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C.A. Simonsen
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Canada
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Cormac McCarthy, Robertson Davies, A. C. Doyle, Michael Crummey
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January 2020
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Fountaineville
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The Wagoner
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Fountainville
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Language Getting Shorter
Here are more for you (mostly pilfered by listening to my students)...
1. Lending library - library
2. Artisan - artist
3. Renovations - renos
4. Bicycle - bike
5. Charisma - ris/riz
6. Walking stick - cane
7. Merchandise - merch
8. Vacation - vay-cay
9. Sirrah - Sir
10. Representative/Reputation - Rep
11. Preparation - Prep
12. Mathematics - math Read more of this blog post »
1. Lending library - library
2. Artisan - artist
3. Renovations - renos
4. Bicycle - bike
5. Charisma - ris/riz
6. Walking stick - cane
7. Merchandise - merch
8. Vacation - vay-cay
9. Sirrah - Sir
10. Representative/Reputation - Rep
11. Preparation - Prep
12. Mathematics - math Read more of this blog post »
C.A.’s Recent Updates
"With her 2025 middle grade novel Schooled Jamie Sumner’s storyline depicts how main protagonist and first person narrator, how eleven year old Lenny Syms and his Latin professor father (whose first name is Benjamin) have moved from New Jersey to the "
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"I was looking forward to reading Charis Cotter's 2009 picture book A World Full of Ghosts (which I noticed on Open Library while I was reading her absolutely lovely, absolutely brilliant The Ferryland Visitor: A mysterious tale) but to be honest, bot"
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C.A. Simonsen
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Matt's review
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Naked Ambition (The NAKED City Series Book 1):
"I thoroughly enjoy political thrillers, especially when they tackle things from unique angles. Rick Pullen does just that in his series debut, which keeps the action high from the opening pages. A corrupt politician and a dedicated journalist who wan"
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C.A. Simonsen
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Clif Hostetler's review
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Aging Out: An Exploration of Caregiving, Community, and How Americans Grow Old:
"This is a memoir by an author who is a thirty-something from the millennial generation who is keenly observing the consequences of growing old, and the variety of ways older people are treated and cared for. She has recently experienced the death of "
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Another exciting chapter in the Gabriel Allon spy series. This time around, Gabriel and company are hunting an ISIS terrorist named Saladin, and the entire second half of the story is exhilarating. By book seventeen, Daniel Silva has created quite a l ...more |
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“Let's hang the turd, called an ugly thug from the gallery...”
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“We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.”
― Boston Marriage
― Boston Marriage
“I've been carving you to see what form you take. You were hiding in ivory. I just wanted to free your shape.”
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“Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.”
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“Oh, yes, there was a witch; there are always witches where there are children.”
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