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April 5, 2017
The Color
What's your favorite color? Mine is blue, always has been and always will be.
Now what color appears MOST in titles?
Join the discussion on A Word in Time where this week's reading recommendations originate in the word COLOR.
Paulette Jiles, Stephen King, Robert Graves, Alice Walker, William Blake.
New authors to try include Melisa E. Arnold, Karen White and Ron Rayborner.
Here's the link: http://www.eileengranfors.com
Now what color appears MOST in titles?
Join the discussion on A Word in Time where this week's reading recommendations originate in the word COLOR.
Paulette Jiles, Stephen King, Robert Graves, Alice Walker, William Blake.
New authors to try include Melisa E. Arnold, Karen White and Ron Rayborner.
Here's the link: http://www.eileengranfors.com
March 21, 2017
Together
A Word in Time is the name of my web site. I take a different word each week, play with its connotations and etymology, and follow up with as many as 14 blurbed books for your TBR.
This week's word is camaraderie. I have just finished reading Zokolov's THE CHOSEN FEW, a heart-breaking look at the paratroopers sent to hold a base in the Wamut Valley, Afghanistan.
Besides the armed services, what other situations create cameraderie? Find some book choices on A Word in Time, http://www.eileengranfors.com
This week's word is camaraderie. I have just finished reading Zokolov's THE CHOSEN FEW, a heart-breaking look at the paratroopers sent to hold a base in the Wamut Valley, Afghanistan.
Besides the armed services, what other situations create cameraderie? Find some book choices on A Word in Time, http://www.eileengranfors.com
March 14, 2017
Lay Down Your Burdens!
The show Million Dollar Quartet is packing them in here in the Branson area. My favorite song was the spiritual, "Down by the Riverside." Mama used to sing it.
I took the refrain (also called a "burden" in music circles) and completed A Word in Time for the idea of the burdens of life. How many burdens are also gifts? What lightens the load when the burden is guilt or grief?
A Word in Time brings you titles suggested around each week's thematic word. Classic books have their own page and then there is a page of "new" reads (new to you?) with historical fiction, adventure, nonfiction, women's fiction, and book club selections.
Something for everyone! Caroline Leavitt, Ron Irwin, Tsioklas, John Steinbeck, and more.
http://www.eileengranfors.com
I took the refrain (also called a "burden" in music circles) and completed A Word in Time for the idea of the burdens of life. How many burdens are also gifts? What lightens the load when the burden is guilt or grief?
A Word in Time brings you titles suggested around each week's thematic word. Classic books have their own page and then there is a page of "new" reads (new to you?) with historical fiction, adventure, nonfiction, women's fiction, and book club selections.
Something for everyone! Caroline Leavitt, Ron Irwin, Tsioklas, John Steinbeck, and more.
http://www.eileengranfors.com
February 27, 2017
We are Family!
A Word in Time this week is all about family. Amanda Eyre Ward, Mona Simpson, and ten other fabulous reads are blurbed. Find a minute to catch the latest on A Word in Time. Remember that back "issues" are found under the blog link.
February 19, 2017
The Microcosm of an Island
Let's hear it for the literature of the island. Whether you look for a physical island or an island of the mind, A Word in Time brings it all to your reading checklist. Remember that I offer short blurbs about books, looking for something different and unusual rather than the standard best sellers or Oprah picks. Richard Connell, Shakespeare (what play did I choose? C'mon, you know!), V.S. Naipul, William Golding, Elizabeth Moon. And more!
http://www.eileengranfors.com
http://www.eileengranfors.com
February 17, 2017
Time for Crime (& Punishment)
A Word in Time is pushing the envelope this week. I am using CRIME AND PUNISHMENT as the word phrase with reading blurbs of books on this topic.
I try to go where you might not venture on your own, so there's no Dostoyevsky.
Amanda Ward Eyre's Sleep Towards Heaven is one of my favorite books. I blurbed it under two categories, women's fiction and book club choices. There's Eli Sanders with his compelling, heartbreaking, uplifting Pulitzer Prize winning, While the City Slept. Alan Sillitoe (short stories), William Blake (poetry/holy books); Leon Uris (classic); Daniel Levine (historical fiction).
If you are always prowling around for new reads, not necessarily best sellers, give A Word in Time a place on your weekly checklist.
I try to go where you might not venture on your own, so there's no Dostoyevsky.
Amanda Ward Eyre's Sleep Towards Heaven is one of my favorite books. I blurbed it under two categories, women's fiction and book club choices. There's Eli Sanders with his compelling, heartbreaking, uplifting Pulitzer Prize winning, While the City Slept. Alan Sillitoe (short stories), William Blake (poetry/holy books); Leon Uris (classic); Daniel Levine (historical fiction).
If you are always prowling around for new reads, not necessarily best sellers, give A Word in Time a place on your weekly checklist.
February 4, 2017
Rip Roaring Reading
I have been on a tear since the New Year started. The books I blurb weekly on A Word in Time have covered art and artists, women warriors, The Resistance, and tomorrow will focus on The Bully Pulpit!
A Word in Time includes as many as 10 suggestions for books on the week's word as well as a link to a famous poem.
When you get to the web site, don't forget to subscribe as a member and to leave a comment or two.
Happy reading! Eileen
A Word in Time includes as many as 10 suggestions for books on the week's word as well as a link to a famous poem.
When you get to the web site, don't forget to subscribe as a member and to leave a comment or two.
Happy reading! Eileen
January 17, 2017
A Word in Time: Artist
I have updated the web site this week to look at books about art and artists. It was very hard to choose books because this is one of my favorite subjects.
If I could go back to college, I would major in art history. For those who loved Girl With a Pearl Earring, the web site offers up some new and different choices.
Please visit, http://www.eileengranfors.com
If I could go back to college, I would major in art history. For those who loved Girl With a Pearl Earring, the web site offers up some new and different choices.
Please visit, http://www.eileengranfors.com
January 12, 2017
Back in the Driver's Seat
I have picked myself up from the holiday season and strapped on my writing gear.
My web page is updated. The Word in Time for this week is "apocalyptic." I am still coping with sorrow over the election. Nevertheless, the pages offer many great reads if you don't mind a dash of apocalypse.
http://www.eileengranfors.com
My writing folder is beginning to burst at the seams, so it must be time to start a new book!
My web page is updated. The Word in Time for this week is "apocalyptic." I am still coping with sorrow over the election. Nevertheless, the pages offer many great reads if you don't mind a dash of apocalypse.
http://www.eileengranfors.com
My writing folder is beginning to burst at the seams, so it must be time to start a new book!
December 20, 2016
BEST of 2016
I love checking out lists of favorite books. I compiled my favorites on my blog yesterday.
Go to the web page for A Word in Time, Http://www.eileengranfors.com. Click on the second link. You will find my top 10 for fiction and non-fiction and top choices for anthologies.
Go to the web page for A Word in Time, Http://www.eileengranfors.com. Click on the second link. You will find my top 10 for fiction and non-fiction and top choices for anthologies.
