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Joy Neal Kidney
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Joy Neal Kidney Nails It–Again!
I’m certainly basking in this review of The Immigrant and the Outlaw by online friend Dennis Peterson:
Every family is unique, as are their histories and genealogies. Yet, many families share some interesting similarities, especially if they’ve passed down similar values and priorities.
These facts were reinforced in my mind as I read the stories in the latest book by my friend in Iowa Joy Neal
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"Don't die early. Wait until your children are old enough to appreciate it, and then leave them everything." Plum Johnson makes it possible for both parents, with live-in help, to die in her large childhood home, hers and her brothers'. As they sort t ...more |
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AmeriCANS Who Made America! 20th Century – The American Century
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| What a poignant journey this is of a daughter of Chinese immigrants struggling to learn where she fits in to a new culture. What were her parents' stories and memories, especially when one of them is silent. She discovers some of them through documen ...more | |
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| Patricia Furstenberg has such a gift for creating a setting and characters that pull the reader into a much earlier setting, a foreign and very unsettling time. This short story introduces us to such an uncertainty. A family settles in Transylvania a ...more | |
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"Sometimes, reading a long book takes too much focus and that's when I particularly enjoy collections of short stories. I bought Flights of Fancy by Sally Cronin because its reviews attracted me and I'd already read Sam, A Shaggy Dog Story, which I lo"
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“To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.”
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“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
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“I have seen great beauty of spirit in some who were great sufferers. I have seen men, for the most part, grow better not worse with advancing years, and I have seen the last illness produce treasures of fortitude and meekness from most unpromising subjects.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
“The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.”
― Till We Have Faces
― Till We Have Faces
“Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.”
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