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Margaret Jean Langstaff

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	Marlin, Darlin': Garnet Sullivan Live from Florida #1 3.65 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	HOME FOR CHRISTMAS: Best Loved Stories of All Time by Margaret Jean Langstaff (Goodreads Author), O. Henry, Grace S. Richmond 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unbearable Lightness of Prunes 2.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dead goat Scrolls 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Psalms for Women: God's Gift of Joy and Encouragement really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2000	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alternative Medicine 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Devil, the Diva and the Deep Blue Sea 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Twilight's Indian Princess: Book 1 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	CHEAP THRILLS: New Stories it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ladies Man it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Humility is an essential quality in writers who want to write well.”
― Margaret Jean (Peggy) Langstaff, Marlin, Darlin': Garnet Sullivan Live from Florida #1

tags: writers, writing, writing-craft, writing-process

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“. . . a sense of humor is a sense of proportion. It is also a sense of delight--delight in noting life has its incongruities and absurdities and that we can live in spite of them." --John Frederick Nims (WESTERN WIND: AN INTRODUCTION TO POETRY)”
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“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
― Alexander Pope, Poetry and Prose of Alexander Pope

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“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

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“Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.”
― Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker

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“Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . .”
― Michael M. Lewis, Panic!: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity

tags: obvious, retrospect

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“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: enjoy-life, fearlessness, live-in-the-moment

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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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message 15: by Erik F.

Feb 24, 2014 03:12PM

Nice to meet you, Margaret. Yes, Flannery O'Connor's best stories are as good as it gets!

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message 14: by Christine

Apr 05, 2013 04:32AM

Thanks for being my friend

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message 13: by Lisa

Feb 14, 2013 06:56AM

Hi Margaret -- Thank you for the friendly invitation. I look forward to sharing views on literature. Cheers!

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message 12: by Kim

Dec 19, 2012 03:23PM

Thank you for the friend request, Margaret. I look forward to reading your reviews and chatting about books.

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message 11: by Margaret

Dec 01, 2012 05:39AM

You are so welcome, Kevis! Another interesting, literate GR friend!

Margaret

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message 10: by Kevis

Nov 30, 2012 02:53PM

Thanks for adding me, Margaret.

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message 9: by Margaret (last edited Dec 07, 2011 07:01AM)

Dec 02, 2011 03:21PM

Georges wrote: "...Hi Margaret....thank you for your friendship!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! from Volos GREECE Happy happy reading!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

My pleasure! from frigid (tonight) Florida! I got my books (hum-hum-hum) to keep me warm!

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message 8: by Tamara

Nov 28, 2011 03:23PM

Hi Margaret~! Thanks for your friendship =D

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message 7: by Margaret

Jul 01, 2011 07:26AM

I thought I'd just post this recent msg to a new friend (in response to his question) to see what other authors and readers think is "appropriate," tasteful author self-promotion. Welcome any comments:

"Hey, Tony, new friend! Sure, I promote my books, but I am sensitive to many readers' justifiable, I think, resentment of authors using every opportunity, even when they're purportedly discussing other people's books, to crow about their own. It's a turn-off, back-fires on the self-promoting author and is just bad manners IMHO. I just try to keep a lid on it and not be obnoxious, know what I mean? Yep, I do links and titles in some signatures, but I make an effort to be scrupulous about not interjecting "me" into every conversation that comes up. Maybe I am too sensitive about this. I look at my book sales and wonder some days. But then they'll trend up again because someone has read one or more and is spreading the good word by word-of-mouth (much more effective and convincing than any spiel I could muster!).

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message 6: by Margaret

Feb 07, 2011 07:58AM

Hi, great to meet you!

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Feb 07, 2011 04:46AM