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The other book is lesser known to me—Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin. It’s a crime thriller set in medieval England. It introduces the compelling Adelia—abandoned as a child, adopted by doctors, trained in Salerno (a center of learning), and now a woman of modern sen...
for its long descriptions of Roman museums and the artworks therein, leading it to be actually used as a guide book; from about 1865 to 1920, English and American tourists would make their own choice of illustrations by selecting between 15 and 150 small photographic prints sold by Italian ...
If this is phto and story’s deja vu for you, it’s true. This is a rerun of a rerun. I wrote it in 2013 and posted it again in 2016 for the same reason I’m posting it this week. It has been an incredibly busy week and my muse is flat comatose. Since the high holidays a...
computer screen, my insides vacillating between numbness and nauseous churning. No words come out. Nothing seems good enough or clear enough or worthwhile. A waste of time, all of it, petty creative ambitions gone underground while I wait for my heart to thaw.Why does the muse hate me so?
The University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop, the oldest in the country, gives the feeling of a vacation brochure. “Workshop alumni have won sixteen Pulitzer Prizes (most recently Philip Schultz in 2008), as well as numerous National Book Awards and other major literary honors.” They might ...
My Bookshelf Plans What’s Cooking? Smoothiessell by date Featured Most of my life I’ve been obsessed with the obituaries. Children have a natural fascination with death and gore. The first headline I remember reading was about Marilyn Monroe’s death. Well, it was easy. I guessed from...
Someday we’ll have bookcases and the dictionary will be returned to its place of honor. Anyway.Mother Readerhas a link to an entertaining vocabularyquiz. My score was 78%. What’s yours? 21 June 2007 Scissors I work in an eccentric building. We still have elevator operators, because the...
When more fires are started in Lake City evidence indicates it is the work of a serial arsonist. When Jesslyn has some close calls at fire scenes, she is concerned that she is being targeted by the arsonist. This book has lots of action, suspense, and mystery throughout the story. Both...
) into a Word template forAvery 5163labels, figured out how to type on top of the image (so they could be personalized), printed them out, and whacked them a bit with the paper cutter. A spare label (from the outtakes) went into the book; ten more bookplates were tucked into the ...