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Jan.31.2013
Millie looked at the screen in the front of her couch and it read, “When ready to return home, please press the red button.”
She asked, “Is everyone ready to go home?”
Tired little voices from the couches behind her agreed that they were ready to go home. Jasmine said, “I just wish that it wasn’t...
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Jan.31.2013
Bird of Paradise Lost Book tour - - with dates and specific hours and more events to be filled in ...by Andrew Lam on Sunday, December 30, 2012 at 11:11am · PublicFriendsFriends except AcquaintancesOnly MeCustomClose FriendsLowell HighSee all lists...New America...
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Jan.27.2013
Take a look at any bulletin board and you’ll most likely see that it is completely covered. I mean every shred of geography on the cork covered square is plastered with notices. Some papers are even obscured by another flier, making it hard to tell what is being publicized. Some...
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Jan.25.2013
It is that very particular exhilarating feeling, when you find a book so scrumptious and exotic you open it with a whisper and close it with a sigh. You've found this book through no one's urging or description or advertising. You wandered alone, woozy in towering aisles with books stacked...
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Jan.23.2013
Often when I'm immersed in a book I'll think to myself: "This author clearly has nothing but contempt for his/her readers..."
Why else would they permit sloppy syntax, obvious word choices and tuneless scribbling to be released under their name? Writers who aren't willing to work hard to make...
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Jan.23.2013
In Quiet The Power Of Introverts In A World That Can’t Stop Talking, Susan Cain convincingly argues that introverts are the thinkers and the innovators of society. Yet, since the world has become too extrovert, they are undervalued in spite of their contribution to their...
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Jan.22.2013
I'm out of the zone I experienced, remembering it with fondness, but writing still progresses well.
Some time was spent over the last several days reading blogs, essays, fiction, and interviews with authors. I'd also wandered through used and new book stores. Such places usually...
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Jan.21.2013
Obviously, according to this article http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6987113.stm , it is possible for some people (such as the judges for Man Booker Prize http://www.themanbookerprize.com/ ) to read a full-length novel (I suppose about 50,000 words or 200 pages) per day every day for a...
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Jan.14.2013
Announcing a staged reading ofSILENCE, WITTGENSTEIN!a two-act comedy by Bill Broder Monday, February 4, 20137:00 pmThe Tides TheatreUpstairs at 533 Sutter Street San FranciscoCourtesy of San Francisco Bay Area Footlights SeriesThe Dramatists Guild of America
We need an audience, so...
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Jan.11.2013
The door to the instant travel machine closed, a red light flashed once and then the door opened again, instantly…
As the door opened, a weird red light flooded the compartment from outside and a wispy red fog blew into the doorway and filled the little chamber. Everyone’s eyes were staring at the...
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