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ANNOUNCEMENT: POD REVIEWER FOR BREENI BOOKS
Sabrina Williams has reviewed both of my books at Breenibooks, http://breenibooks.blogspot.com/. Her reviews ( see them both at her site) went far beyond what a writer might expect, especially her review of The i Tetralogy. So I responded very recently to her notice about POD reviewers and her open and diverse thinking about publishing on demand in general. Only today I had a blogger in her profile say that she did not accept self-published books. I feel that is narrow-minded, to say the least. Some bloggers, many? few? who knows, are inexpert in writing and in how to write a review, but for some…
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This Day’s Mental Lint
I’ve written on this blog before about this need to read and collect books as if trophies. Specifically, on many blogs there are “challenges,” which means, I gather, to read as many books as possible over a week-end, or a year. The challenges can be focused: mysteries, or an author, thematic tasks. One blogger lists the amount of pages he has read in a year. I flashback to a graduate course in English in which the instructor told us that it took him at least an hour to go through a story or a chapter by Henry Adams, underlining, commenting to himself…
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I Look Around
It sounds biblical, but from out of the whirlpool something speaks to me. Around me stories are being lived. David Herrle has a mother-in-law in the hospital and his wife is distraught…Ben Rapoport in upstate Canaan, New York is aging with his Parkinson’s…My son, Jordan, just left Chicago for New York with his present squeeze for an upstate tour of Canaan, New York where we had a summer home for 14 years. And Jane and I have made plans for a trip to Chicago to see my son upon his return. On 8 November he will be 32…We both cannot believe that…I muse…
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Working Time
Struggling with time is struggling with meaning, one and the same thing, in my mind. What is to be done with time as it courses and meanders through our lives? The days go by as we think we use them. I don’t believe there is a human being on this planet who has a real handle on how to use time effectively which connotes industrialism; rather, one who dispenses time as one might put on cologne, atomizing it, spritzing over your head and going beneath it to be sweetly inundated in essences. No methods exist for manipulating time. That is a fool’s…