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Here are some things that happened while I was gone: 1. When you don’t write in your blog, but you keep your feedreader open, you have a lot more time to listen to what other people have to say. 2....
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The BlogLily Summer Reading Program
Although this looks suspiciously like a wooden worm, it is actually a boomerang. I love everything about library summer reading programs, but the thing I love the most is the swag: the little sheet...
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Summer Reading: Prototype
number of staples removed while making this Prototype: 9 Here is what I learned when I made the BlogLily Summer Reading Program Booklet Prototype. 1. I will have to call the finished reading program...
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ChicFic
chicfic is the new ladylit Here is my first BlogLily Summer Reading Program report. Haha. I am ahead of everyone else because I have the prototype program booklet thing in my hands. (Yours goes out...
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Erased
It is a sign of my robust mental health that I have taken in stride the fact that , for the last four or five days, the comments I leave on wordpress blogs never actually show up on those blogs. If you...
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The Beauty of the Bookmark
ha! and you thought birthmarks were hot It was an arts & crafts kind of weekend, blog friends. Specifically, I spent an embarrassing amount of time making bookmarks and booklets and sizing up my...
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French Lessons: Champagne All Around
A few years ago, I did a writing residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida. It was magical, that place. They had a room full of beach cruisers for us to ride — and the ocean wasn’t...
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It’s Sleeping in My Memory
you're breaking my heart, you're shaking my confidence daily For reasons unclear to me, as I was driving to work, some lines from Alexander Pope’s stupendously long poem, An Essay on Criticism, popped...
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The Untailored Spy
I adore George Smiley. You probably do too, because you probably have already read all the John leCarre books that feature him. Lucky me, I had not, which is why I chose two of them as my BlogLily...
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The True Deceiver
I have no idea how I ended up with Tove Jansson’s The True Deceiver in my book bag. (Tove Jansson is the author of the Moomintroll series, which is wonderful also, but in a different way.) Did I see...
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The Spirits of the Air
If Blake is to be believed, the spirts of the air “live in the smells of fruit.” I kid you not. And even better, this all happens in autumn. Investigating this fruit-related issue, I have discovered...
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Finished!
Thrilled. Not as thrilled as William is with his stick, but pretty close. Do you know how you know when your epic, year-long, blog-destroying novel revision is finished? When your agent e-mails you...
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I Pray This Letter is Sent in Haste
they went other places too — but this is where they sold the postcards Dearest Mother, Father, and Brother, I pray this letter is sent in haste [by the efficient Spanish National Postal Service] as I...
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Here’s something kind of cool
In 2006 (eight years ago!!), when I started writing this blog, I remember thinking I’d better keep this thing anonymous because I was going to say all kinds of ridiculous stuff and who really wants...
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