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Eileen Granfors

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Eileen Granfors lived in Los Angeles, California, and has now retired with husband Patrick to the Missouri Ozarks. A former army brat who was born in New Orleans and lived in Germany, she and her family settled in Imperial Beach, California, where her mother’s love of body surfing turned her into an avid surfer girl.

Eileen is a proud UCLA alumna. After a full career of teaching high school, Eileen retired to the writing life. She has four novels and four anthologies in print.

“Stairs of Sand" is the novel I began ten years ago, and all my other work has filtered around it. The plot of a mother and a daughter, both with borderline personalities, is full of conflicts and learning. radition of the Day of the Dead. She i

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Eileen Granfors Benedict and Beatrice in Much Ado. They are so much alike that it takes them forever to figure out not everyone in love is a fake. I adore them.
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Stairs of Sand

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Sydney's Story

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The Pinata-Maker's Daughter

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Flash Warden and Other Stories

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White Sheets

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Respite, Anyone?

A Word in Time to the rescue! If you need a respite from our overwhelming world issues, those are the books I've featured for your TBR.

I had planned choosing books of people taking their own time out from everyday life. Some of the books celebrate this form of respite while other titles will focus on simply getting away.

One of my favorite picks on this week's list is Enchanted April. If you have Read more of this blog post »
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A true story of mass murderer Laurie Dann. This book is set in the 1980s in the swanky neighborhoods surrounding Chicago.

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I like books about schools, especially those that deal with teens. My teaching career was spent mostly at the high school level.

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“Something in the air this morning made me feel like flying. . . "

Spring Flight”
Eileen Granfors, And More White Sheets: An expanded text edition

“California, still a magical vanity fair.”
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“A dog's good for filling a grief-dug hole."
"In the Shape of Shep”
Eileen Granfors, Flash Warden and Other Stories

“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”
Langston Hughes

“Leave someone who hates you as much as you hate yourself.”
Michael J. Bennett

“The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn't know how to ask.”
Pat Conroy, My Losing Season: A Memoir

“Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit?”
Pat Conroy

“I was the only person in the world who thought it was a military duty to appear to be in a good mood.”
Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline

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