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Thursday, November 29, 2018
Saturday, October 27, 2018
Book Review: Between Earth and Sky by Amanda Skenandore
I
haven’t written a book review in a long time. I wonder if I remember how. I
guess I’ll give it a go.
This
was Kelly’s pick for my regular book club. She’s new to the group and we told
her, at her first discussion meeting that she was next in line. She jumped in
and picked Between Earth and Sky by Amanda Skenandore. It’s a historical
fiction told in two interlocking stories. The first is in the 1880’s, when Alma
is a girl and her family moves to no-wheres-ville Wisconson so that her father
can start an “experiment” called Stovers School for Indians. Here, Indians learn
the ways of the white man. Alma believes, as all the other white people
believe, that the Stovers school will be the salvation that allows Indians to
discard their savage ways and advance in a world that is righteous and white.
Thursday, October 25, 2018
October Book Club Reads
October isn’t over, yet but my Book Club reads are
close enough to get this post done and done.
Pints and Prose (Greece Public Library)
The
Winter People by Jennifer McMahon. I finished this one in September so it was in
my last wrap up post. It started off pretty strong with a lot of wonderful
feelings of creepiness and dread. But then it ended up meh, in general. I
really liked the writing. There was just a lot going on in it, like the author
was hoping it could cross all the genre lines. The general census in the book
discussion was also meh, because some people loved the hell out of it and two
people put it down without finishing. I’m not planning on reading the November
book but I haven’t decided to abandon this gathering, yet. The group is a little
too large to be really invested though, so it’s the book club I’m most likely
to drop if I have to. I love the cidery, though.
Saturday, October 13, 2018
Readers Imbibing Peril 13 - Book Recs so Far
Usually
in the Fall my reading turns in a more focused way to thrillers and horror. I
actually read them all year around. I also wear skulls and raven jewelry all
year around, too, but it just becomes more concentrated in September with a
slight fading by January.
Anyway,
this year I learned of something called Readers Imbibing Peril from my good
reading buddy Sarah Says Read and figured I’d sign up. I love signing up for things that I already planned to do!
I've read six books so far that I'm going to count, with two in the works. Here’re a couple of good ones I’ve read so far, not
counting A Study in Scarlet Women,
which I talked about in my last summary post and really enjoyed.
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
Writing Prompt - Where I'm From
I did a
writing mini- workshop this morning and really liked this Mad Libs activity using the poem Where I’m From by George Ella Lyons. Figured I’d share mine here. Original below. You can also
check out Lyons’ web page for a massive international project using her poem.
Where I’m From
-
Kenya’s version
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