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Louella’s 2024 Year in Books
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Louella Bryant
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How I came to write While In Darkness There Is Light
In early spring of 2004, when Howard Dean was running for President, my husband Harry sat on the front porch of our Vermont house with a glass of beer and talked about Howard’s younger brother Charlie. Harry had met Charlie in 1968 when they were students at St. George’s School in Newport, Rhode Island. There were only two hundred students in the boarding school—all boys—and they knew each other w
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| Jann Alexander brings Ruby Lee Becker’s Dust Bowl story to life in her novel Unspoken. This is historical fiction at its best. With a depth of research and flawless writing, Alexander writes of Ruby Lee’s separation from her family with a style almos ...more | |
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| A wonderful read about youthful idealism, its beauty and its tragedy. A cautionary tale for young adults and adults alike. | |
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| I picked up Yagisawa's book at Dublin's Winding Stair Bookshop which I imagine much like the Takako's uncle's shop somewhere in Japan, a cramped space with floor-to-ceiling shelves of books. If you are obsessed about reading, you'll enjoy the neighbo ...more | |
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| In prepping for a two-week trip to Ireland, I picked up Dubliners. Joyce does not disappoint. These stories reminded me of Faulkner's New Orleans stories about quirky characters he encountered there, but Joyce's stories have more depth and more patho ...more | |
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| This debut novel surprised and delighted me. There's a Jane Austin pleasantness to the story about a family with Cherokee roots living in an Oklahoma boarding house. Although McVicker plays down the Cherokee theme and it took a while for tension to a ...more | |
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| After publishing my own novel about the Titanic, I was eager to read The Second Mrs. Astor by Shana Abe. I was not disappointed—who doesn’t love a story of flowery romance? But I missed the depth of drama and conflict. Except for the disapproval of A ...more | |
“May God grant you always a sunbeam to warm you, a moonbeam to charm you, a sheltering Angel so nothing can harm you. And whenever you pray, Heaven to hear you. –Celtic blessing”
― Sheltering Angel: A Novel Based on a True Story of the Titanic
― Sheltering Angel: A Novel Based on a True Story of the Titanic
“Sport,” he said, “is an art.” “Some might disagree with you,” I said. “Sport is akin to war. There are winners and losers. In art, no one loses except those who ignore it.”
― Sheltering Angel: A Novel Based on a True Story of the Titanic
― Sheltering Angel: A Novel Based on a True Story of the Titanic
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
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“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
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As it stands, the humor book genre is ill-defined. Go into the humor section of a book store (or browse Amazon) and you are likely to find joke books ...more
