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Outside my Literary Comfort Zone
Last night I headed out to the first l meeting of the book club at Words Worth Books, a cool little independent book store downtown Waterloo. I joined for a few reasons, one of which was I wanted to read some stuff that was outside my comfort zone.
The first book that we’ll be reading is [...]
Fables: Thankfully, not for children.
I was hesitant to start this series. I thought the premise - fairytale characters like Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty living a shadowed life in modern day New York - would be too gimmicky and the story would just be one big in-joke.
As it turns out, Willingham never goes for the obvious plot, [...]
chillin’
I’ve started a new story, something along the lines of a forbidden love observed by a god-like being who looks like a muscular Willie Nelson. Contemplating a POV switch as godWillie is turning out a little more creepy and voyeuristic than I would like.
Looking much forward to the return of husband, [...]
the list
In (late) response to dan’s request,
10 Favorite Books, in no particular order other than I thought this arrangement looked pretty:
Watership Down – Richard Adams
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
The Silence of the Lambs – Richard Harris
Out of Africa – Isak Dinesen
The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
The Saga of Eric the Viking – Terry Jones
Eleanor [...]
Square peg, slightly-rectangular hole.
Went back to work today. Reabsorbed by busyness within 10 minutes of arrival. Besides that, in the past few days, Dan and I have been reorganizing our
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