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Quotable – Natalie Goldberg
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Literary Birthday – 15 December – Edna O’Brien
Edna O’Brien was born 15 December 1930 and died 28 July 2024.
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Book Review – White Truffles In Winter
by N.M. Kelby (Alma Books) ISBN 9781846882074 This beautiful, well written book has enthralled me completely. It is a book so special that as Markus Zusak says, I want to carry it around with me just to stay near it. If, in the words of Escoffier, ‘cooking is the marriage of science and poetry,’ then
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Book Review – Lone Wolf
by Jodi Picoult (Hodder & Stoughton) ISBN: 978-1-44472899-6 I have a confession. I have not read a Jodi Picoult novel before. I have always thought her topics were heart wrenching. Then Lone Wolf crossed my desk. I wondered if she had ventured into the supernatural genre. I was pleasantly surprised once I had finished reading Lone Wolf.
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Quotable – Gary Provost
This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music.
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