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Category Archives: Ruminations
Experienced Writer Erica Jong Tells It Like It Is
Enlivening me this morning is this talk by Erica Jong in February at the PEN World Voices Festival. Jong presents five rules for writing that she has learned during the course of her life. It makes for enjoyable and instructive … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Authors, Ruminations, Writing
Tagged do what you love, Erica Jong, rules for writing
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Post-holidays Greeting
Happy New Year 2015! So here it is, ten days into 2015, and I just noticed that my last blog post was in October 2014. Wha? Guess I’ve been caught up in the lure of speed with the Yours In … Continue reading
Posted in Ruminations, Writing
Tagged Ferris wheel, new year's eve, new year's resolutions, traveling carnival
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Can’t We Please Play Nice?
Is it okay for reviewers to use pseudonyms as authors do? Prior to a recent upset making book news, I’d have said no, thinking reviewers should be willing to stand behind their comments or not make them at all. But … Continue reading
Posted in In the Headlines, Ruminations
Tagged angry author, book reviewing, pseudonyms
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My Pinterest Boards
What I love about Pinterest is its hit-or-miss attitude. There’s no pressure to pin on any schedule or with any intention of finding closure. It’s an option that accommodates spur-of-the-moment captures as well as planned collections. The latter are sometimes … Continue reading
Yikes – Two Months without Posting
I would be ashamed of myself, except the main reason for my absence is that I was writing/revising/reading toward a better manuscript. No excuse, you say? You’re probably right. But I’m still on the blog-learning curve. I find that my … Continue reading
Posted in About the Blog, Ruminations, Writing
Tagged blog versus facebook, blog versus twitter, getting critiqued, Pitch Wars
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Really? No One’s Talking about How Tom Clancy Died?
This may be practically unheard of, you know? How did Tom Clancy die? Why is the public being kept ignorant on this one? I’ve already read a couple tweets suggesting conspiracy. That would be in keeping with his books, of … Continue reading
“Loneliness is not much written about.”
So said Stephen Fry (actor, writer, and more) in a June 24 excellent post on his suicide attempt last year. Intrigued by his statement that loneliness is not much written about, I did a quick run-through in my own mind … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Authors, Ruminations, Writing
Tagged A Fine and Private Place, Boo Radley, Dave Pell, Ernest Hemingway, Harper Lee, Laura Hillenbrand, loneliness in books, Michael Cunningham, NextDraft, Peter S. Beagle, Stephen Fry, Steve Martin, The Company of Myself, The Hours, The Sun Also Rises, To Kill a Mockingbird, Unbroken
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Friends and Strangers Can Get People Talking to Each Other
Hubby and I were treated Sunday night to a delightful home-cooked dinner at our friend Anne’s friends Bonnie and Ron’s home—in a heretofore unexplored (by us) location. Our Garmin failed us as we neared their residence, and our sense of … Continue reading
The Book Review Section That Stumped Me Too Much
Every now and then–and it’s not difficult–I like to make other people feel smarter than me (or should that be, “than I” [do]? Too formal even for grammarians these days?). Anyway, I was happily reading along in the New York … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Authors, In the Headlines, Ruminations, Writing
Tagged Abbe Smith, Cynthia Ozick, Fiona Maazel, Just Kids, looking up words, Louisa Thomas, Major Jackson, Middle C, New York Times Book Review, Parul Sehgal, Patti Smith, Rachel Kushner, vocabulary words, William Gass, word meaning
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The Future of Books According to Ann at the Dentist’s Office
At the dentist’s office yesterday, Dr. Jenny White’s assistant, Ann, declared that printed books would definitely cease to exist. She may have put a “by year __” on her statement, but I was already lying there with my mouth open … Continue reading
Posted in Ruminations
Tagged assistant Ann, bookstores, future of books, Jenny White, Stephen King
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