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Dystopia Challenge Wrap Up
This year I participated in Bookish Ardour’s Dystopia Challenge at the level of “Asocial” (5 books). I read: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins Mockingjay by Suzanne...
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Fantasy Reading Challenge Wrap Up
Here’s my wrap up post for the 2011 Fantasy Reading Challenge I participated in. I entered at the “Fascinated” level (6 books), but I read a few more than that. Bewitching Season by Marissa Doyle...
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On Welcome to Bordertown
I have a new ambition: to write a Bordertown story. I would love to be published in a Bordertown anthology someday. I’m not sure that’s likely, but who knows? Somehow, I missed the older...
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Catch Up
Wow, I’ve been seriously neglecting this blog. Where have the past four months gone? I’ve been busier with my new baby, but that really isn’t enough of an excuse. After all, I’ve been finding time to...
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Wisteria (Part I)
Here is a fairy tale that I wrote last year: Wisteria or The Ugliest of Them All by Amanda Von Hoffmann I Parents leave their children in the woods for two reasons: They cannot afford to feed their...
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Wisteria (Part II)
Here is part two of “Wisteria or The Ugliest of Them All.” Read part one here. II I sweep the crone’s floors, tend her garden, and clip her yellowed toenails after her bath. She teaches me how to make...
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Wisteria (Part III)
Here it the final part of the fairy tale. Read part one here. Wisteria or The Ugliest of Them All III I live as if I am the old crone, luxuriating in the feather bed instead of huddling under my...
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Teaser Tuesdays 8.21.12
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read• Open to a random page• Share two (2) “teaser”...
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2012 Reading Recap
34 books. That’s all I’ve read in 2012. That isn’t even a sad two pages on my goodreads “shelf.” And I’ve reviewed so few of those 34 books–just slapped a quick rating on them. I’ve been too busy....
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On The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
“I found a dead body in the cucumber patch,’ I told them. ‘How very like you,’ Ophelia said, and went on preening her eyebrows.” ~ Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, pg 35 The...
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Teaser Tuesday
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser”...
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