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Apr.28.2013
Lady Lynnet, the Anglo-Saxon heroine of my medieval romantic suspense novel, OUT OF THE DARK, is an inspiration or so readers tell me.
Why?
What they find inspirational is that Lynnet doesn’t make herself into a victim. She acknowledges her limitations due to diminished sight, but she knows her...
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Apr.21.2013
Thirty some years ago when the US was still across the ocean, I left my parents in Israel and travelled with my husband to the US to attend graduate school. Living abroad at that time meant being disconnected from everything that was going on in Israel.
Every week...
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Apr.16.2013
Well, rarely argue against anything which is free (with the possible exception of advice). This is a great way to get readers acquainted with new authors and new work. And if you enjoy and appreciate what you read - then read more. [DE]
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Apr.10.2013
She came closest to being monarchy, so it is only apt that they promise her a funeral no less than Lady Diana’s. Britons are terribly excited about her last rites, and many seem to convey that it is to make sure she is finally buried.
Her death at 87 should have been a regular and, one may...
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Feb.08.2013
It ain't great literature, but ...
In a world with more readers than books, I'm happy to let the concept of good, better, best, great literature take a slide. I have an opinion (and I am - of course - correct) about the scale of "worth" as regards books. But, I am more happy that people ...
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Jan.05.2013
Whenever I visit London and go to the National Gallery or to any other museum, I am thankful to the British government and to the British people for letting me enjoy their treasures for free. I am impressed by their wisdom and civility. For me it means that, without thinking twice, even if I...
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Nov.11.2012
>In 1959 at the height of the cold war Charles Percy Snow (or C.P. Snow as he is better known) delivered the prestigious Rede lecture at Cambridge University The topic of the lecture and its title was “The two cultures and the scientific revolution”. In this lecture, which he based on an earlier...
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Nov.06.2012
“Thank you for flying.”The silver-haired, Mt. Rushmore-profiled airplane captain walked among the few dozen of us in the SFO departure lounge. It was one week after 9/11. The world was still numb from the horror. After days of no flights at all, planes were starting to move, but...
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Oct.25.2012
If 19.6 % Americans believe in “nothing in particular”, it in fact draws attention to US politics within the piety framework.
Forget about separation of religion and state. Can religion survive without a state? Would it be orphaned without patriotic fervour?
I come from a country that is...
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Sep.07.2012
One of the highlights of my writing career (and this is no exaggeration) was the day I saw a teen-aged boy reading the paperback edition of my novel at a bus stop. Happily he exhibited no furtiveness.
Books are to be ever-threatened by visual stimulations (which gives me some pause about "...
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