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Terry Perrel

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TERRY PERREL lives with her husband and dog near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia Beach, VA. She is the recipient of a B.S. in Journalism from Ohio State University, an MFA in creative writing from Old Dominion University and fellowships from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Cooley & Rose is her debut novel. Her second, The Wyatt Sisters’ Song of Love, will be published in 2020. To learn more, visit www.terryperrel.com or http://terryperrel.wordpress.com/. (Headshot by Steve Budman.) ...more

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Cistus Icannus Tea Revisited — A Post for Those with Lyme and Co-Infections

A year ago I wrote about drinking cistus icanus tea in order to rid my body of a form of bartonella, one of the co-infections that often show up in people with Lyme Disease. Every morning for three months I drank most of a cup of this tea. I say most because some mornings, drinking it made me too nauseous to get all of it down. Other days I had no problems at all.

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The Other Language

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Quantum and Non-Quantum States of the Lord Jesus Christ

by Vincent J. Speckhart

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Terry Perrel said: " Not the easiest of reads but a courageous one that offers a thoughtful and scientific view of Christianity. Anyone who doubts the authenticity of traditional lore might want to read this. If your background is not science, I suggest you start with th ...more "

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Tenth of December

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“But what can be learned from trivia? A history of inventions reveals we made the gun silencer (1908) before air conditioning (1911), the kaleidoscope (1817) before Braille printing (1829), cocaine (1860) before penicillin (1929). It's a story about pleasure before usefulness, about ingenuity in killing before improving our everyday lives."
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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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Mar 12, 2011 07:51AM

Naomi wrote: "Thanks for accepting my friend request!"

Sure! I look forward to reading your reviews.

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Mar 12, 2011 07:41AM

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Nov 18, 2010 04:09PM

Sidney adores Tony Hillerman's books, which are literate mysteries set in New Mexico. I've got Ron Hansen's Desperadoes in my to-read stack. Have you read all of Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Valerie Sayers, the early books of James Wilcox, short stories by Tim Gautreaux? Although her work isn't included in the parameters you listed, I think you'd like Laurie Colwin. Have you read Edward P. Jones's The Known World? It's an amazing story told in an oral tradition. It's one of my all-time favorites. Like Lonesome Dove, you've got to give it some time and then, bang, you're caught in that world and hate to see the last page come. Did you read that book I brought to your house for you and Elizabeth to read? I'll keep thinking. . .

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message 1: by Tina

Nov 16, 2010 01:16PM

I need more book recommendations! I like Western setting, Scotland, modern day or historical but not the lusty romance genre in particular (boring normally). Lonesome Dove was wonderful, The Work of Wolves also good, but I also liked Outlander (the whole series) in spite of it's deep and horrible flaws. Oh, the South.
I've robbed what you've got here so far.
Any ideas?

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