GIVEAWAY WINNER   Freda at Freda's Voice is the lucky winner of Vacationland by Sarah Stonich , her new collection of connected s...

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White Russians, communists, atheists, Catholics, progressives, classicists, English professors, and visiting poets all roam the halls o...

Meg walks the path from the lodge, hoping Polly might have leftover poundcake In her cabin for tea, maybe some of the oranges. The path t...

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We are down to the last bits of kitchen remodeling. The brick we've waited for for months finally got here. Most impressively, the guys ...

Please join me every Friday to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about th...

Authors tend to be readers, so it is natural for them to create characters who like to read.  It is always interesting to me to rea...

By Wednesday, all she can think about is the paycheck on Friday night. She gives up being "good," bringing a bottle of rum a...

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I have eency weency spiders on my mind because Portland has been invaded by them.  You can't walk between two trees, bushes, gate...

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The ocean lurked below him. He floored it, his tires screeching as the Impala fishtailed it dangerously close to the cliff. -- Drive ...

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This is what is making me glum: The inside of our kitchen is all but done (still waiting on the decorative tile backsplash), but the ou...

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Scout's Honor , the original book about the problem of sex abuse in Boy Scouts, is available now on Kindle for only $1.99. The book...

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We are still waiting on brick to finish the outside of the new kitchen.  Apparently matching 100-year-old brick takes some doing. Ours is no...

Please join me every Friday to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about th...

Vladamir Nabokov was a Russian-born novelist, born in 1899, who published his first books in Russian before emigrating to America in 194...