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Writers are hunter-gatherers

“Writers are hunter-gatherers by nature and need. I started early and never quit. All fiction is based on research. We need voices that aren’t ours and experiences we never had. In my case, it’s invariably a young person’s voice that jumpstarts my next novel. Happily, it keeps happening.” —”The Story as Alternative Universe,” by Richard Peck

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Mary Oliver's For I Will Consider My Dog Percy.

Is there no purer love than the love as dog has for its person? This is not Mary Oliver’s Percy but a stand in for all Percys, by the way. https://pixabay.com/users/danicku-32495990/ For I Will Consider My Dog Percy For I will consider my dog Percy. For he was made small but brave of heart. For if he met another dog he would kiss her in kindness. For when he slept he snored only a little.…

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Katie Ledecky and Caitlin Clark. Both Have immense talent and great values.

Daily writing promptName the professional athletes you respect the most and why.View all responses

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Why Books Blow up on Tik Tok?

I enjoy reading books about deep friendships, so A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara seems like a natural fit for me. Despite some lukewarm reviews, like this one from Paste, that suggests its popularity is overblown, A Little Life has hit a chord that resonates with the public. Brittany Deitch of Paste dislikes the author’s writing style and that the author didn’t fully research mental illness…

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Martin Buber

An Animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great languageMartin Buber, I and Thou

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The Log from The Sea of Cortez

An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep The Log From the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck.

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Writers

Great advice from Authorspublish.com.

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End of Story by A.J. Finn

Library Journal listed End of Story as one of the “big books this week” (2/20/24). A.J. Finn is known for his remarkable The Woman in the Window.

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The Perfect Predator

If you love reading about medical breakthroughs, you’ll love this memoir by Steffanie Strathdee. Her husband was the first person in the U.S. to receive phage therapy for his multi-drug resistant infection. None of it would have happened with her grit and determination. A riveting read. View at Medium.com https://medium.com/p/cca1d625e661/edit

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American Innovations

Readers who like stories about odd characters who find themselves in strange situations, will love this new collection by Rivka Galchen.  As strange as the characters are, though, it’s easy to relate to them.Who hasn’t felt what this character in “The Lost Order” feels so keenly? “But one day I woke up and heard myself saying, I am a fork being used to eat cereal. I am not a spoon. I am a fork.…

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The Big Door Prize by M.O. Walsh

In a novel that’s sweetness served up with a side of realism, Walsh explores a small town’s inhabitants desire to live the best version of themselves. When a simple plywood cubicle with the word DNAMIX shows up at Johnson’s grocery story, it causes the good people of Deerfield to behave in outlandish ways. The machine, which does a quick DNA scan, determines if an individual has lived up to his…

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The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay

The Secret of Lost Things is a captivating literary who-done-it. After her mother dies, an eighteen-year-old from Tasmania makes a transformative journey to New York. Rosemary takes a job at the Arcade, a bookstore that sells everything from paperbacks to valuable rare books. At the Arcade she begins her unique education. The Arcade’s employees are each eccentric in their own way. Mr. Pike is…

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Swimming Home by Deborah Levy

“You have to take a chance don’t you? Its like crossing the road with your eyes shut…you don’t know what’s going to happen next.” –Kitty Finch.Nina decides that standing near Kitty “was like being near a cork that had just popped out of a bottle.” Nina thinks Kitty is a wild, adventurous spirit.Jurgen wants to marry Kitty; Madeleine Sheridan is afraid of Kitty and thinks she is “mad.” Joe thinks…

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My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

Set in New York, My Name is Lucy Barton, is a psychological portrait of a woman who has survived a terrible upbringing of cruelty and poverty. At the start of the novel, Lucy, who is temporarily hospitalized, received visits from her mother. Lucy is grateful for the visits and grateful for the doctor who seems to genuinely care for her.  Underneath the mother’s kindness, however, there is an…

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Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone

Spineless by Juli Berwald Spineless is a fascinating memoir about a woman obsessed with jellyfish. Berwald became enamored with the marine life after taking a course in Israel. Once she explored the Red Sea coral, Berwald was hooked. After having children, though, Berwald felt sidelined by her options. Though she faced many obstacles, Berwald’s slippery subject takes her to Italy, Japan, and…

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The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

Like most of St. James’s novels, The Sun Down Motel invokes the supernatural. Strange events have been occurring at the Sun Down Motel since the eighties Carly, who just lost her mother to cancer, decides to find answers to questions her family have been dodging for years–what really happened to her Aunt Viv. The Sun Down Motel looks identical to photographs from the time Carly’s Aunt Viv…