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Friday, November 20, 2015

Happy Weekend! May you find a good book and a cozy spot to read.


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A member of SCBWI. Contributor to @TheKidliterati ~ Mother of teens. I can be found during daylight hours writing in the basement of a jazz club. When there's time to play, I sing and write songs or paint with watercolors and pretend I never have to grow up.
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The Great Gatsby
5 of 5 stars true
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
5 of 5 stars true
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
by Lynne Truss
Artfully amusing, and easy to reinterpret into my writing work.
Timequake
4 of 5 stars true
Timequake
by Kurt Vonnegut
Loved it! Found it synchronistic, to what was going on around me at the time... fun and weird. (good weird)
Graceling
5 of 5 stars true
Graceling
by Kristin Cashore
Island of the Blue Dolphins
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
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