cemetery | cemetery
Jul.25.2012
photo: The Salvation Army shield, from its Wikipedia page
I had a successful yard sale this past Saturday. I very impulsively decided to have one for many reasons psychological and emotional, but in the end it came down to needing more space in here. I'm fortunate to live in...
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May.23.2012
photo: Book cover from the author's website, www.amandastevens.com
So I'm standing in Stop & Shop, where I buy many of my books these days--which is an issue I'll probably take up with my blog--when I saw this book. Quick to judge a book by its cover, literally and...
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Feb.28.2012
Seth Godin wrote this morning that the Apple store is refusing to carry his new manifesto on education BECAUSE it links to hardcover books sold through Amazon.
Here's the whole story: http://www.thedominoproject.com/2012/02/who-decides.html
It's of interest to me now because I'm preparing my...
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Oct.19.2011
When I was a girl, my family often drove down Widow Susan Road to get to the main highway along the Mohawk River, Route 5, the route that took us to the big stores in Schenectady and Albany. Invariably, one of us- my sister, my father or mother, and sometimes me - would ask: Who was Widow Susan?...
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Sep.24.2011
I have two wonderful chapters in my manuscript Fame's Victim set in this cemetery in Hollywood. And two of the most fun characters who have popped into my head popped up to enhance the event (they are both alive in the novel). I did not know fully of this cemetery's fabled past, and my novel...
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May.10.2011
Corpses, Coffins and Crypts: A History Of Burial by Penny Colman My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Although this book is a Junior Library Guild Selection—meaning that the text is written at a level suitable for children—the chapter headings seemed intriguing (Defining Death, Understanding Death, What...
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Feb.28.2011
Forgotten Faces: A Window Into Our Immigrant Past by Ronald William Horne My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Morbid Curiosity #8 featured a story by sculptor Mary Jo Bole, who worked at the Dedouch Factory learning the techniques they used to create the photographic ceramic plaques that adorn graveyards...
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Feb.27.2011
Stories in Stone: A Field Guide to Cemetery Symbolism and Iconography by Douglas Keister My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I snatched this book off the shelf as soon as my eye landed on it. It has long surprised me that there was no comprehensive dictionary of the symbols found on gravestones. I know the...
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Feb.18.2011
I haven't been blogging much here lately, which is good and bad. I've just turned in the first five chapters of The Dangerous Type to my agent. Now I've started revising the rest of the novel, in case she's interested in representing it. It's exciting work, since I think the novel is really fun...
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