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Sheila Balls
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in North Bay Ontario, Canada
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anne lamott garrison keillor
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Hold hands and move forward
Towards morning but still fully dark I am wakened by the soft pad of a cat stepping carefully across the bed to look into my face: “Are you awake?”
I used to write then, up at the lake, those nights I could not sleep, but it has been a long time since I felt like writing through the dark hours . . . maybe because of the “dark hours” we have gone through in our own life.
In those years we lived in Read more of this blog post »
I used to write then, up at the lake, those nights I could not sleep, but it has been a long time since I felt like writing through the dark hours . . . maybe because of the “dark hours” we have gone through in our own life.
In those years we lived in Read more of this blog post »
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All Right So Far
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Somebody Move the Cat!
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2003
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Our Side of the Fence: Tales from the Not-So-Deep Woods
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Our Side of the Fence
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Walk This Way
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Sheila’s Recent Updates
"The Piano Teacher of Montparnasse
by Heather Morris Based on real people and real events (some closely based, some very loosely based), this story is a heartbreaker. Because of all my historical and historical fiction reading, I've very familiar with t" Read more of this review » |
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| Science teacher, Ryland Grace wakes from a coma to find he is humanity’s only hope for survival when all life dependent on the sun’s energy is threatened. Much of this novel is science based. I understood very little of that. What I did understand wa ...more | |
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"Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary gives us the story in several timelines. It starts with Ryland Grace waking up in a room, tubes and lines running from his body, mind groggy and memory slow to return. In fact, it's like he has amnesia" Read more of this review » |
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"What’s scarier than waking up naked with tubes and wires all over (and in) you and no idea who you are, where you are, or what two plus two might be? How about gradually remembering that you’re on a spaceship trying to find a solution to a threat tha"
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I agree with you Marilyn. If I don’t care about the characters I’m not likely to enjoy the book.
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| Emily, daughter of two nuclear scientists, is a chronic underachiever. A meltdown at the plant creates chaos during which she goes on the run. Her poor decision-making leaves her homeless and stealing to survive. Over the next several months Emily‘s ...more | |
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Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands (Vintage Contemporaries):
"Emily is by all standards a brat. She receives much from her parents, and she gives little or nothing in return. Except, of course, a nasty, bad mouth attitude that doesn't quit. She does not apply herself in school, though teachers note to her paren"
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“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
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“Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.”
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“No story sits by itself. Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“If thou of fortune be bereft,
and in thy store there be but left
two loaves, sell one, and with the
dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.”
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and in thy store there be but left
two loaves, sell one, and with the
dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.”
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