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Apr.23.2009
While I generally write haiku, for once, I didn't. I composed this poem a year ago; it seemed to work for Earth Day. Like my fake review (to be posted on April 1), it is being posted a day late as my posting yesterday went awry (ever have your computer glitch up at the last moment?). Regardless...
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Apr.21.2009
I am so excited. I just received an email alert from Bookcrossing.com. One of my "babies" has been caught and journaled. Not only that, but the anonymous person who found it plans on passing it on as he knew he didn't have time to read it (this is the time for finals for many students...
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Apr.19.2009
A little over a year ago, I was asked to join a book reading group by a library associate. The leader of the group, the aforementioned associate, was starting a new group and was intimidated by the thought of running it. Since she knew me, she asked me to "help" by being there. ...
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Apr.17.2009
Having finished the other book, Enlightenment for Idiots, here's my take on it.
Enlightenment for Idiots
Anne Cushman
Shay Areheart Books, 2008
ISBN: 978-0-307-38164-4, 371 pages
After breaking up (once again) with her boyfriend Matt, Amanda, an unfocused, twenty-something "yogini-wannabe...
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Apr.16.2009
An earlier blog post, I mentioned bookcrossing. For those of you unaware of the concept, people all across the world leave books for others to find, read, possibly journal on a website set up for that, and then pass on to others. By going to the site, you can follow the books you've released, at...
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Apr.14.2009
I'm a pharmacist and, for the most part, I like being a pharmacist and enjoy what I do. There are times...well, I'm not going to go there; that is not the point of this entry.
Actually, what I was contemplating was the kind of job that would be constantly stimulating and yet be fun at the same...
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Apr.11.2009
The arts always have it difficult during downturns in the economy, There was a feature on The News Hour last night about Dayton, Ohio and the arts and the struggle to survive. I lived in the Dayton area for many years and thus, found it be an interesting piece. Although Dayton doesn't have the...
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Apr.10.2009
Last night I finished Joshua Corin's debut novel, Nuclear Winter Wonderland, published by an independent press, Kunati Press.
I'll be honest I picked it off the shelf at the library for the title since I have read Night Voices by Rob Smith and wondered if there was any similarity. (There wasn't) ...
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Apr.09.2009
This morning the Today show had a piece on the recession and books that sell during recessions. I was surprised, or perhaps not so surprised, to hear that romance novels, especially, sell well during periods of economic downturn. The happy endings, for the most part, are what is needed during...
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Apr.07.2009
Having finished To Kill a Mockingbird, I returned to the library and picked up two new books to read. These two will be read simultaneously with Whoever Fights Monsters (my current read). I have never read either of the authors before, but I made a promise to myself that I would try some...
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Apr.05.2009
Okay, I finished it last night...that is, To Kill a Mockingbird. What more can be said about an American classic! The reality is that I took a while to get engaged in the book (I think the vernacular got to me until I got used to it), but once engaged (about halfway through), I was hooked and...
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Apr.02.2009
Right now in Erie County for the month of April, we are having what is known as an All county read. It is actually part of The Big Read which is sponsored by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The book, as you may have guessed if you have read any of my postings, is Harper Lee's To...
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Mar.31.2009
Having completed the second of the three books I am reading simultaneously, I thought I discuss the book that is so different from Picoult's Change of Heart. Written by Colleen McCullough, this novel follows the adventures/misadventures of the middle Bennet daughter of Jane Austen's Pride and...
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Mar.30.2009
I recently mentioned the three books that I am/have been reading currently. Here is a review of the first that I have finished.
Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult
Atria Books, 2008 447 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0-7434-9674-2
This is classic Picoult! Change of Heart is the story of a...
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Mar.28.2009
It's March Madness, which means living and breathing college basketball for many people. Everyone is watching the college teams as they make their way to the Final Four. I must admit that I have only once participated in filling in the brackets and watching as my teams got knocked out of...
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About Nancy
A pharmacist by profession, a haiku poet by nature, I read and write. I have a book of haiku, Ohayo haiku, am working on another somewhat alternative haiku book, but write other genres. I also read...lots of novels! My favorite is, and...
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