Sherrie Miranda's Blog, page 45
April 10, 2018
The Soldiers’ Pocket Books That Legitimized Paperbacks
It’s time to donate books again! To whomever needs them. Chinese. African. & yeah, soldiers!
Peace is the beauty of life . . . the triumph of truth.
I especially like this cuz the guy looks trans!
So why do we look at ourselves this way?
“One does not walk into the forest and accuse the trees of being off-center,
Nor do they visit the shore and call the waves imperfect.
So why do we look at ourselves this way?”
~ Tao Te Ching
Art by Jennifer Smith
Text & image source: Rivers in the Ocean https://web.facebook.com/RiversInTheOcean/
Monday Funnies…
It’s after midnight here. We had to take Smokey back to the vets. We have changed his diet. But he keeps looking in the kitchen & on the floor for scraps of food!
Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog
April 5, 2018
You Are Who You Want To Be
Sherrie Miranda’s historically based, coming of age, Adventure novel “Secrets & Lies in El Salvador” is about an American girl in war-torn El Salvador:
http://tinyurl.com/klxbt4y
Her husband made a video for her novel. He wrote the song too.
You can watch it on YouTube or go to my home page:
https://sherriemiranda1.wordpress.com
Greatness simmers in my blood and then goes away. There are moments of clarity when I see things clearly and then everything becomes out of focus, messy. There are flashes of profound awareness and then vague cluelessness returns. An uncontrolable drive, a passion flickers and then dissapears.
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April 2, 2018
A list of the most influential books written by women – how many have you read? Any favourites missing and have they all earned their place…?
Sherrie Miranda’s historically based, coming of age, Adventure novel “Secrets & Lies in El Salvador” is about an American girl in war-torn El Salvador:
http://tinyurl.com/klxbt4y
Her husband made a video for her novel. He wrote the song too.
You can watch it on YouTube or go to my home page:
https://sherriemiranda1.wordpress.com
Here’s The top 20 most influential book written by a woman as voted by the public on twitter (must admit I missed that campaign) with To Kill a Mockingbird at number one. It was organised by the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, the UK’s only annual book award for fiction written by a woman (and once called The Orange Prize).
How many have you read? And is your favourite here?
I’ve read 18 and by chance bought Doddie Smith’s I Capture the Castle today because I’ve heard so many great things about it. The other one I haven’t read is Middlemarch. George Elliot has kind of passed me by, although I have read and enjoyed Silas Marner.
The one that had the biggest impact on me? Probably The Handmaid’s Tale.
The one I like best – Little Women but The Golden Notebook is a close contender –…
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Why we all need to be told stories…Alan Rickman QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
So freakin’ true!
Sherrie Miranda’s historically based, coming of age, Adventure novel “Secrets & Lies in El Salvador” is about an American girl in war-torn El Salvador:
http://tinyurl.com/klxbt4y
Her husband made a video for her novel. He wrote the song too.
You can watch it on YouTube or go to my home page:
https://sherriemiranda1.wordpress.com
Monday Funnies…
Got 8 more hours of Monday here on the West Coast! Doing better, Chris!
March 30, 2018
More truth
Sherrie Miranda’s historically based, coming of age, Adventure novel “Secrets & Lies in El Salvador” is about an American girl in war-torn El Salvador:
http://tinyurl.com/klxbt4y
Her husband made a video for her novel. He wrote the song too.
You can watch it on YouTube or go to my home page:
https://sherriemiranda1.wordpress.com
Adventures and Musings of an Arch Druidess
