Minnie Estelle Miller's Blog
August 28, 2013
TRUTH
Truth can be a bitter pill. If you are not ready to face it, do not write your memoir or autobiography.
It will bring out roaches and rats who will laugh in your face.
Screaming GO AWAY! only returns them to your subconscious. Bitter pills listen for certain words and acts and will take the opportunity to jump out again bringing consequential impact.
But there seems to be one tiny mouse who refuses to exit. IT just sits on its hind legs and stares. Is it mocking or feeling concern? We watch each other until exhaustion pulls me into an uneasy sleep.
A Memoir pending
Minnie E. Miller
Writer, Essayist & Humanist
http://msminerva.wordpress.com/
minnie247@sbcglobal.net
It will bring out roaches and rats who will laugh in your face.
Screaming GO AWAY! only returns them to your subconscious. Bitter pills listen for certain words and acts and will take the opportunity to jump out again bringing consequential impact.
But there seems to be one tiny mouse who refuses to exit. IT just sits on its hind legs and stares. Is it mocking or feeling concern? We watch each other until exhaustion pulls me into an uneasy sleep.
A Memoir pending
Minnie E. Miller
Writer, Essayist & Humanist
http://msminerva.wordpress.com/
minnie247@sbcglobal.net
August 11, 2013
A new posting on wordpress
I have a new WordPress address. It's also my website for the time being.
Please stop by and read "Truth." It's a pre-statement of my coming memoir on writing.
http://msminerva.wordpress.com/
Minnie E Miller
Author and publisher
minnie247@sbcglobal.net
Please stop by and read "Truth." It's a pre-statement of my coming memoir on writing.
http://msminerva.wordpress.com/
Minnie E Miller
Author and publisher
minnie247@sbcglobal.net
February 14, 2013
GalleyCat Reviews
Blogger To Review Every Bestselling Book of the Year Since 1913
By Jason Boog on February 13, 2013 10:23 AM
Blogger Matt Kahn has decided to read and review the bestselling book of the year throughout contemporary history, going back 100 years in his quest. Below, we’ve linked to free eBook copies of the first five books on his list…
Kahn will cover 94 books, starting with The Inside of the Cup by Winston Churchill. The site offers the fascinating opportunity to explore major books that are all but forgotten today. Check it out:
For this blog I plan, among other things, to read and review every novel to reach the number one spot on Publishers Weekly annual bestsellers list, starting in 1913. Beyond just a book review, I’m going to provide some information on the authors and the time at which these books were written in an attempt to figure out just what made these particular books popular at that particular time. I decided to undertake this endeavor as a mission to read books I never would have otherwise read, discover authors who have been lost to obscurity, and to see how what’s popular has changed over the last one hundred years. I plan to post a new review every Monday, with links, short essays, and the like between review posts.
Free Copies of the Bestselling Books of the Year from 1913-1917
1913: The Inside of the Cup by Winston Churchill
1914: The Eyes of the World by Harold Bell Wright (source of the image embedded above)
1915: The Turmoil by Booth Tarkington
1916: Seventeen by Booth Tarkington
1917: Mr. Britling Sees It Through by H. G. Wells
By Jason Boog on February 13, 2013 10:23 AM
Blogger Matt Kahn has decided to read and review the bestselling book of the year throughout contemporary history, going back 100 years in his quest. Below, we’ve linked to free eBook copies of the first five books on his list…
Kahn will cover 94 books, starting with The Inside of the Cup by Winston Churchill. The site offers the fascinating opportunity to explore major books that are all but forgotten today. Check it out:
For this blog I plan, among other things, to read and review every novel to reach the number one spot on Publishers Weekly annual bestsellers list, starting in 1913. Beyond just a book review, I’m going to provide some information on the authors and the time at which these books were written in an attempt to figure out just what made these particular books popular at that particular time. I decided to undertake this endeavor as a mission to read books I never would have otherwise read, discover authors who have been lost to obscurity, and to see how what’s popular has changed over the last one hundred years. I plan to post a new review every Monday, with links, short essays, and the like between review posts.
Free Copies of the Bestselling Books of the Year from 1913-1917
1913: The Inside of the Cup by Winston Churchill
1914: The Eyes of the World by Harold Bell Wright (source of the image embedded above)
1915: The Turmoil by Booth Tarkington
1916: Seventeen by Booth Tarkington
1917: Mr. Britling Sees It Through by H. G. Wells
February 10, 2013
Remembering Slavery
Additional synopsis on the book.
The majority of the slaves interviewed for this project in Chapter 1 lived through the same: brutality; near starvation; constant beatings; worked from dawn to dust; and being sold off if they don’t behave, never sure of what they did wrong.
As strange as this may sound to us, their masters were their mentors, no matter their age. Slaves learned to be “the man of the house” without a house or a wife.
Written in their words, although Gragston’s were clearer with less “slavespeak.” Painful.
“A successful escape could be oh so sweet. Arnold Gragston, a Kentucky slave, ferried scores of slaves across the river to freedom in Ohio before gaining his own liberty.”
“Before I got it, though, I helped a lot of others get theirs. Lawd only knows how many; might have been as much as two-three hundred. It was 'way more than a hundred, I know.
But that all come after I was a young man¬—“grown” enough to know a pretty girl when I saw one, and to go chasing after her, too....”
“One night I had gone to another plantation, 'courtin’, and the old woman whose house I went to told me she had a real pretty girl there who wanted to go across the river and would I take her. I was scared and backed out in a hurry. But then I saw the girl, and she was such a little thing, brown-skinned and kinda rosy, and looking as scared as I was feelin’, so it wasn’t long before I was listenin’ to the old woman tell me when to take her and where to leave her on the other side.
“I didn’t have nerve enough to do it that night, though, and I told them to wait for until tomorrow night. All the next day I kept seeing Mister Tabb laying a rawhide across my back, or shootin’ me, and kept seeing that scared little brown girl back at the house, lookin’ at me with her big eyes and asking me if I wouldn’t just row her across to Ripley. Me and Mr. Tabb lost, and soon as dust settled that night I was at the old lady’s house.
“I don’t know how I ever rowed the boat across the river the current was strong and I was trembling. I couldn’t see a thing there in the dark, but I felt that girl’s eyes. We didn’t dare to whisper, so I couldn’t tell her how sure I was that Mr. Tabb or some of the other owners would “tear me up” when they found out what I had done. I just knew they would find out...
“I didn’t stay in Ripley, though; I wasn’t taking no chances. I went to Detroit and still live there with most of 10 children and 31 grandchildren.
“The bigger ones don’t care so much about hearin’ it now, but the little ones never get tired of hearin’ how their grandpa brought Emancipation to loads of slaves he could touch and feel, but never could see.”
I felt the need to write Mr. Gragston’s remarks last, which ended Chapter 1, “The Faces of Power: Slaves and Owners.” (Pp. 3 – 70)
Next, Chapter 11, “Work and Slave Life: From Can to Can’t”
This book is not an easy read for me, but I’m hanging in.
Minnie E Miller
The majority of the slaves interviewed for this project in Chapter 1 lived through the same: brutality; near starvation; constant beatings; worked from dawn to dust; and being sold off if they don’t behave, never sure of what they did wrong.
As strange as this may sound to us, their masters were their mentors, no matter their age. Slaves learned to be “the man of the house” without a house or a wife.
Written in their words, although Gragston’s were clearer with less “slavespeak.” Painful.
“A successful escape could be oh so sweet. Arnold Gragston, a Kentucky slave, ferried scores of slaves across the river to freedom in Ohio before gaining his own liberty.”
“Before I got it, though, I helped a lot of others get theirs. Lawd only knows how many; might have been as much as two-three hundred. It was 'way more than a hundred, I know.
But that all come after I was a young man¬—“grown” enough to know a pretty girl when I saw one, and to go chasing after her, too....”
“One night I had gone to another plantation, 'courtin’, and the old woman whose house I went to told me she had a real pretty girl there who wanted to go across the river and would I take her. I was scared and backed out in a hurry. But then I saw the girl, and she was such a little thing, brown-skinned and kinda rosy, and looking as scared as I was feelin’, so it wasn’t long before I was listenin’ to the old woman tell me when to take her and where to leave her on the other side.
“I didn’t have nerve enough to do it that night, though, and I told them to wait for until tomorrow night. All the next day I kept seeing Mister Tabb laying a rawhide across my back, or shootin’ me, and kept seeing that scared little brown girl back at the house, lookin’ at me with her big eyes and asking me if I wouldn’t just row her across to Ripley. Me and Mr. Tabb lost, and soon as dust settled that night I was at the old lady’s house.
“I don’t know how I ever rowed the boat across the river the current was strong and I was trembling. I couldn’t see a thing there in the dark, but I felt that girl’s eyes. We didn’t dare to whisper, so I couldn’t tell her how sure I was that Mr. Tabb or some of the other owners would “tear me up” when they found out what I had done. I just knew they would find out...
“I didn’t stay in Ripley, though; I wasn’t taking no chances. I went to Detroit and still live there with most of 10 children and 31 grandchildren.
“The bigger ones don’t care so much about hearin’ it now, but the little ones never get tired of hearin’ how their grandpa brought Emancipation to loads of slaves he could touch and feel, but never could see.”
I felt the need to write Mr. Gragston’s remarks last, which ended Chapter 1, “The Faces of Power: Slaves and Owners.” (Pp. 3 – 70)
Next, Chapter 11, “Work and Slave Life: From Can to Can’t”
This book is not an easy read for me, but I’m hanging in.
Minnie E Miller
January 2, 2013
Goodreads is being honored
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Minnie E Miller
Writer, Essayist & Humanist
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
~~~ Quote from Frederick Douglass
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Minnie E Miller
Writer, Essayist & Humanist
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
~~~ Quote from Frederick Douglass
November 10, 2012
A Free Novel
Please accept my offer of a FREE download of “The Seduction of Mr. Bradley” available on Authorstand. The entire novel is available for download onto an eReader, Kindle Reader, or your computer. It’s in PDF format. I don’t know how long this offer will be available so please hurry! There is a place for review on Authorstand, but I would appreciate you sending a review to my email address
minnie247@sbcglobal.net
Look for Minnie E Miller in the “Recently Added work” column.
http://www.authorstand.com/
Thank you.
Peace.
minnie247@sbcglobal.net
Look for Minnie E Miller in the “Recently Added work” column.
http://www.authorstand.com/
Thank you.
Peace.
September 10, 2012
A small change
As I settle into seniorhood (76 now), and see the literary market in it's present mess, my manuscripts will sit awhile.
It does not mean that I won't be writing. To the contrary, I'll continue to write political essays, articles, and book reviews. My choices are commercial fiction, mysteries, paranormal (love vampire stories), and Sci-Fi.
My website drives me nuts, but love my blogs. Consider this an invitation to visit. Love to hear from you.
http://www.millerscribs.com/blog
Minnie Estelle Miller
It does not mean that I won't be writing. To the contrary, I'll continue to write political essays, articles, and book reviews. My choices are commercial fiction, mysteries, paranormal (love vampire stories), and Sci-Fi.
My website drives me nuts, but love my blogs. Consider this an invitation to visit. Love to hear from you.
http://www.millerscribs.com/blog
Minnie Estelle Miller
May 23, 2012
Truth & Solutions
The 80% Solution by Donald R. BarberaMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I have followed the author closely during the writing of his MS. I know and agree with most of his views on religion. It's up to others as to how they feel about The 80% Solution. Nevertheless, I doubt you'll be bored in your reading.
Religion is a subject "which extends without interruption in either in space or time." Continuous, according to Webster's New World College Dictionary.
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