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Freedom to imagine anything.
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Crazy Lovebirds
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Strange Courtships: Nine Romantic Stories
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2012
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The Looking Glass
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A Closet Feminist
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She Has Visions
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Woman on the Run
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Spooky & Kooky Tales
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The Art Collection; Three Short Stories
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Love Hurts! 21 Humorous Stories
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Any Excuse for a Party
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My Family Was Like a Russian Novel: poem— out from Plan B
Excited to announce my new poetry chapbook is out from Plan B Press. The book has been shortlisted in several competitions. These poems emerged from my re-reading of the novels of Dostoyevsky during the lockdown— and reognizing so many of the characters in my own family. (“The Idiot” was my dad’s favorite novel…so it figures.)
Thanks so much to the editors of Evening Street Street Review, N Read more of this blog post »
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| Brilliant book, hard to say how it works (it is one long monologue.). One test of interior monologue is how interesting the mind of the narrarator— and in this case, it’s a whirlwind of art history and myth. Skip the afterward (by David Foster Wallac ...more | |
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| Another mystery from this ever-entertaining writer. Two interlinked murder mysteries, very tight— readers of Horowitz will not be surprised to find competitive actors scheming against one another.I didn’t find the motivation for the contemporary murd ...more | |
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| I enjoy epistolary novels, & found this a quick, sweet read. Predictable (for me) but it moved along well despite my knowing exactly where it was heading. (I suspect many readers will. ) As a bonus, the letters like Joan Didion and Larry McMurtry to ...more | |
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“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
― The Song of the Lark
― The Song of the Lark
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Carla,I wonder if you'd be interested in joining The Completists Club? I have a discussion thread for Muriel Spark there. You seem to be a Spark Completist ;-)
Here it is, in case of interest:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...