Laurie Graff's Blog: The FrogBlog, page 9

When is Breeding Time for Frogs?

Whenever they are feeling groovy and they know the time is right…!

Hanukkah Wishes from Frankie Frog

So you say tonight’s the first candle?

Spoiler Alert: the end of “The Age of Innocence”

So I was kind of heartbroken when Newland was finally to be reunited with the Countess Olenska, thanks to his grown son, and yet he did not accompany Dallas up to her Paris flat.  Frozen with fear he waited on the bench downstairs and after awhile chose to go back to his hotel alone.  The End.  Or was it?  I believe that is where the book ended, but not the story.  And that something did happen between them.  Perhaps not that night, but maybe the next day or the following week.  Decisions of the heart can be a low burn, and sometimes just need time to percolate.  What do you think?  I want to know.

Want to Craft a Really Good Lie?

“No: but my going is,” he answered… wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.

Newland Archer made this astute observation when he schemed to rendez-vous with the Countess Olenska in Edith Wharton’s, The Age of Innocence, which I am reading for the first time and loving.

Listen to Frogs on Audible.com

Check it out – it’s narrated by me!

Turkey and Frogs

It is Thanksgiving, and I’m grateful You Have to Kiss a Lot of Frogs - my first and favorite novel – is back on the stands.  Keep eating.  And keep kissing.

Where do frogs go in winter?

What, no BF?

Many bury themselves in the mud, others just drop to the bottom of the pond.

Are there real frogs in the Turtle Pond – Cental Park, NYC

The Frogs Are Back: Kissing and Screaming

 

Love the new cover – looks like a Monet painting.