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MILFORD, Iowa, Nov. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Thinix® has released RetroUI™ Pro, groundbreaking new software that fundamentally improves the user experience of Windows 8 computers. Included with RetroUI Pro is new patent-pending technology called RetroUI Enforce™. Enforce brings back the Windows taskbar and Start button when the Windows 8 Start screen (Metro) is active. Windows Store (Metro) apps are now windowed so you can resize them and reposition them around the desktop. RetroUI Pro also replaces the missing Start menu with a customizable start menu that integrates the Modern UI (Metro) features so you don't have to search for the charms bar or hidden corners anymore. These features dramatically improve the user experience and virtually eliminate the learning curve for anyone new to Windows 8.
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Download a full 7 day trial of the new RetroUI today from RetroUI.com.
An introductory product video: RetroUI.com/Video
Background on the Missing Start Menu:
Windows 8 is coming to a desktop, laptop, or tablet near you, and it has some great new features. But did you know that Microsoft has hidden the taskbar and completely removed the Start menu in Windows 8? Windows 8 now relies on hidden features such as hot-corners and the charms bar, which are not necessarily intuitive. These changes have left many traditional Windows users wondering how to use Windows 8.
"We did significant user testing of Windows 8 in a business environment. We identified a number of challenges that may cause some inefficiency," said Anthony Clark, VP of Business Development at Thinix. "Lost access to the taskbar and start menu, a change in the ability to multi-task, and a UI with critical features hidden off the screen were the biggest issues. This drove us to develop the new Enforce technology and other features of RetroUI Pro."
RetroUI Pro – Saves the day:
RetroUI Pro brings revolutionary technologies to Windows 8, enabling it to be used efficiently on every type of PC. RetroUI Enforce allows the Windows 8 Start screen to run while the Windows taskbar remains visible. Enforce also squeezes Windows Store (Metro) apps into resizable windows, and allows users to quickly toggle them in and out of full-screen. RetroUI also brings back the features people are used to in the Start menu and delivers exciting new features that make it even better. The result of all these things is a vastly improved user experience.
RetroUI Pro – Core Features at a Glance:
- Brings back the start menu with a modern look and feel
- Takes charge of Metro to bring back the taskbar and new RetroUI start menu
- Forces Windows Store (Metro) apps to run in resizable and movable windows
- Skip Metro and return to the classic desktop at login
- Pin classic apps, default Windows Store apps, websites, and more to your Favorites
- TabletView™ allows you to organize and access your pinned favorites
New Patent-Pending UI RetroUI™ Enforce™ Technology
Enforce™ significantly improves the user experience of Windows 8 by bringing back the taskbar whenever the Windows 8 Start screen is running. This allows you to return to the classic desktop by just clicking on the taskbar or switch to a running classic desktop program by clicking it in the taskbar. Enforce technology also allows users to run Windows Store (Metro) apps to in a window. This means you can resize these Metro applications and move them around, similar to classic Windows applications.
"Because tablets and desktops are so different, and the things you do on them is so different, some of the trade-offs designed into Windows 8 to make it tablet compatible have sacrificed usability on normal PCs." said Don Van Oort, CTO of Thinix. "RetroUI Pro corrects these issues and makes using Windows 8 dramatically better, easier, and more fun on desktops and laptops."
User-Friendly Front-End / Enterprise Back-End:
RetroUI is first and foremost built around providing a great user experience. The new RetroUI start menu does everything you think a start menu should do, plus integrates the new Windows 8 features. It's designed for end-users, and makes it simple to 'pin' your favorite things organize them just the way you want. Users can open nearly anything ranging from classic Windows applications, documents, default Windows Store apps, and websites. Users can easily access new Windows 8 features like the Task switcher, Charms bar, Metro and Search. The shutdown options menu are also now back in the start menu.
RetroUI is also designed for the enterprise with a true multi-user architecture, inheritance, and security that make enterprise deployment easy to manage. RetroUI also works on VMware virtual machines, and over Remote Desktop, Citrix, and other remote protocols. With these tools, you can do things like connect iPads to Windows 8 machines over RDP.
Something New – TabletView™
TabletView is a new concept which allows users to organize pinned favorites and launch them with a single touch. TabletView can be integrated into the start menu for desktop and laptop users, or can run full-screen for tablet PC users. TabletView features state-of-the art drag-and-drop technology to allow users to organize and arrange their favorite apps, websites, and much more.
Skip over the Windows 8 (Metro) Start Screen:
Some people may want to bypass the new Modern UI altogether. For these users, RetroUI can skip the Start screen and automatically return to the classic Windows desktop after login. An advanced option can completely block all the new Modern UI features.
Software you can Trust:
RetroUI is designed and built entirely in the United States by Thinix and doesn't violate the security of your device. RetroUI is digitally signed and fully supported and contains no spyware, adware, or viruses. RetroUI Pro is compatible with the current RTM version of Windows 8, and not Windows RT or the consumer/developer preview versions.
RetroUI Pro is currently available in 19 languages: Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish.
Availability and Pricing
RetroUI Pro is immediately available for purchase starting at $4.95 /PC or $9.95 for a 3-PC license for personal computers. Business and Education Licenses with options for long-term support are available. Visit RetroUI.com for more information.
About Thinix
Thinix is a wholly-owned subsidiary of R & D Industries, Inc. a 28 year old technology research, development and engineering firm with market focuses on engineering, software development, OEM software and hardware solutions, user interface technology, embedded systems architecture, cryptography, network and PC security architecture, cloud computing, and virtualization solutions. Thinix technology is installed worldwide in consumer, military, hospitality, education, government, healthcare, and agricultural applications.
Thinix®, RetroUI™, Thinix RetroUI™, and Thinix Enforce™ are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of Thinix / R & D Industries, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies.
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Ariadne auf Naxos, Bordeaux
Ariadne on Naxos, or you could call it Bacchus á Bordeaux. It was an orgy of art.
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With the New York Premiere of Florencia en el Amazonas, the New York City Opera Steps Out of the Shadows of the Past
Opportunities to see Idomeneo are not so frequent as they might be, certainly not so frequent as they should be.
Not merely Don Carlo, but the five-act Don Carlo in the 1886 Modena version! The welcomed esotericism of San Francisco Opera's extraordinary spring season.
The early summer San Francisco Opera season has the feel of a classy festival. There is an introduction of Spanish director Calixto Bieito to American audiences, a five-act Don Carlo and two awaited, inevitable role debuts, Karita Mattila as Kostelnička and Malin Bystrom as Janacek's Jenůfa.
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Although Bohuslav Martinů's short operas Ariane and Alexandre bis date from 1958 and 1937 respectively, there was a distinct tint of 1920s Parisian surrealism about director Rodula Gaitanou's double bill, as presented by the postgraduate students of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
The eyes of the opera world turned recently to Dresden—the city where Wagner premiered his Rienzi, Fliegende Holländer, and Tannhäuser—for an important performance of Lohengrin. For once in Germany it was not about the staging.
Ariadne on Naxos, or you could call it Bacchus á Bordeaux. It was an orgy of art.
The opera's prologue got us pretty concerned about exactly how the Strauss/von Hofmannsthal conceit (superimposing improvised comedy on high art tragedy) would play out. It was going to happen in some sort of distressed art space where some pretty bad art (a huge, plastic sculpture) had been lifted out to make space for more, we assumed, bad art ("performance art" is at least naughty if not usually bad).
But all this turned out to be a high flying artistic extravaganza. Its riches were three fold — first it is a big opera with three great roles for sopranos, second there were three great sopranos, and third Bordeaux gave the opera a mise en scène that played with its complexities and reveled in its fun.
Performance art is as close as we come these days to commedia dell'arte, so this transcription of art form was well taken, plus performance art seems to question the nature of art more than it questions anything else and this led metteur en scène Roy Rallo to probe the depths of this silly Strauss/von Hofmannsthal tragedia cum commedia and to find out that it is in fact a fairly serious artistic treatise.
The ubiquitous wreck of a cheap sofa that inhabits most performance spaces here headquartered Najade, Dryade and Echo in various prone positions while stage hands poured buckets of dirt over them, Ariadne was seated in the neon tube outlined sand box, with the remnant, a small head (remember the huge sculpture in the prologue), of a dog's toy that was the minotaur, and Theseus too. Echo outlined the minotaur head on the ubiquitous performance space white wall during Ariadne's lament, and later seconded the forceful horn announcements of Bacchus' arrival with determined throws of her yoyo. More dirt was poured on Najade and Dryade.
When it was Zerbinetta's turn in the sand box she sang her ravishing parody in nightclub garb only to be sexually ravaged by the comedians (painting her in lurid colors). When she became Harlequin's wife in an American gothic tableau during Ariadne's prayer we understood all too well that all this was the trappings of ordinary, everyday mortal love in contrast to the grandiose ideal of love sought by Ariadne.
Well, Bacchus arrived and we had Orpheus and Euridice all over again. In reverse. When their gaze finally met it was all over, Bacchus disappeared into the void (all the doors onto the stage burst open — out the back we even saw the building across the street) and Ariadne was left alone on the stage as the beat-up Zerbinetta with her sad Harlequin husband exited through a side door into a snow storm.
So, all this was art, but what about life? That was of course Strauss' Composer who had a bitter artistic pill to swallow, though this young composer thought he had found a soul mate in Zerbinetta, and he poured his heart out about it, only to be first of the opera's lovers to learn that true love is not to be had in this life. Just then there was a bonus: the Opéra National de Bordeaux enriched Strauss' ridiculous concoction by superimposing an operatic whim of its own — real time, curtain calls onto the prologue!
Heidi Melton as Ariadne, Elza van den Heever as The Composer and Brenda Rae as Zerbinetta
Marsha Ginsberg gave detailed design to the sets, the dirty walls and chipped tiles of a very realistic building blurring the boundaries between art and real life, and costumer Doey Lüethi further complicated this distinction with real clothing that sometimes screamed character. Lighting by Chris Akerlind cannily intermixed the real and the arty, the flashing red and green lights during the opera's final sublime love music reminding us that all this was, said and done, performance art confusing itself with art.
Yes, it took the considerable artistry of three exquisite sopranos to pull this off. Elza van den Heever (Composer), Heidi Melton (Ariadne) and Brenda Rae (Zerbinetta) are new generation artists with beautiful, fresh and well-schooled voices that illuminate amazing histrionic depth with elegant artistry. Mlle. van den Heever literally tore up the stage in her aria. Not to mention that Zerbinetta tore up the stage as well, standing motionless for her aria, and Heidi Melton brought real gravity to the opera's opera, sitting with her back against the wall, her legs splayed downstage, her voice lofting torrents of gorgeous tone.
Brenda Rae as Zerbinetta and Thomas Dolié as Harlequin
Conductor Kwamé Ryan drove the big moments of the opera to maximum Straussian effect, and that effect was considerable indeed, though precision and energy were wanting in the detail that Strauss lavishes on his musical story telling. This was most noticeable in the Prologue, though it is possible that this Prologue's laxity was also the result of the heavy-handed exposition of the performance art metaphor.
The Harlequin, sung by baritone Thomas Dolié, created the evening's most touching moments, approaching Ariadne's sandbox with his arms outstretched during her lament, and then as Zerbinetta's forlorn husband. The Music Master was confidently portrayed by Oliver Zwarg. Actor Martin C. Turba as the Major-domo seemed to be at odds with the musical and staging rhythms of the Prologue further deadening it. Tenor Arnold Bezuyen as Bacchus confused bellowing with singing. Najade (Mélody Loulejian), Dryade (Leslie Davis) and particularly Echo (Eve-Christophe-Fontana) brought fine singing and much pleasurable deadpan perspective to Ariadne's suffering.
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May 20, 2013 - 17:37 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Ron Howard and Brian Grazer have been seeking funding for their Dark Tower project at the Cannes Film Festival.
The producers have streamlined their ambitious plans in order to find an investor for their Stephen King adaptation, Digital Spy reports citing Deadline.
Media Rights Capital is to fund one movie based on the seven-volume fantasy/Western saga, with more to come if the first succeeds.
Grazer also said that they were in talks with a Silicon Valley investor who is willing to fund the multiple-film project as previously planned.
Russell Crowe is in line to play last Gunslinger Roland Deschain in the adaptation.
The Dark Tower has already passed through the hands of Universal Pictures and Warner Bros.
King recently returned to the franchise with the supplementary novel The Wind Through the Keyhole.
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Artist: Porter Wagoner
Album: Highway Headin' South
On a highway headed south somewhere to Dixie
Where the cotton blooms in spring and snow don't fly
I'm gonna rest these chilly bones in southern sunshine
And live where the weather's warm until I die
North Dakota you've got my better years Montana you've got five years of my life
But your subzero wind will never touch me again
Southern folks can't live on snow and ice
On a highway headed south...
When I cross the Dixie line I'll throw away my coat
And my goods down underwear will have to go
I'll never live again where the weather chills you to the bone
I'm tired of livin' like an Eskimo
On a highway headed south...
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The songs here are mostly slower Mojave 3 or Mazzy Star influenced slower folk pop. Maybe a bit of Trembling Blue Stars in here as well. Instruments focus mostly on reverb drenched vocals and acoustic guitar, with some sort of metronome keeping beat throughout a few of the tracks . The singer has got some interesting vibrato at times, but it doesn't quite fit with the lo-fi nature of the songs. Hmm.. actually, the Shmat thought he sounded quite a bit like Art Garfunkel on the later tracks.
The Shmat has to say, he was not so impressed with the lyrics; they're a little too prosaic for his tastes. "The light rays are catching / Your Rhythm / With Ice / In your vein" sounds even more strained on tape than when read directly. The best song to the Shmat was the Radiohead-like first track "Tokyo Trial". The third song, perhaps aptly named "Star" sounded a little too much like Big Star. "Our Spring, Our Summer" had uncomfortable long pauses and time changes in it. Overall, this tape is not horrible, but the Shmat definitely wouldn't recommend quitting the day jobs just yet.
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Money flows for levees and riverbank rebuildEliza Rogers, Thursday August 29, 2013 - 14:39 EST
The State Government this morning announced nearly $2.4 million to build two levees and stabilise a popular part of the Burnett riverbank in the Bundaberg region.
One levee will be built adjacent to Technology Park and the other between Batchlers and Mt Perry roads, and a badly-eroded part of the Burnett River at Midtown Marina will be built up and backfilled.
Community Recovery and Resilience minister David Crisafulli said government had worked with Bundaberg Regional Council, which had mapped out a vision for the future.
He realised the obstacles, but said authorities had to step up response.
"You'll never flood-proof towns like Bundaberg, but that doesn't mean we can't do of a hell of a lot better."
Mayor of Bundaberg Regional Council Mal Forman said the bank stabilisation at Midtown Marina was prioritised in line with public demand.
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Police responded to Bootz Saloon and Grill after receiving multiple 911 calls reporting a large fight apparently involving racial slurs at 2:25 a.m. June 7.
According to the Oak Creek police report:
Witnesses said a man at Bootz Saloon, 8950 S. 27th St., started the fight by using racial slurs toward another male patron, which led to a verbal altercation.
A second male then hit the patron on the head with a beer bottle, causing a large laceration, and the three starting scuffling. The patron was tackled into the front door, causing about $500 worth of damage to a window pane.
During the altercation a male security guard also got struck in the back with a beer bottle, but both victims refused medical attention. An uninvolved witness tentatively identified the man who started the disturbance, but the two suspects fled before police arrived and after they received multiple 911 calls about the fight.
Police are reviewing video surveillance of the incident and the investigation is ongoing.
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Beavisman4000 Beavisman4000 Jan 25, 2013 9:28 PM Flag
How much longer until we get paid??
Since stat corrections was on Dec. 30 (not counting Saturday's/Sunday's/Holidays) we're approaching 20 business days since the end of fantasy championships. Now I have no idea whats going, but Yahoo better give us SOMETHING. We can't contact them. We don't know if they or whoever is holding our money. Answers from top people are all I want and the money thats owed to me.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
Duck Adams Duck Adams Feb 1, 2013 6:36 PM Flag
I received payment the first week of Jan. Be sure to check your Paypal account if you have one because that is where it shows up. You won't see it in your checking account, just the Paypal account. Ogden Owls Steve Adams
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Beavisman4000 Beavisman4000 Feb 1, 2013 8:16 PM Flag
I've been checking my paypal account all of the month of January. Still nothing!
I'd like to see the payouts for the leagues and who received the money.
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Beavisman4000 Beavisman4000 Jan 31, 2013 8:19 PM Flag
I'd like to see something at this point. ANYTHING!!
Donnie Lowe Donnie Lowe Jan 29, 2013 12:35 AM Flag
They giving me the run around thru emails.
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Which means we rocket on approval as most bios trade @ 2-4 times sales. Then there's ACRX-04 entering PIII trials in late Q3 to early Q4 with another $300-400 million in sales coming to ACRX
if you look at other bio's you can see the sales ratio: vertex 5x sales. the smallest that i foung was 2.75 x sales.
the orignal u.s. sales estimeate without the european or other foreign data was 500 mill and the lowest was
400 mill. with 43 million shares out at 400 mill that is
3x = 28 bucks per share
5x = 46.51.
that is why i say 20+ on approval -- again with no other revenue or new products thown in.
at that doesn't take into consideration the 6+million shorts that will have to cover.
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- Release: Nov 18, 2002
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The Impossible Room
This level is not really that difficult. Remember -- everything is a mirror reflection of the rooms that seem upside down while you are looking up. Get familiar with the behavior of the room and knock it out. However, the difficult part is figuring the locations of the other rooms to get out of this room. The first two are easy because you stumble across them. When you get the Dragon's Eye (so you can see hidden doors), look for an eyeball on the wall. When you see it, use your Dragon's Eye to find the opening. There are only two hidden rooms in the Impossible Room. Look carefully -- one room has bonus items you need. The second room takes you to the Lizard King. When you get the Dragon's Skin (armor against fire), fall down the hole that has fire billowing up on the bottom floor. This will end the Impossible Room and will take you deeper into the castle (Lava Level).
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Today - at least for a while this morning was Nirvana. SIGH
I was able to sit outside and enjoy our shady spot under the tree reading a book! AND
there was ice tea involved. There was a slight breeze and I was surrounded by flowers. Add to this scene, I was reading the newest Karen White book called Flight Patterns (which was awesome!) Tomorrow, I will be able to sit outside at the lake with a
pal and again enjoy the sun with my toes in the sand and a book. This is truly what makes all the snow and ice worthwhile. (Even though that weather allows me to read inside curled up on the couch.) The cats were sleeping on the ground by
me. This was Nirvana. Except for the bee that stung me. Obviously the bee did not get the message I was in my happiest of happy places.
All this happiness was able to happen due to the
public and school libraries that I have used throughout my life. I have always had access to great libraries and books that helped encourage my love of reading. Over the years, I have discovered that there are schools that are struggling without
books. I knew that as our economics have tightened in many towns that the libraries in schools and towns often have to do without. I did not spend a lot of time thinking about this.
Last week through a
link on a group facebook page (on one of my favorite authors), I found out about the Greenville Junior/Senior High School and Indian Valley Academy in California. The school has struggled for years to supply books to students. They have not been
able to buy new books for their library since the 1990s. The school district has decided to rededicate themselves to improving the quality and quantity of the books available, but money was an issue. A blogger in the area, wrote a series of blogs
about sending books to the school system. And that is when a true miracle happened. Other bloggers reblogged the information and people have sent books. Lots of books. The entire list of needed books on Amazon has been donated by kind people. Other
people have sent their favorite young adult books and others have sent gently used books. I also sent some books, sending titles that the boys have particularly enjoyed this year.
I realized how truly blessed I
have been. Books have been a constant in my world for years. I hope those students find a similar Nirvana.
Father's Day always leaves me feeling a little left out. Dad died many years ago and I wholeheartedly miss his presence in my life. As years pass, I have more trouble 'seeing' my
dad in my mind's eye. I know he loved to be outdoors. He loved his family. He loved to play Scrabble. He loved to read. He loved us.
He used to sit at the kitchen table
reading the newspaper cover to cover daily, although he may have been "resting his eyes" as well. He always knew what was going on in town and in the state. He loved to read westerns. He had a collection of Charles Alden Seltzer
and Zane Grey books that he read cover to cover many times. Some of these were from the original printing and others were reprints. He knew each book frontwards and backwards. Both authors were prolific and had published many books, some even came
out after their death. He shared these books with me and I read each and every one of them. I had favorites and least favorites. I had books I read over and over. Dad thought a lot of these books and they were always well maintained. When
he became ill, he lent some out and I have never found where they ended up. After he died I took the rest of them to my home.
Charles Alden Seltzer and Zane Grey's books were novels
were about a time in the west that had been serialized by cowboys, wanderers, mountain men, rangers, western justice, and standing up for what was right and moral. The heroes were not always heroes at first, but by the end of the book, they usually had
solved some mystery or injustice and saved or married a woman caught up in the concern. The books described the western landscape with details that made the books come alive. I sometimes wonder if that is how he saw himself. Someone who had
it hard, but found the woman he wanted and tried to stand up for what was moral and right. Not such a bad goal when you think of it…
I loved my Dad and work hard to stand up for what
is right. I love my family and love to play Scrabble, although I am not as good at it as he was. I love being outdoors most of the time. But of all the similarities one of the largest he passed on to me was the love of reading fiction. Thanks Dad!
School is almost done… that means - SUMMER READING
I am excited to have school end for the year. Not that I will stop working. I am responsible for writing curricula and tutoring several students in reading,
writing and math. Having said all that, I do get some more time off in a couple of weeks. The gardens need weeding. The house needs a thorough cleaning. I need to get more exercise. Mostly, I get to read under the trees in comfortable
chairs with ice tea or on the sandy beach at the lake. There is always so much to see and do in the summer: flowers, birds, blue skies and lots of time.
One of the sure signs of summer is the lists of "beach books."
There are different definitions of what a makes a beach read. Many people consider beach reads to be books that could be read at the beach and might not be as intense. For me, the story has to include a beach, usually the ocean. Some of my favorite
authors have books that are published now for the summer I have a list already given to the local library for the books.
There are scores of places online with list after list of summer reads. I have put together my list to save
you time! Below are my "favorite author's summer reads." I know I am going to be reading them! I am so ready!
Flight Patterns by Karen White
The Weekenders by Mary Kay Andrews
Summer Long by Dorothea Benton Frank
The Island House by Nancy Thayer
Here's to Us by Elin Hilderbrand
Seashell Season (comes out late June) by Holly Chamberlin
These are books I am considering
to read as well.
The Sunlight Night by Rebecca Dinerstein
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Wild Lake by Laura Lippman
Mystic Summer by Hannah McKinnon
Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo
Santorini Sunset (comes out in July) by Anita Hughes
I know that the magic of books is available for everyone.
This last quarter school has been - well difficult at times. There is always more to teach and NEVER enough time to get to it all. The school I teach at is not like many
schools and contains students who were not succeeding in their regular schools. They were not able to access the education that they needed and were often scorned for their efforts. Some of the students I have had for two years while others are
newer to the school and me. Some are reading way above level and some are reading below their chronological level. I have spent time telling them about books, reading books with them. Books that have adventures and hopes and information,
nonfiction and fiction alike. I have bribbed and cajoled and tried again with more books.
And then it happened last week… a student completed a book and sighed
and said that he really liked his book but now it is all done. To my surprise and enjoyment, the other students actually put down the various books they were reading and the five of them had a discussion about what book he should read next. From this,
he had decided on a new book. I was jumping and laughing and crying inside.
Are these students going to be readers for life? The jury is still out on that,
but they had a heartfelt conversation about books. They spoke about what they liked in the books they had read. They listened to each other. They offered suggestions to each other that were thoughtful and showed understanding. They
used the literary terms I have been encouraging them to use like plot and characters and mood.
The best part was that didn't just happen in one class, but it happened
in all three Language Arts classes. Not to the marked extent of the first class, but in other ways. Student have been reading me parts of their stories. Students have been laughing outloud at a character's silliness. And they
have been writing reviews for me. Short and sometimes awkward reviews but reviews none the less. A couple of them have even exposed themselves to putting their reviews up on GoodReads. Others have asked me to write home, with titles of books
to get from the library or other sources.
The point of this - books are magic. They can transform. They can change people. They can be part
of a boy's or a girl's life even when reading is hard. Magic….
Today is Memorial Day and I wish I could thank the men and women who sacrificed their lives. Their stance on freedom has allowed us to enjoy this beautiful day full of sun and warmth. A day that allows
many of us to cook out, spending the time with family and friends. Baseball games and swimming, laughing and playing, a day spent in the luxury of peace.
Recently while planning for a history unit,
I had the occasion to do some early research on WWII. Dad was part of the Air Force and wore his uniform proudly, but when it was time for the war to be over, he hung it up and did not speak about it. He was stationed in India and China and flew
what was known as the Indochina loop. Many of the men from his group did not survive. Some of the planes they flew in were not meant for the heights they flew, or had engines that could not stay cool sufficiently to be safe. I am grateful
my dad survived.
However, reading about the battles made me so grateful for all the men and woman who died in all our armed services. Some of them took missions knowing that they were one
way with little possibility of return. Many were killed invading small islands that were booby trapped. Others died trying to push back invading armies. Many died on foreign soils buried where they died.
tragic horror of war has taken so much. Praying for the day when wars cease.
Another weekend has gone. I am not sure what happens to make them move so quickly. I have started another online course form edX, so my reading time has been impacted. The course luckily does
not have a lot of reading, but more visuals with videos of lectures, with further research and discussions. It is amazing what four hours devoted to a class can do to your reading time. (Luckily it is a four week class.)
It is an expensive time of year for me to be a reader for some different reasons: library, the FOMBE and the book sales. It is the time of the year for me to pay for my library card for another year. I know, if I used my
local library I would not be paying for the privilege. When I worked for a school district and my mom lived in that same district, it was easier to use that library, especially because they allowed employees of the school to use the library for free.
It is a lovely library with wonderfully knowledgeable and nice personnel. So even though I have moved my employment status to another school and my mom no longer is alive, I cheerfully pay to stay using the Baker Free Library. It is a jewel
among libraries.
I am also a founding member of MainStreet BookEnds. It is our local independent bookstore. They have been wonderful finding books for me and suggesting others. As a FOMBE with
a once a year buy in, I can get 20% off my purchases. This is a wonderful perk and I am grateful to be part of a wonderful opportunity.
Lastly, the book sales are killing me. The bookstore
helps fund a scholarship that is funded by a huge book sale in the spring. Once again, I dropped some money there. On top of that the Historical Society has opened it's barn again. On the second floor there are books and books and books
to buy. Once again I felt the need to help out by buying books, like I need more!
My reading might have been curtailed, but my buying of books and other book related activities were going strong...OH WELL.
I love factoids. You know the bits of facts that are not known by a lot of people but I find are fascinating. Adding bits of facts and twisting them into a novel is a way to add realism to fiction.
A great author can take one small item from history and weave it into a story that makes you truly believe the most outrageous of consequences years later. I love books that can do this! I love wondering where exactly the line is…
There are many authors that do this, but in the last couple of weeks I have read a some with fabulous real ties to the past and the authors used that past to design a story or to augment the story.
The Edge
of Summer by Jessica Brockmole was a story about two people and WWI. Part of the storyline was about soldiers coming back from the war with grotesque facial injuries. This was factual as well as how many people tried to help them with the making of face
masks. The masks were high technology for the time and were painted to match the soldiers facial features. Adding this element not only gave the story an element for the main characters to meet again, but allowed the reader to experience the horror of
the war.
Another example would be House of Dreams by Kate Lord Brown. In this novel one of the factual story lines was about WWII when the Nazi's were invading France. There were a
group of international rescue workers who worked tirelessly to get the artists, writers and other talented people out of France before they were arrested by the Nazis. Knowing what these brave people did brought a realism and poignancy to the story line.
14th Colony by Steve Berry starts with a premise that is not well known. At one point the United States wanted Canada to join them as the 14th colony and then later as another state. Obviously it did
not happen, but using that factoid in the story and then developing more of a story around it allowed you to be brought into the story wondering about what could've and or would've been.
on Primrose Lane by Yona Zeldis McDonough brought a fact in the past into a story in the present via another story. Mary Blay was hung in 1768 in Portsmouth, NH for concealment of pregnancy. The baby was born dead according to facts although at
the time, many people felt she killed the baby. This story is written as a story within a story and adds to the reality that the main character is an author who wants to write about a tragic happening in New Hampshire. This also allows her to drive
to different places in New Hampshire to investigate.
The four books were all read this month. They were all new fiction with various settings and themes, meant to draw in the reader. My fascination
with unusual factoids and how they played out or at least played a role in a larger story allows me the realism factor when reading. Imagine what small facts that you know that could grow into a fictional novel. Yup and that is why I read - not
Recent Books:
House on Primrose Lane by Yona Zeldis McDonough
14th Colony by Steve Berry
House of Dreams by Kate Lord Brown
The Edge of Summer by Jessica Brockmole
I have always known that reading makes me happier. I love reading new books and find myself reading faster when I love the book and then I am sad when it has ended. Perhaps that is why I am a series
reading gal. I get to keep revisiting the same characters (like Roarke and Ranger).
This week I read an op-ed piece about how there are studies that prove reading makes people happier (Can Reading
Make You Happier? by Ceridwen Dovey). "Reading has been shown to put our brains into a pleasurable trance-like state, similar to meditation, and it brings the same health benefits of deep relaxation and inner calm."
My family can certainly all tell you of times when no matter how hard they tried, I was very hard to pull out of a book. I mean really really hard. I can now say with some satisfaction that I was meditating. As a matter of fact, I think
I am going to use that line for now on. Please don't bother me, I am meditating. Granted it might be hard to pull that off when I am reading a bloody thriller with a psychopath - but I intend to try. I wonder if I need a hat, maybe
a tee shirt with the expression to help people understand.
The article goes on to state, "regular readers sleep better, have lower stress levels, higher self-esteem, and lower rates of depression
than non-readers." Okay so maybe all the parts don't work for me. However in the spirit of our political candidates, I am going to ignore that fact.
There was a great deal about empathy as well. The
article spoke about how people who read fiction are better at empathy. The mirror neurons in our brain fire when we read about an action or do the action ourselves. So that means we have a better understanding when something happens to our friends
and we can be more empathetic with them. I guess this means another tee shirt or hat. What do you think? Do not disturb, I might look like I am reading, but actually I am building empathy and meditating. Or - I am reading to build empathy,
so when you interrupt me - I will not rip off your head. Maybe that is a little too harsh?
This week I had the opportunity to go back to college for just a quick visit to my old alma mater. The college has been closed for years (After the late 80s many small liberal arts colleges failed.) and
I have to admit, I had not been back for many many years. I met a college friend and we hung out by what used to be the library on stone benches and shared about our lives. At our feet there was a brick path that had bricks with names of
people who also went to our college.
I worked at the library for 3 years as my work study. Sometimes I was at the front desk and shelving books, but mostly I was back in the research section. I
realized at that point - how much I love the library and the world of books. I loved to help people find information and the librarians suggested many times that I might wish to consider a career in library science. It didn't happen, but
the lessons I learned in the library have help me in life.
If you don't ask the right questions you rarely get the right answer.
Be clear about what you are looking for - otherwise you will not be able to find it.
Always put things away where they belong, stacking is not good.
I still need to learn this lesson. {sigh}
Books, like other things have time limits, attempt to stay within them. Sometimes you can renew something
for a couple of more days and some things do not not ever leave.
I am not terrible with time limits - but I do tend to perseverate until the end.
There is a book for every person, even if they have not found it yet.
Sometimes more than one 8>)
Never judge a book by the cover
I am sure you have heard this before!
Librarians know where to find all sorts
of cool information
Never play trivia games with them, unless they are on your team.
Perseverance does make a difference.
Keep looking - you will find what you are looking for. It just might not look like what
you thought it would.
I felt in college, I did not ever have enough time to just read for pleasure. I know that others have felt the same way. I remember coming home from college so anxious for a story to carry me away. A novel full of suspense
or love or fear or anything but facts and figures. I know during the summers I inhaled books almost as if it would be the last chance to read ever again.
For me, seeing the library, knowing that it
is now serving new purposes was important but even with the new purposes it still connects people with books, hopes, dreams and practical advice.
"A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it." by David Mitchell
I took the week off, so for me it is vacation week.
I have a list of chores to be accomplished this week including the obvious ones of vacuuming, laundry and dishes. However for those who know me, the longest part of my list are the books I want to read! Right now the list is really long so
I am not sure where to start. It does not help that the Red Sox are finally back on and I have the MLB channel as well.
Some of the books are compliments of Net Galley, books that will come out
later this month or early next month. Some are from Rockstar PR and Literary Agency, books that use Rockstar for publicity. I am lucky enough to be on their list for reading ARC. Some of the books are from the library (I hope if my number comes
up). I have a list of five books that I am number 1 or 2 to receive once they ready to be borrowed. Lastly, I have a bunch on the kindle that I would enjoy reading. After all, you all know I have an amazing amount on my TBR list.
I have been thinking about the above quote since I first read it about a couple of weeks ago. I am always sure that with each book I read, I change even if it is in the most miniscule of ways. I have
never thought of it in the opposite way.
I know it is not just the wear and tear on a book once read: the cat hair or smidge of dirt, but how we see the book and its message. Once you
read a book, all your preconceived notions about the book are no longer. Your prior connections and knowledge with the book changes as we take in the knowledge and change our notions.
Maybe that
quote means for every way a book changes me, means the book changes in equal amounts to me. It is like whether you are the hard object or the soft object, when they are hit together the result is almost always the same.
WOW – imagine all the books that might change this week.
It was a beautiful weekend. Sunny and warm with a bit of a breeze. I loved being out in the air and sun with a book. I am sure a number of you are shaking your head at me. The spring just
makes me want to be outside and well - read….
I finished a number of great reads this week including a couple that are coming out soon. I knocked a couple off my to read list and - gasp -
returned everything to the library! Don't worry - there are lots more on all my lists to read.
The best of the books this week was Georgia by Dawn Tripp. It was about the life of Georgia
O'Keeffe. I was introduced to her art by my mom, who loved the swarths of colors and the boldness of the subjects. While the book was not a memoir, nor a biography, it was based on her life and the materials available about her life. According
to the author, the conversations and the letters were not accurate but based on her research. No matter what the author said, I felt like I was immersed into her life and art. I felt what she felt and was mesmerized by her visceral need to feel
and see her art. I love that she was a feminist and wanted her art to stand for itself, not as a part of how the art community saw her with her relationship with her lover and later husband Alfred Stieglitz. I found she was a remarkable woman ahead of
her time. I did not realize she had macular degeneration as she aged and lost her eyesight. I enjoyed all the books I read this week and would recommend anyone of them, but Georgia really was great!
next few days the weather is going to be up and down with rain showers and I am back to work. The week after that - VACATION!!! I am so looking forward to the time - to read - hopefully in the sun… Happy Spring!!
My books this week:
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommends by Katarina Bivald
Because of Miss Bridgeton by Julia Quinn
Georgia by Dawn Tripp
While You Were Mine by Ann Howard Creel
Always for You: Jack by Alexis Morgan
Once Upon a Dream by Mary Balogh
I did not write a book blog last week. I think the new TV with the Major League Baseball Stations and pure exhaustion finally caught up with me. I was feeling that I had not enough time to read. Perhaps
the constant pull of the computer with its games was also pulling me away. Who knows…. But I am back…
The Goodreads Community sent me an email that said. " In our community
of readers, you stand out in a notable way: You're one of the top 1% of reviewers on Goodreads!" Further down the message they added, "You've written 1323 reviews since joining Goodreads on April 26th, 2009." They also added that
they have reached the 50 million review mark. WOW! The numbers kind have blown me away. I don't really think I understand what they mean, but it is cool none the less.
This has
solidified my desire to continue on this path. I was feeling discouraged and although my number of readers and followers have been steady, I have stopped growing as quickly as I had been. This has made me realize how much numbers can say without
really meaning a lot. One percent sounds like a lot until you realize that there are about 25 million members and 50 million book reviews. Suddenly one percent doesn't sound as important and it makes me one of hundreds of thousands….
So this week has been a catch up week for the students and I. We have finished three more books with great acclaim from the students: The Boy on the Wooden Box, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas,
and Soldier's Heart. My head was spinning toward the end as I am also still reading Marvin Redpost and the Orange Princess books at tutoring.
At least my to read list took a good hit
this week as I was able to finish the books for NetGalley that come out next week and am now reading a library book before it is due. Baseball is important to me, but this week I was reminded that reading is equally important and I had been neglecting
it. Thanks for being some of my top fans!
Books this week:
The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Soldier's Heart by Gary Paulsen
Most Wanted by Lisa Scottoline
Off the Hook by Laura Drewry
Fever at Dawn by Peter Gardos
I am reading:
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
Life is busy. People are busy. There are so many distraction within our life. People coming and going. People are stressed about all the activities that they and their children are constantly
in motion. I hear parents planning out their daily pick ups and drop offs of children with military precisions.
No wonder so many people speak about not having time to read in their life. We are
constantly being barraged by so much movement and choices. Electronic and videos - immediate gratification of constant amusement is available 24/7. Television with a gazillion channels, including all sorts of movies, sports and everything in between.
It is constant.
I have entered another level of constant entertainment, kicking and screaming. The phone/cable/internet company I have used for years (and years) has determined that they will
no longer offer cable. This weekend I was hooked up with a dish and the resulting networks.
I am overwhelmed. The choices. I have watched baseball all day and yes, one of the games
was the Sox. I have found the local news once. I am sure with some more investigation I can find it again. I found a station that plays jazz all the time. I even found Star Trek Second Generation…
I know I will cease finding this amazing soon. Even I will soon be too overwhelmed by all that baseball that I will turn it off. I even think I will eventually find some of the things I like to watch on TV and then turn
the TV off. Meanwhile I need to just find time to read with another distraction.
Hurry Up and Wait seems to be the model for our world. Everything needs to be done at breakneck speed immediately and then you wait...until it is your turn or time. One of the best things in this
world is that books don't hurry up and make you wait UNLESS you are a serial reader. You know who you are. We wait for the next book in our series to come out and immediately jump when the book comes out. We put off everything we possible
can and read the book, rushing through it - because it is soooo good. And then we wait again. That is me right now rushing and waiting.
Thank heavens for FictFact or I would never ever be able
to keep track of what book in what series comes out when! FictFact very nicely does that for me by maintaining a list of what books come out when. Goodreads does a similar thing with their lists of books recommendations based on authors you have
read in the past. Occasionally books do get missed. In my case, I missed that the newest Jacqueline Winspear book about Maise Dobb, Journey to Munich is out.
I have distinct memories
of searching through paperbacks and before I even read the back I would check the publishing date. If it was quite recent, it probably was the next book in the series. If not I probably already read it and put the book back. Now even
Amazon helps out by telling me I have already purchased a book for the Kindle with a little message across the top.
I am not sure how I used to keep track so I would not miss a book except with lists and
longer lists of old books and when the new ones would come out. After all I am a list maker. I am just not an organized keeper of the lists. When I cleaned off my desk this week the number of scraps of papers with lists of various important
things was quite tall and most of them were no longer needed. Did I mention how grateful I am for Fictfact and Goodreads to keep me up to date? Especially since I can no longer find books easily on my Kindle with its new operating system. (Sorry
- still am not happy with Amazon. See last week's blog.)
So yet again I have added another few books to my To Be Read (TBR) list with the help of the electronic systems I have found and use. And
yet I still hurry up and wait. I quickly emailed the library to put my name on the reserve list for the new Maise Dobb's book and I'll wait until the book comes in and then I will quickly read the book and wait to write the review. So
I guess I epitomize the Hurry Up and Wait Model. Not sure that is a positive characteristic I should encourage within myself.
My TBR list to be added to the longer TBR list
(already out) Journey to Munich by Jacqueline Winspear
(April) The 14th Colony by Steve Berry
(April) Bounty by Kristen Ashley
(April) Till Death Do Us Part by Amanda Quick
(May) Best of My Love by Susan Mallery
(May) Deep Dark by
Laura Griffin
(May) Ginger's Heart by Katy Regnery
My kindle is one of my most used possessions. I buy my purses and bags with an eye to the kindle fitting in safely. However recently the kindle has vexed me to no end. (I always have wanted to use
the word vex in a sentence.) There was an unexpected and unwanted update with no warning.
The home page problem is really two fold: the new cover page and where the books are. The new cover
page leaves me a small square on the upper left corner of the home page with on cover of the book I am reading and two small covers of the last two I read. Next to that, still on the top are a list of three books with the titles presented in a small
font under my reading list. The bottom half of the home page lists book recommendations. The recommendations are supposedly based on what I have bought or would like. Baloney - if that was the case why, of the five books listed, have I already purchased
and read three of them some time ago? And now - the two I have not seen before, I am less likely to look them up out of spite.
Just for the record we can thank Amazon and their
team for finding a new way to throw more suggestions of books at me. Like I need more suggestions! Really I have 1,787 books on the kindle and in the cloud (not that I understand that much either) to read or have been read and I need suggestions?
Once you leave the homepage and move to My Library, you run into a morass of epic proportions. First a bit of history. This is my second kindle. When I broke down and updated (It took five minutes
to flip a page on the old one) I was unable to get all my old books and categories on my new kindle. If I wanted to read one - first I would have to find it and then I could resend it to my kindle. It was a pain, one that I complained about to
Amazon. With this new update - everything is now loaded on this kindle - old categories (like folders), new categories, old books, new books, and deleted books. There is no order to the madness and I am once again floundering in the the unexpected.
So really what has Amazon done. They have answered my concern by putting all books on the kindle with their newest update and have left me a MESS of books and categories to figure out. Just when I became
more sanguine to the change, I went on Goodreads today, to look up an author (to help me find a book) and now I know Goodreads is going to be updated also - with a new home screen and - yes, you guessed it - more recommendations.
Another vacation week has slid by with remarkable speed and it is off to work I go tomorrow morning bright and early. This vacation has been quite different for me. I did read but it was different
this time. I did not have a reading list. I usually do. I did not have a stack of to-reads as I usually do.
I do not often reread books. To me, each new story and new
characters really make my reading more enjoyable. However, with my mother's death and the subsequent arrival of my family what I needed changed. This week I reread a portion of a series of books by Kristen Ashley called Colorado Mountain
Series. I found I needed something known yet unknown. I have not read the books in order before and some I read several years ago, so this series was good for me to reread.
I realized when
I was reading how much I do like the familiar. I was not bored and wanted to keep reading even though I knew how the book ended. I guess I should have realized as I prefer in general to read books that end happily ever after. For me this
was another discovery, I always thought that there were only a few books I would reread, but I was wrong. I guess there is a wider range of books I would reread.
The series I reread was Colorado
Mountain Series by Kristen Ashley
The Gamble
Sweet Dream
Lady Luck
This year the last book, Bounty in this series
should come out in April. I guess I am ready for the new book.
Who taught you how to love books and reading? For me, it was my family specifically my Mom. She made sure that there were always books in our homes. When we were small, the books were at our
level. She did not care if we drew in them or treated them poorly. She did not care if we could read them or had them memorized. She wanted us to be readers.
I did not read until
halfway through first grade. Mrs. Ames and Mom talked about how I had to stay back because I was not reading at all. Somehow over Christmas break, I magically learned how to read. When I went back to school, Mrs. Ames called Mom and congratulated
her on all her work getting me reading. Mom told her that she had not done anything, I was just ready.
My Mom died a few days ago. She read serious books, full of meaning and information.
She loved learning and wanted to always learn more. There were books stacked up in our home, in corners and crevices. There were piles around the end of couches, piles on end tables and stacks on desks and chairs.
The tears this week were for the wonderful woman who knew I would read when I was ready. The woman who didn't censor my reading, but allowed me free range. The woman who made sure I had money when I went into the
bookstore. The woman who spent hours trolling through the books with me and thought a good afternoon outing had to include books somehow, someway. The woman who only read books that were full of meaning and serious.
As she descended into the hell of her dementia, reading became a more painful activity. Slowly she began to read less and less. I noticed the books she read were ones she had previously read. I noticed she had begun to flip through them
instead of reading. The last couple of years, I was not sure how much she could read and understand, but I always made sure she had a paper and a magazine.
Mom died this week after a long protracted
illness. There were tears and laughter as we took one last road trip with her today, a woman who loved learning and wanted us to be readers.
I have been on a reading jag this week. Emotionally this week has been hard so I have read numerous books to push reality back a bit. It might not be the best solution, but it
is the one I am using. And let's face it - we all have ways to destress our lives and beat back the blues.
I reread two of Kristen Ashley's books about the fictional
coastal town of Magdalen, Maine: Soaring and The Will. These books are two of my favorite romantic novels of all times. The main characters
are in their late 40s and seem on the surface to be totally unsuitable for each other! Yet somehow they find each other and make a life with love. The books are longish and they are HOT, bus so good. They are full of hope, love, family and learning to
trust and love all over again. There is another book in this series that I am waiting for about the sheriff in town and I know I can not wait to read it.
I had a series
of Netgalley books to read and review. I have read three ofthem and will work on their reviews this week. They were so different from each other that each one was able to stand out in their own way.
No Cats Allowed by Miranda James is the second book in a cosy mystery series about a part time librarian and his Maine Coon Cat. Murder does follow them and they cannot help themselves
by asking way too many questions! The cast of characters with Diesel (the cat) makes the books a fun read! The book is going to be released Feb 23rd.
A Girl's Guide to Moving On by Deborah Macomber was another great read. The story line was about two women who were cheated on by their husbands (mother-in-law and daughter-in-law). The pain and struggle was evidenced,
but somehow so was the desire for happiness and holding up your head and moving forward. I do not usually read Deborah Macomber books, but that is an error I can fix now. The book reminded me of how hard and confusing life and love can be with
the wrong person and how wonderful with the right person. It was a PC romance that allowed the positiveness to shine. Another release scheduled for Feb 23rd.
Ruthless by Gillian Archer may have jumped the line - by a month or so. It was a fabulous MC book with the True Brother's MC front and center. The main characters are Zag and Jessica - their chemistry almost burns your
fingers! As always MC books are not for the weak kneed readers. Once you read it you will understand why it JUMPED ahead of other books in line. April 12th is its scheduled release date.
Lastly I read two historical romances: The Gentle Knight and The Viscount Who Loved Me. Historical Romances are my go to after bad boy romances.
In each book I was a million miles away, which is part of the point of a reading jag! Ashley York in The Gentle Knight brought me back to the Normandy Invasion and the difficulty of life for a woman,
while giving me a love story for the ages. Julia Quinn brought me the Brigderton Family in The Viscount Who Loved Me. I read the book originally a few years back, but his edition had a
new ending - which was fun.
A reading jag - by my definition must bring you outside yourself into the world of books. These books did that when I needed it. Life is not always
smooth or makes sense. Reading brings to me peace. Happy reading and Happy Valentine's Day.
Tune out all around you. Go into another world. Yes, meditative!
Will read Georgia. I have always been intrigued by her art, raises questions which this book might answer!
According to Pew Research, nearly a quarter of American adults have not read a single book in the past year. How sad! Thanks for picking up the slack!
Thank you for sharing the wonderful and personal story about your mother and her effect on you as a reader. May you continue to find comfort in reading.
Books are indeed a comfort as well as welcomed escape! We are lucky to love reading
Thank you for opening this style of writing with some fine examples. I never thought about this before.
Loved the trend of this meandering. Can picture it all!
Agreed! Intrigue and escape into other worlds!
Really, Marti! Worth relinquishing books for interesting views like that!Good to read about men, too, and conjure up our own variations of wonderful.
Marti, this commentary is beautiful, poignant and an affirmation of living one's own life. Moreover, it is beautifully written!! Right to the heart.
Thank you for a wonderful review of A Wedding at Meadows Shore, and for taking the time to post in several places. Your kindness is very much appreciated! Eva


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At approximately 5:30 p.m.on September 23, a bicyclist was hit by a car at an intersection in Ocean Beach. The intersection of West Point Loma Boulevard and Abbott Street has a yield sign that residents ...
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