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Bish Denham

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Influences

Member Since
July 2011


Bish Denham, whose mother’s side of the family has been in the Caribbean for over one hundred years, was raised in the U. S. Virgin Islands. She still has lots of family living there whom she visits regularly.

She says, “Growing up in the islands was like living inside a history book. Columbus named the islands, Sir Francis Drake sailed through the area, and Alexander Hamilton was raised on St. Croix. The ruins of hundreds of sugar plantations, built with the sweat and blood of slave labor, litter the islands. Then there were the pirates who plied the waters. It is within this atmosphere of wonder and mystery, that I grew up. Life for me was magical, and through my writing I hope to pass on some of that magic.”

She has had stories published i
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Average rating: 4.57 · 72 ratings · 40 reviews · 8 distinct works
Voyagers: The Third Ghost

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Time for a Change

I am suspending this blog for an indefinite period of time. 

I don't get to other blogs and read what's going on with all of you and that in itself seems unfair. I can't expect people to come to my blog if I don't go to theirs. I'm such a slow reader that I have to dedicate a whole day to visiting blogs. So, the basic reason for my terrible lack in participation is that I simply don't have the

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Eve's Diary by Mark Twain
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Somewhat humorous, but not his best. However one must consider this was written just a year after his beloved wife, Olivia, had died. Thus the last line, “Wheresoever she was, there was Eden”, makes perfect sense. His missed his wife, her curiosity, ...more
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Penguin Island by Anatole France
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Social satire of this type probably began with an Irish cleric, one named Jonathon Swift (1667-1745) who wrote the incomparable Gulliver's Travels.

He was followed by the masterful French wordsmith, Voltaire (1694-1778) author of Candide. I wonder if
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At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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I had to take into account when it was written (1914), or I might say this was quite dated and didn’t age well. Once again a male dominate story except for the Mahars, the dominant (evil) race of reptilian females. (Eye roll)

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Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
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Four stars for effort. I would never have gotten through if I had tried to read it. Thank goodness for audiobooks! The narrator (a man) did a most excellent job. Considering when it was written/published in 1722, this is an amazingly honest look at h ...more
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Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
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A good book if you need a place to start in learning about Zen and meditation.
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The Road (1907). By by Jack London
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Wow. This is about memoir, an autobiography about London’s life on the road between the ages of about 16 to 20. The amount of living and adventure he packed into his mere 40 years of life is astonishing.

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“Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.”
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