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Author Archives: Meredith Ann Rutter
What’s Your Life-Changing Book?
It was Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams that set Salvadore Dali on his life-changing path when he read it in 1925 while attending art school. I learned this from one of the instructional plaques in the Salvadore Dali Museum … Continue reading
Hashtag #1book140
I was tweeting (on Twitter) today and clicked on the hashtag #1book140 to see what it was about. Have you heard of it? I hadn’t. It’s a tweet that gives a book review in 140 characters or less. Of course, … Continue reading
Posted in Book Readers
Tagged #1book140, book review, hashtag, Stephen King, tweet, Twitter, Under the Dome
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Good Feelings from Groups
Funny the stories that stick with you over the years. Have any of you read West of Eden by Harry Harrison? That’s WEST of Eden. Published by Bantam in 1984, it’s a marvelous piece of science fiction set in the … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Authors, Ruminations
Tagged books, Girl Scouts, groups, Harry Harrison, pods, reunion, science fiction, West of Eden
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Paris Bound
Hubby and I head for Paris tomorrow! It has been the only “place” on my bucket list for years. I’m not promising I won’t feel free to add another “place” upon our return. But for years, it’s been Paris, a … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Authors, Ruminations
Tagged books, bucket list, Cleveland Rutters, cousin, Paris, Paris 2011, Rick Steves, travel
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In the Headlines: Schwarzenegger and Shriver
I should be ashamed of myself. How could I not have thought about books when I heard the latest about Arnold and Maria? Well, thankfully, the L. A. Times did. For a summary, and maybe a book for you, read … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Authors, In the Headlines
Tagged Arnold, books, Dennis Ortman, illegitimate child, infidelity, Joint Custody with A Jerk, Judy Corcoran, Julie A. Ross, Maria, Schwarzenegger, Shriver, Transcending Post-Infidelity Stress Disorder
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Which Literature Grabbed You and Set You on Your Way?
My husband, Gary, said if he hadn’t read Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck) and The Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway) when he was young, he might never, as an adult, have read his other two favorite books so far: The … Continue reading
Posted in Book Readers, Books and Authors
Tagged Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God, books, Charlotte's Web, E. B. White, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, F. H. Burnett, Grapes of Wrath, Joe Coomer, Jonathan Safran Foer, Life of Pi, literature, reading, Steinbeck, Stuart Little, The Secret Garden, Yann Martel
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Book Marketing, Part 1
[Apologies for the drought in postings this past week. I was on the road, and I’m not accomplished enough yet to compose and upload from my smartphone. This will happen one more time in May, but then the summer looms … Continue reading
Posted in Book Publishing or Selling
Tagged author, BEA, Book Expo America, books, marketing, Penguin Young Readers Group, Publishers Lunch Deluxe, publishing, Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye, Whoopie Pie, writer, YA, young adult
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Time Travel for the Imagination
The other day I walked over to the Post Office to mail a copy of my family biography/memoir The Cleveland Rutters to a widowed friend of my deceased parents. I haven’t seen this man for well over forty or even … Continue reading
Posted in Ruminations, Writing
Tagged Cleveland Rutters, family secrets, memoir, time travel, writing
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