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Carol Bodensteiner
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Carol Bodensteiner, BA, MA, is the author of the memoir Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl (Rising Sun Press, 2008). Go Away Home, her WWI-era novel published in 2014 is the 2014 Readers' Favorite SILVER MEDAL winner in the Historical Fiction-Personage category.
She and her husband enjoy an acreage where Carol has more hostas than she can count and where the prairie patch she planted provides daily inspiration and delight. ...more
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Poems are a declaration of hope
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“Poems are a declaration of hope in language” – Maya Chung
voices echo, beckon, come; even
tree frogs sing, cicadae’s fiddle, coyotes howl. If
we but sit quietly, listen attentively, though we
believe it’s just noise, that it’s nothing that we can’t
resist, knowing the mind-numbing, soul crushing pull
of insidious arguments, slip the shackles, shrug negativity off
accept possibi
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“This land of my childhood releases sweet, long forgotten memories and brings me back home. Home to the farm. Home to my family. Home. ”
― Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl
― Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl
“Blarney Stones—chocolate cake cut into squares, dipped in powdered sugar frosting, rolled in crushed peanuts and then frozen. Stella was known for her fancy cookies–crispy, spritz butter cookies or thumb print cookies topped with jam”
― Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl
― Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl
“Settling the record on the turntable, I wound the crank on the side of the console”
― Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl
― Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl
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Dave, I'm reading Big Sky because the author was the uncle of a woman in my book club. My favorite books about the 'old west' are One Thousand White Women and The All True Travels and Adventures of Miss Liddy Newton. One of my favorite writers overall is Barbara Kingsolver. I read everything she writes. I agree about getting the facts right.
Hey, Carol, thanks for the add. By the way, I have written authors after reading their work. Usually, it's a fan letter. Once, it was as a non-fan, since the author didn't have his facts right, and wrote a crappy ending. Crappy ending, okay, that's their choice, but not getting the facts of the weaponry right, well that's not. I work hard to make sure all my facts are right, they should too. It's not like they can't get on the web and search things out. My favorite writer... well that's a toss up, but there are a few I still read every time they put something out, Evanovich is one, and Larry Block is another. Also the JD ROBB books of Nora Roberts, though I can't go the stuff she writes under he own name. You might like Aimee and David Thurlo, they generally write about Native Americans in today's world. The Ella Clah series is great. So is JA Jance's Joanna Brady series, or her staple, JP Beaumont.
