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Linda Robinson

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Writer/artist living in small town Michigan. I am a feminist, paddler, rebel wannabe, constant reader, recovering wine snob, primary caregiver, and anarchist emeritus.

When I was young, I wanted to be an alien. My brothers think I succeeded.

The first book I could read by myself was "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back." The next book I remember reading was Taylor Caldwell's "Dear and Glorious Physician."

By second grade, I had the thickest glasses in my family. Still do. I read by lamp light, moonlight, flashlight, candlelight and the pilot light in the furnace. Books are as important to my survival as water and dark chocolate.
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Linda Robinson I don't. I have other things I love to do, and if I can't write, I'll do those things instead. I had writer's block for 35 years!
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Linda Robinson There was a closed shop in town that had been vacant and deteriorating for years. I wanted it brought to life. So I did it in fiction! Interesting tha…moreThere was a closed shop in town that had been vacant and deteriorating for years. I wanted it brought to life. So I did it in fiction! Interesting that the shop is now open again, refurbished with a different name.(less)
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Chantepleure

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Caregiver: Finding Your Self

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You May Already Be A Winner!

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The Revolutions
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Victorian England! The cover scared me with the boofed skirt, but this is the fun Victorian England with the table tappers and screers and the aristocracy dabbling in seances and hallucinating for fun and profit behind parlor doors. The characters ar ...more
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The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
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Ugh. There are a few nuggets here, but digging for them is arduous. Because of the mild distaste I experienced reading the book, I took the time (wasted no doubt, in this lexicon) to count quotes. There are plenty. 92 from men, 7 from women, 2 from f ...more
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The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable
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Our violin player prodigy is based on a real woman, which makes this novel historical fiction. Not a favorite genre, but music! and composers! and terrible, horrible, no good orphanages! And Vivaldi! Most of the book features Anna Maria della Pietà a ...more
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If you were not already anxious about the planet and its people, hold on to your butts. Another gobblelicious collection of only the best word choices. Nobody knows how to ratchet up the roller coaster gears better than Penny. She cares for her main ...more
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When the Cranes Fly South by Lisa Ridzén
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Required reading for everyone who hasn't thought enough about end of life. A loving glimpse. The author studies male behavioral patterns in northern Sweden rural communities. Familial relationships, carer responsibilities, and an autopsy of a life (a ...more
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Convoluted plot and deux ex machina drivers. Time is complicated enough without trying to organize time behind a locked door.
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“We email, teleconference, webinar, but we are not in the room with the people. It is a false connectedness - artificial team-building. It's like eating the menu instead of the food.”
Linda Robinson, Chantepleure

“Life lessons cannot be applied topically.”
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“I must catch up to the others, for I am their leader.”
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“If we cannot be fearless, let us be fleet.”
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“Good stories seem to just work, but they are actually made to work by the artfully concealed application of a shitload of time.”
Steven Hall, Maxwell's Demon: A Novel

“Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Know what I say? I say time is a crook.”
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“No fleeting moment can bear the scrutiny that a lone voyager is able to give it.”
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“The Gracehoper was always jigging ajog, hoppy on akkant of his joyicity.”
James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

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Kalliope Linda wrote: "I hope you enjoy the experience. I just read Garden of Evening Mists, too. Such pain and beauty is profound."

Yes. Out of allthe Booker Prize candidates that one seemed to me the most interesting, but I wanted to start with an earlier book. Will let you know about Rain.


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Linda Robinson I hope you enjoy the experience. I just read Garden of Evening Mists, too. Such pain and beauty is profound.


Kalliope Thank you for your Friends request Linda. It seems we share many friends already.

I plan to read The Gift of Rain next. I liked your review.


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Linda Robinson Kris wrote: "Thank you so much for the friend request, Linda! I see we have many interests and books in common. I'm looking forward to great discussions with you. :)"

As am I! Thanks for connecting, Kris.


message 1: by Kris

Kris Thank you so much for the friend request, Linda! I see we have many interests and books in common. I'm looking forward to great discussions with you. :)


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