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Continue reading →: The Waltz of Song & Poetry: CHAMBER MUSIC by James JoyceIt is common for well-loved songs to find their inspiration in poetry. Some are written with the goal of being transformed into music, including CHAMBER MUSIC by James Joyce.
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Continue reading →: The Creators of CARMEN: Prosper Mérimée and Georges BizetDepressed by the evident failure of Carmen, Georges Bizet fell victim to depression. It became so stifling that that, when he died in 1875, people speculated that he had taken his own life after the failure of CARMEN.
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Continue reading →: The Writer’s Lifeline: JANE AUSTEN’S BEST FRIEND by Zoe Wheddonknown. She was a comfort to Jane, a source of inspiration, and much-needed comic relief when life became dark. Even as I type this, I can picture Jane Austen gossiping with her best friend about situations that would later wind up in her books. It makes my heart sing!
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Continue reading →: Death at Scarclaw Fell: SIX STORIES by Matt WesolowskiMatt Wesolowski’s Six Stories follows this premise. It is the written transcript of Scott King’s podcast. Scott’s goal is to rake up old graves. He takes cold cases and looks at them again, but not as a detective or reporter.
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Continue reading →: Top Three Books – Week 2For example, I hadn’t in the past enjoyed any mystery books. Now I’ve done some research and am excited to give the genre a second chance. I can find the hook in a mystery novel–if it is well written!
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Continue reading →: Evils We Seek: NORTHANGER ABBEY by Jane AustenJane Austen knew that people become addicted to the thrill of fiction. She was more clever than Pride and Prejudice; she understood humans and how they behave. Northanger Abbey was more relatable to me than Pride and Prejudice.
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Continue reading →: Across The Wall: THE WARSAW ORPHAN by Kelly RimmerThe Warsaw Orphan made me ill in all of the ways that a good book should. Descriptions of dying, starving, homeless people waiting for death to gather them–but worst of all were instances of the soldiers’ indifference.
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Continue reading →: Top Three Books – Week 1Reading an average of ten books a month (I’m a fast reader) and not having reviewed them all, I’m going to have a weekly feature called Top Three Books.
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Continue reading →: River of Life: THE SEINE by Elaine SciolinoSciolino paints a different perspective of Paris. This perspective is from the river, that ancient body of water pulsing through Paris like a vein. She has traveled far and wide in search of Seine lore. She’s learned about the river goddess Sequana and experienced a flood during her time in…
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Continue reading →: Classics By Women: NOT JUST JANE by Shelley DeWeesMen and women alike mocked ladies who wanted to write a book. If their tales were indeed written, many were never published. If they were published, most women so feared the condemnation of society that they did not publish with their names. Instead they chose the appellation By a Lady.
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Continue reading →: Paper or eBook? THE STORYTELLING ANIMAL by Jonathan GottschallWe need to remember what a story really is. A story isn’t confined to paper, or an audiobook’s voice, or the screen of your Kindle.
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Continue reading →: Overrated? THE FOUR WINDS by Kristin HannahIgnore the naysayers and read The Four Winds if you want a story packed with drama and a struggle to survive. There are proud moments; there are fearful moments. There are also moments in which you’ll be thankful that you weren’t alive during the Depression.
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Miss Marjorie Brahms, daughter of a mysterious wizard known by the townsfolk as Bamoy, is having a bizarre autumn. Her father, Johann, had reasons for purchasing an abandoned house situated in the middle of a graveyard in which to raise his family. That did not mean that evil spirits could never find them.
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