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Nancy’s 2019 Year in Books
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Nancy Schoellkopf
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Born
Sacramento, California, The United States
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Margaret Atwood, Sue Monk Kidd, Alice Hoffman, Barbara Kingsolver
Member Since
March 2012
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Yellow-Billed Magpie
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2015
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2 editions
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Red-Tailed Hawk (#2)
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Ghost Owl
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2017
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2 editions
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Rover: And Other Magical Tales
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Wild Imaginings - Flash Fiction and Essays
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Wagons
Years ago I had a student named Joseph who was deaf and mute and on the autism spectrum. He was 9 years-old, with big brown eyes, and sandy hair. I loved him and I knew he trusted me. When it was time to come in from the playground, he could not hear the bell, so I would stretch my arms wide and he would run across the yard to hug me. If he didn’t want to come in he would pointedly cover his e
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| I read "Where'd you Go, Bernadette" a few years back when my brother gave it to me for Christmas. I thought it was laugh-out-loud funny. But now that I'm seeing TV commercials for the new Richard Linklater/Cate Blanchette movie, I'm wondering if I mi ...more | |
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Every summer I go in search of a book I can fall in love with. A book that will capture my imagination with poetic language, fascinating characters, and a compelling story. A book I can’t put down. As the weather warmed, and I became too lazy to get o ...more |
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| I recently read The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (see my review, May 30, 2019, https://nancyschoellkopf.com/2019/05/...). When I saw reviewers draw comparisons between "Lemon cake" and "Chocolate", I decided to give Laura Esquivel's story a seco ...more | |
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| Don't you love it when you fall madly in love with a book? The Red Garden is that un-put-downable book for me. It was an unexpected treat since it’s not my favorite form—a set of interlocking short stories. Each tale takes place in the Massachusetts ...more | |
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| I recently read The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (see my review, May 30, 2019, https://nancyschoellkopf.com/2019/05/...). When I saw reviewers draw comparisons between "Lemon cake" and "Chocolate", I decided to give Laura Esquivel's story a seco ...more | |
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| Varina is a beautiful book, because Charles Frazier writes some of the most beautiful, lyrical sentences of any author writing prose today. His words force the reader to slow down and savor every lovely description, to open oneself to the metaphors a ...more | |
“There are no sh*thole countries. There is only one Earth and we all arose from her water and mud.”
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“He felt again the presence of invisible cities, here in the moist soil of his back yard, providing shelter for his fears, his memories, and every mythic animal that had ever visited him whether on earth plane or dreamscape.”
― Red-Tailed Hawk
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“It is our greatest desire to see our own ideas of perfection manifest, but we must be open to the idea that God's perfection may not look the way we want it to.”
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Inspire and be Inspired! Welcome to Inspiring Book Club where you can talk about your all-time favorite book that has inspired you the most, and helpe ...more
Magic Realism
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Magic realism is a global and varied mode of literature, from the early twentieth century European works which made the everyday seem magical, to the ...more
