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Jul.24.2012
I woke up this morning feeling odd; I hadn't slept well the night before. It was a combination of the heat and feeling restless. I made the mistake in reading about the killer in Colorado which of course was upsetting. I ate some Fudge Marble ice cream and sat on the couch. I didn't feel like...
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Jul.23.2012
I hit a bad patch this summer when my father needed surgery. He took a while to recover, leaving us both crabby. My friend Gabriel sent me a fb note. Did I know Judy Blume was going to be on the Castro Sunday showing Tiger Eyes, the movie based on her book? Ears perked up. No, Gabriel! Did not know...
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Jul.17.2012
Hey everyone!
Moi is going on a blog tour this week...
Oh, I wish it was this glam. However meeting new book bloggers, writing new blogs, and meeting new people is pretty glam as well. I just wish someone could bring me drinks and there was a pool.
Come see me at these...
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Jul.17.2012
He might've been the only detective that wore saddle shoes. He also was a bargain; he charged twenty five cents a day. His real name was Leroy Brown, making his appearance way before that baddest guy in the whole damned town. But you might know him better by his nickname: Encyclopedia Brown....
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Jul.12.2012
When I was a kid, I used to be scared of the Batman opening. I know that sounds silly but it's true. It was in reruns and I had no idea it was supposed to be funny. I took it very seriously; that there were villians like the Penguin, Catwoman and the Joker lurking around. Since I grew up in the...
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Jul.05.2012
So what I thought was never going to happen did happen yesterday: I saw my YA novel Ella Bella go out there in the world. It was a book I stopped then started again several times, then I went to Mills and it became my senior project. I revised, revised; oh did I mention I revised? Yes, I did. It is...
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Jul.01.2012
I'm on Cheryl Richardson's mailing list and I get something inspirational every week; sometimes it's a quote from a book, sometimes from Richardson's books, but something that when I take time to read it, makes me think. This week she wrote about Nora Ephron's death, but she also remembered an...
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Jun.27.2012
Yesterday I was on a crowded bus, heading towards Powell Street BART. I was coming back from visiting my dad, who is having surgery today. I was checking my news feed when I saw a headline: Nora Ephron dead at 71.
When I first read it I thought no, must be a mistake. But it was confirmed by the...
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Jun.25.2012
So lately I've been glued to my laptop. Not writing a new story, but line editing my young adult novel Ella Bella, which I'm hoping I'll have done in two weeks. Line editing, I must say, is not for sissies. In fact, I think it's giving me more gray hair. But gray hair looks good on me, I tell...
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Jun.24.2012
Armistead Maupin's not San Francisco's native son,, but he might as well be. No one else could capture what it's like to live in such a wonderful city with all its beauty and flaws. From his days writing for the Chronicle, people wanted to read what happened next at 28 Barbury...
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Jun.21.2012
Of course they met at a library; they were both writers. He was a senior and already getting published in magazines. She was two years younger than him and was getting her poetry published on a regular basis. But it was instant attraction for Stephen King and Tabitha Spruce. They both came from...
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Jun.18.2012
He was the cute Beatle. The one that wasn't taken (until later) He was the one that all the girls really liked. John was the smart one, George the quiet one, Paul the cute one. What was Ringo? Ringo was the all around guy, the drummer. But Paul was the non threatening one, the one that was so...
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Jun.17.2012
I was reading Doonesbury this week with Mike Doonesbury's daughter Alex having a family dinner to celebrate her marriage toToggle, a man who suffers from apasia after being wounded in Iraq. Alex's grandmother Joannie gives a toast about how honored she is that Alex is getting married by Reverend...
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Jun.14.2012
Man, wasn't last night amazing! The highs! The lows! The emotional upswings! Oh, you think I'm talking about the Giants game! Silly reader! I'm talking about the new Dallas! I live tweeted the premiere with occasional interuptions from my father ("What do you mean you're not watching the game...
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Jun.13.2012
When I heard that Dallas was coming back, I thought wow. This could be really good or it can really suck. Of course I'm hoping for really good. I also thought gee, do I really want to watch a new version of Dallas? I'm a serious author now. I should be watching PBS and Turner Classic Movies. That...
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About Jennifer
Jennifer Gibbons lives in Lafayette, California. She is the grand prize winner of the Red Room Housewarming contest and one of the winners of the Summer Reading Experience Contest. She is working on a young adult novel and a book of essays.
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Causes Jennifer Gibbons Supports
Gilda's Club, Greenpeace, Rosie's Broadway Kids,Westwind Foster Family Agency, Amber Brown Fund, Linda Duncan Fund for Contra Costa Libraries
Jennifer’s Favorite Books
p>To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
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