Tag: random musings
group name: pageturners
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August 29, 2007 05:45 PM EDT --
http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/wayoflife/08/21/reading.ap/index.html
Interesting piece on CNN that notes the typical American only reads four books a year. It's more if you're female, older or . . . more
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July 21, 2007 11:10 PM EDT --
Brenda met me at one o'clock as I had asked. I was drunk, I’m a good drunk. She was sober, she never drinks.
Despite many attempts I had never been in love in my life. . . . more
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August 13, 2007 12:10 PM EDT --
Novel:
Lisey's Story, Stephen King
The Privilege of the Sword, Ellen Kushner
The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch
The Orphan's Tales: . . . more
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September 14, 2007 12:17 PM EDT --
I sat in my car one morning last week staring at the door to my place of employment. Is this really where I am supposed to be? I contemplated where I so desperately want to be, reaching out . . . more
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October 03, 2007 08:03 PM EDT --
Open and shut,
Open and shut,
Soaring and floating
Undaunted,
And graceful.
Silently gliding,
Rest but a moment,
Then off again,
Hunting,
For nectar of floret.
Beautifully winging, . . . more
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October 13, 2007 06:22 PM EDT --
Strong and sturdy, grey hewn slab,
Cobblestone, slag, gravel and crag,
Bulwark, anchor, silent sentry,
Guardian rampart, safeguards entry,
Selfless, measured, petrified boundary, . . . more
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October 21, 2007 01:51 PM EDT --
Since the first day she spoke the words my daddy , I have been explaining to her who he was, the man I married. Yet by the time those words so innocently rolled off of her tongue that man was . . . more
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August 25, 2007 12:09 AM EDT --
Despite my doubts back in April when I asked if cyberpunk is still relevant, I was curious to see where James R. Strickland’s Looking Glass would leave me. . . . more
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October 14, 2007 09:50 PM EDT --
Stately, sturdy snow capped branches,
Line my neighbor?s empty meadow,
Silent snowfall blows and blanches,
Whites out every hill below,
Hardy pine tree, stands impassive,
Doughty, . . . more
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October 28, 2007 10:46 PM EDT --
I have always loved Halloween, as I imagine most creative people do like those here on Gather. I can't wait for Fall, with the brilliant colors and crisp air, and enjoy planning a new and interesting . . . more
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April 25, 2008 12:45 PM EDT --
Sorry this is late. I read the book and thought that I had written the review. I was looking through my articles and realized that this was not there so I am posting it now. I read this . . . more
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October 11, 2007 09:54 PM EDT --
On a steaming July day,
When the crickets raise their voices in unison,
And the haze of humidity clings in the air,
My footsteps crush the farmers uncut wheat field,
Scattering hungry birds and sleeping . . . more
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August 19, 2007 09:38 PM EDT --
It’s a not well kept secret that a lot of reviewers enjoy reviewing the books they loathe – not even so much out of a sense of vengeance for the hours they wasted reading them, but simply . . . more
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April 05, 2007 11:03 PM EDT --
When William Gibson, who did not, for the record, coin the term cyberpunk (that honor is more correctly, if not definitively, attributed to Bruce . . . more
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August 27, 2007 12:18 AM EDT --
What does speculative fiction look like in a fantastical world?
It’s a problematic question, one that raises issues both of perspective (after all, . . . more
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November 24, 2007 02:35 PM EST --
Hey folks. Since my book, The Book of Harry Potter Trifles, Trivias and Particularities, vol. 1 , comes out next week, I’d thought I’d have a little contest here to win a copy. . . . more
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August 06, 2007 11:57 PM EDT --
Bomb Laos,
Bomb Cambodia,
Bomb the North,
Bomb the South.
More Hueys to strafe villages,
No insurgents can survive.
More napalm for Christmas,
Let’s light up the trees.
. . . more
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September 18, 2007 07:53 AM EDT --
Stumbling out of pure, comforting darkness,
Shocked at a flawed and troubled world,
Innocence set upon, threatened at once,
Bombarded daily with messages of hate,
Confused by brand loyalties,
Idle . . . more
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August 16, 2007 07:23 PM EDT --
My father is a horologist, a person who studies and works with timekeeping devices. For 25 years, he has operated Omnibus Clock shop in Richton Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. He began by repairing . . . more
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October 19, 2007 11:30 PM EDT --
The news coming out of J.K. Rowling’s US book tour finally got interesting with tonight’s Carnegie Hall revelation that Dumbledore was, in fact, gay and in love with Gellert Grindelwald. . . . more
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