the laun...3 days ago
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“Why I write” – in Stymie Mag - Some months ago Kari Nguyen, editor in Stymie Magazine, asked “Why do you write?”, for their column with the same … Continue reading »3 days ago
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Looking ahead: FLASH is in the June air… - National Flash Fiction Day is heating up in New Zealand, and INTERnational Flash Fiction Day is well under way as well. So I recommend two big things happe...4 days ago
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Fish in - In other news, I made the shortlist of the "Fish Poetry Prize" - judged by Paul Durcan - after getting two poems on the longlist.4 days ago
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tearing at thoughts - * * * * *tearing at thoughts leaves me feeling exposed*. *Through writing, art and photography I offer snapshots of unnamed lives fading from view. Places ...4 days ago
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Skywatch Friday - Season 6, Episode 45 - Welcome to Skywatch Friday especially to those of you participating for the first time. Your Skywatch Friday hosts are Yogi, Sylvia, and Sandy.4 days ago
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Iridescent Insects: What is Flash Fiction? - I'm over at the Litro blog again today with my second monthly "Guide to Flash Fiction" blog post - I thought this time I'd better try and figure out what f...4 days ago
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5 Lessons in Contentment from Billionaires Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger - By Leo Babauta I sat in a crowd of 45,000 about 10 days ago, watching super-billionaire investors Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger riff off each other and...4 days ago
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Sweet Tooth - The last book for spy week is Sweet Tooth, written allegedly by Ian McEwan. It may be that reading so much about espionage has given me a conspiracy comple...5 days ago
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i’m a year away from now - The man in the gray suit, red tie, walks across the lobby. I can hear his footsteps on the linoleum floor. He’s carrying a plastic grocery sack and sets it...5 days ago
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Do not let Mr Thomas stand around like a lemon - A friend brought this to my attention the other day and it’s so good I thought I’d put it here. It’s a set of guidelines for record store owners/managers t...5 days ago
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Blue Five Notebook – (May 2013 / 13.9) - Blue Five Notebook – (May 2013 / 13.9) Artist, Eleanor Leonne Bennett is an internationally award-winning artist. Her photography has been published in the...6 days ago
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El Vuelo - Somewhere over France a bank of rain cloud, an inverted anvil of grey vapour, rises suddenly and singularly from the otherwise uninterrupted expanse of und...6 days ago
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Shakes Island - Recently I participated in the Shakes Island rededication in my hometown of Wrangell, Alaska. Each of the photos includes a fifty word poem to accompany i...
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Expat Author Interview with Claudia from Expatclic.com - Claudia from Expatclic.com *Claudia is the founder and coordinator of the website Expatclic.com. After having lived in Sudan, Angola, Guinee-Bissau, Congo ...
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A red-letter day - During last year’s epic adventure to read a book from every country in the world, there were a number of pinch-me moments. Sitting in CNN’s London studios ...1 week ago
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A COLD IS NOT A COLD AND TV OVERDOSING IS DANGEROUS - Laid low by that thing called "a cold" which is actually a slap in the face, a kick in the gut, some well-placed punches to nose and throat and a bit of ey...
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Support the writing community! A good friend of mine is up for a... - Support the writing community! A good friend of mine is up for a publishing deal with an amazing poetry press, and part of the criteria is astute use of ...1 week ago
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So you think you have a chapbook; now what? - I’m starting to think about where and how to publish a chapbook, and I thought I would think it through out loud and share what I’m learning. If it helps s...1 week ago
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A Year of Biblical Womanhood by Rachel Held Evans - A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband “Master” by Rachel Held E...1 week ago
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Quinoa Pinto Bean Salad - Once every three or four months, I launch an eat-down in my kitchen. This is when I stop buying more and more food and instead focus on consuming and enjoyin...
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May is Short Story Month - May is *Short Story Month, *and as you likely already know, we love short stories here at Books, Personally. There are many reasons why - I could go on ...
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1384 - thunder – I swerve around boys bigger than the side of the road nahaiwrimo (found)2 weeks ago
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Stranded in Galveston - One time I was stranded in Galveston, abandoned by a friend at a bar when she found a guy to suit her needs. It was Memorial Day weekend, and I was just an...2 weeks ago
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Seeking Guest Blind Judges For Our Summer 2013 Open (July) - Categories: Post | Burning River is currently seeking three (3) guest blind judges for our summer open reading period during the month of July. Submiss...2 weeks ago
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Conversations and Translations - How do you begin a conversation with a stranger in a museum? At the Neue Pinakothek in Munich, in a gallery of sketches and etchings by Johann Christian Re...2 weeks ago
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TOPPS 1959 - by *Garrett Rowlan* On a September night in Los Angeles, 1959, Pittsburgh Pirate pitcher Roy Face lost, and my father fell into the pool. Bill Jones push...2 weeks ago
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third may - I snuggle into my cosy blanket cocoon, quilt covering my ears, peeping out periodically to check the time on my bedside clock. The glow of the digits reass...2 weeks ago
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National Poetry Month: April 30 - Hi friends! It’s the last day of National Poetry Month: BOO! So, today I have selected Mark Doty’s “A Green Crab’s Shell.” I had the great fortune of heari...2 weeks ago
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On The Wires > qarrtsiluni / Animals in the City - They woke me up at the crack of dawn. Looked out my window. Here’s what I (heard and) saw … On the Wires now live at qarrtsiluni in the ‘Animals in the Cit...3 weeks ago
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Vine Leaves No. 6 - The 6th issue of Vine Leaves Lit. Journal is out, this time one of my photos is in it, on page 31. The front and back page are stunning, and there's a cor...
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RaRa on Samantha Brick's Diet - *The story below does not relate to the man in the above picture. Though they do both like pudding.* *I was sheltering from torrential rain in a doorway n...
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Potential for annoyance - What I momentarily took to be a large rising moon (in the wrong place) was a plastic bag caught in the high branches of a tree opposite my window. I know...4 weeks ago
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For Edo, in memoriam - For the first birthday he cannot celebrate … but we can, and will. For Edo.5 weeks ago
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Birthday Bash Poetry Contest Winners - On March 1 (over a month ago) I held a Birthday Bash Poetry Contest in honor of Dr. Seuss. I asked followers (and even non-followers) to write a poem. If y...5 weeks ago
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Book Haul to End All Book Hauls, part 1. (Vlog #2) - Hey guys! I'm back in the blog/vlog-osphere! This is the first of two hauls, where I talk about the physical books I've received in the past months.
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In Descant 160, the Hidden City issue: Vịnh Mốc: Life Underground - I am so pleased to have my piece Vịnh Mốc: Life Underground appear in Descant Magazine’s Hidden City issue. With its beautiful, mysterious photo by Jeremy...1 month ago
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Indie Bookstore of the Day: Bibliohead Bookstore - Today I discovered a great, compact indie bookstore in the Hayes Valley neighborhood of San Francisco, *Bibliohead Bookstore*. I was not in good shape fo...
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Eight Ways to Say No - I barely remembered this as part of my DARE training in 4th grade, but now it seems extremely helpful–particularly with insidious ideologies. (Thanks for r...1 month ago
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Love Lost by Tracy Falbe - Thank you Alchemyofscrawl for allowing me to reveal the fantasy world in Love Lost with your alphabet soup game. A is for Alloi. She is a powerful champion...1 month ago
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The Cats of Morocco - [image: Post image for The Cats of Morocco] If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time you know that I’m a cat person, as are the people wi...1 month ago
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the tao of travel - ‘The Tao of Travel’ is a sampler of travel writing from different authors and times, collected by Paul Theroux. It is also, in part, an appreciation by on...1 month ago
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The Urban Ginko - Reblogged from haikumatters: I envy people who have enough money to travel for a good ginko but sadly I am not one of them. A ginko is a very useful thing....1 month ago
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Call Me By Your Name - An exquisite excerpt from Andre Aciman's brief and beautiful book, 'Call Me By Your Name.' This passage towards the end overturned me: *I imagined being in...1 month ago
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BluePrintReview: walls parallels shadows - editor's note - *the second part of the BluePrintReview in/stances is live!* it's a rather visual part, featuring 3 photo series: - Walls of Hue, Viet Nam by Chris Ga...
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Once Upon a Time VII and Spring Reading Thing 2013 - I know, I know...I can't control myself! But I absolutely must participate in Carl's non-challenges like this one and his *R.I.P.* Plus, I failed so misera...
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Wonder Wednesdays – the Diary of the One Swelling Sea - Not everyone is as lucky as I to live with a direct line of sight to the sea. In the place where I live, you are never far from the sound of the waves, the...2 months ago
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The Theatre of the Dead (III) - My grandfather (left) spent over two and a half decades in the merchant marine. My grandfather passed away two weeks ago. This is th...
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Paranormal Legacy Blog Tour – Caitlin Hensley Guest Post - Please welcome my friend Caitlin Hensley as she shares a little about herself, her inspiration regarding her latest novel, Paranormal Legacy, and how her l...2 months ago
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Wednesday Hodgepodge - March 6, 2013 - After my blogging break I started posting over at my Lind-guistics blog but not here. So today I am joining in on the Wednesday Hodgepodge which is organiz...
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Réinventons l’amour avec Myface Book - Réinventons l'amour avec Myface Book - Performance de Çiğdem y Mirol Monvisage Livre est mon « livre-performance ». Il fait partie d’une structure qui ex...2 months ago
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NEW MEDIA: Breaking Through The Fourth Wall - Technology has given us social networking and social networking has given the audience (of any medium: newspapers, internet, television, telephone, etc.) a...2 months ago
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Sex Industry Apologist #2, and other zines - I launched my new zine Sex Industry Apologist #2 at Sticky Institute a week and a half ago, as part of their Paper City zine festival. A whole bunch of peo...3 months ago
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A workaholic-socialmediaholic (me) takes Tuesday off - *Satya writes:* Yesterday, me & Kaspa took the day off. I have a tendency to work too hard. We've both had several weekends full of worky-things. And so ...
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Photo Flurry - 30 in 30 - Days 18 - 23 - I've decided to limit my photo posts to once a week. I've been really busy and to be honest, I'm more likely to finish this way. So here is the last week of ...
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A Late Walk, Matapouri Track - Concept and Verbalisation - Limited vocabulary poems offer good opportunities for expanding writing skills. When using this technique, concepts involved must be clearly defined within...4 months ago
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viewmasters and earthquakes - Fellow Travelers: I wake up from the semi-hibernation of late December and realize January is well underway. On Friday the 4th, nearing midnight, a 7.5 ear...4 months ago
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Aayuhh, That’s New Hampsha - The Larcom Eclogues: Poems from the Foot of Her Mountains by Brian Scott Kelley My rating: 3 of 5 stars I found this chapbook at an indie bookstore in Cent...4 months ago
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Outline of Fading Empire - In the waning days the old stories do not hold. In the waning days language becomes thin and ghostly. In the waning days none of this registers. I...4 months ago
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Mental Illness Advocacy Challenge 2013 - *Challenge Summary: *I (Opinions of a Wolf) started the Mental Illness Advocacy (MIA) Reading Challenge in December 2010 in an effort to raise awareness, ...
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I joined a challenge or two. - I like to be challenged. I like having a goal to work toward. I love reading. Can you see where this is going? I've signed up for some reading challenges. ...4 months ago
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All the best for 2013! - 2012 has been a great year filled with so many different experiences by which I have been blessed with. Blogging … Continue reading »4 months ago
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The Vorrh, by Brian Catling - I started reading The Vorrh because it gave me the impression it would be some very good fantastic literature. The fact that it was introduced by the usual...5 months ago
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Minnetonka buried water tank - At some point on the small hill that I walked this morning, a water tower was demolished. A sturdier, safer tower was build a few hundred yards away, and t...5 months ago
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34 - The space they are in is years long. Two, they hover on a threshold. One reaches to touch the other. The hand goes through. Waves radiate. The past is...5 months ago
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200 Days of Travel - 199 days ago I waved goodbye to my parents from the lobby of the Hilton Hotel near JFK airport. The following morning, three of my friends and I boarded a ...5 months ago
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#001: achromatic - A word a day diary... an intriguing idea discovered yesterday in a bookshop... but, £10 far too much to pay, for a physical memento, for a stocking fill...
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Hey, it’s only been a year… - Maybe more than a year. But, here is a new blog update, at last and finally. Mostly this is just to say I’m joining the “7 Continents, 7 Billion people, 7...6 months ago
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Highlight: Deniz Utlu in translation - For this special highlight in our final highlight series this month, we have a collection of five “minimals from the … Continue reading »6 months ago
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Shani Boianjiu’s “The People of Forever Are Not Afraid” - It begins, it seems, at 23. You turn over to the back cover of the book you’re reading and find that the author is your age, or not much older. Sure, the w...6 months ago
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Blog Carnival 6: All About Frankfurt - We said Carnival 5: A VIEW FROM HERE was the last Blog Carnival, but when we saw the photos, links and updates from Frankfurt, we knew we had to put togeth...6 months ago
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Top Ten Tuesday (3) - So for this week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by The Broke and Bookish, we have kick ass heroines that we love! Such a fun topic. 1. Kami Glass from Unspoken ...6 months ago
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Kaffe in Katmandu Says Goodbye - It’s been a psychedelic ride with you guys, thank you for all the fun and the faces and so much dada during 2011, but after one year and infinite degrees...6 months ago
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100/2012 Stories - Word Count: 426 I sat there reading the words I typed the previous night. Another late evening into dawn weaving stories of people I don’t even know, mayb...7 months ago
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Low Road - Day 100 The sun shone through the window. A young girl was sitting on a chair listening to her ipod. It was once her mothers. Her father had saved her li...7 months ago
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100/100 For dragon eggs? - Shall we open the door? What story, the old or the new? We have lived so long and so well In our green fable Shall we open the doors? [from ‘Uranium 2’...
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The Next Big Thing - *What is the working title of your book?* 'On the Bitch' *Where did the idea come from for the book?* I needed to get back into writing, so I sent out email...7 months ago
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The Parselmouth and the Goblin: in which supernatural events in Zimbabwe bring me back to blogging - I have been away so long that I actually forgot my blogger site password. But here I am again, on my own. Going down this lonely road I have always known. ...7 months ago
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'Conversations with S. Teri O'Type': an interview with author Christopher Allen - This is the first blog interview I've hosted here and I'm very proud to be able to present Chrostopher Allen and his satirical novel 'Conversations with S. T...8 months ago
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PAGE _ New 10 Part Video - Features top Charlotte Writers! - Watch: Pages, a free 10-part video series with readings by some of Charlotte’s most prominent authors. The Charlotte Video Project captures some of our cit...9 months ago
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inspiring places / coastal - some things transcend language, each providing a universal touchstone of experience. such is the shore, which varies so dramatically from place to place....9 months ago
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The Bathers - The Bathers She is not robed in flame, although the sandbeside her seems to burn in liquid heatof afternoon. Her...10 months ago
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And the winner is... - I am delighted to announce that my poem "The Name" is the winner of the unFold 2012 Poetry Garden Show. Thank you to the judges - William O’Daly, trans...
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eManto : a selected reading, listening, & viewing list - [image: Img_0665] *Works by Saadat Hasan Manto translated into English*: Barren. Published by apublicspace. The Dog of Tetval. Published by Granta. ...1 year ago
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'We Danced the Color' - We danced the color green today amidst the grass, the hay within the cornfields Oh so tall with a dear kiss this spectacle was sealed. We danced...1 year ago
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The YB Blurber - AKA Karla Linn Merrifield. The Dark Touch of Genius In Rebellion, Chris Crittenden writes of “storms in heartbeats.” It’s a suitable metaphor for the poems...1 year ago
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Life Is Interesting In Texas - This is the thing about America: its citizens are too open. This is why I look at them every day and shake my head. I have too much pity for some of them...1 year ago
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New - It's that time of year again when we say goodbye to the old and say hello to the new. This is a favourite time of year from me as it's a chance for me to r...
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Street Scenes - Our street was a desolate, one-way suburban enclave smack in the middle of the town center. Next to it lay the busiest main road at the time, the susurrati...1 year ago
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Protected: Aubade by Walter Bjorkman - There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.1 year ago
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#100/100 Window - This photo was originally published on YB Poetry blog in June 2011. All other photos--the ones taken by me--I've post...1 year ago
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Road Trip - by Diana J. Wynne Mark took a last bite of the apple and threw the core out the window. “Biodegradable,” he said, as it hit the road behind us. Mark ...1 year ago
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Beached - *There is quiet desolation is this place that was once so vital and a monument to the past. * Thoughts are alienated and my mind's pumping ceases words w...1 year ago
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Good Luck Tags - I had just quit my job to come to China and learn Chinese. My mind was an amalgam of worry at the prospect of not having a steady salary for the next few m...2 years ago
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Hibernation - is a sweet thing–concerns darkness, being afraid. A leather building? I have been hibernating in January–just a note to say I haven’t for...2 years ago
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Song Sung Blue - [image: Dong_hoi] *The evening shadows fell over the sea. I stood gazing at the window. The ruins of a church in the distance. Bombed out during a wa...2 years ago
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Of Bitches and Bastards - Okay, so I'm on my own now. There's a lot of stuff I need to learn how to do, and not just home maintenance stuff that used to fall on Dan. I've got al...2 years ago
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Have an honest New Year - We do need a bright start to everything including the New Year, but aping and imitating others may not be the way to do it.2 years ago
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GOD AND LANGUAGE: THE TORAH AS A TEXBOOK FOR WRITERS - Returning to my first post on language, interesting questions come to mind in regard to God as one who creates by word. The assumptions, by the way, ha...2 years ago
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