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“Creating a novel means moving into the past, the hoped for, the imagined. It is an emotional journey, fraught at times with characters who don't always do or say what a writer wishes.”
― Another Brooklyn
― Another Brooklyn

“I was eleven, the idea of two identical digits in my age still new and spectacular and heartbreaking. The girls must have felt this. They must have known. Where had ten, nine, eight, and seven gone?”
― Another Brooklyn
― Another Brooklyn

“We know everyone we love is going to die, but we don't know it, can't possibly believe it, she thought, or long ago I would have gone and started digging until I had a hole big enough to lie down in.”
― I Will Send Rain
― I Will Send Rain

“At the day's end, a writer lives alone with her story, wrestling with characters and settings, and the way light filters into and out of a scene. The deeper messages often escape her.Sometimes I take for granted the journey through the telling. At other times I curse the muse's power. But through it all, I live each day in deep gratitude.”
― Another Brooklyn
― Another Brooklyn

“She would never have a day that she did not see something and hear a voice in her mind say, “Remember this and then write this.â€� Chapter 6 p. 96”
― The River Bank: A Sequel to Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows
― The River Bank: A Sequel to Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows

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Thanks to everyone for reading, participating and supportingTCPL's 2018 Community Read of "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" by Shirley Jackson. Co ...more

Join us in October for 31 stories in 31 days! Each day, we will discuss a new story from Sherman Alexie's celebrated collection. Published in 2012, " ...more

No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read ...more

~ 2024 Reading Challenge ~ 52 books for 52 weeks. Each week, members read the book of their choice for that week's challenge requirement. ▶︎ CURREN ...more
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