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Author Interview with Larry Enright

Name: Larry Enright

Name of book: Four Years from Home

Book genre: mystery

Date Published: 10/2010

Publisher: Self

What is your day job? I do research at a university.

What is your book about (in a few sentences)? It is the story of the eldest child in an Irish Catholic family and his search to find his brother. During the journey, this thoroughly unlikable young man must come to grips with his own failings and the truth about himself and his brother in an inexorable journey of discovery and...

For All You Vegan Lovers Bean Salad

Bean Salad Chie Sonia

Ingredients
1 can Northern beans drained
1 can red beans drained
1 can black beans drained
1 large red onion slices thin
1 close garlic mashed
Pepper to taste
Pinch of Cayenne
1/4 cup olive oil
4 lemons squeezed
-or- 1/4 cup lemon juice
1 large beef tomato (optional)
Directions

1- Rinse all the beans together and set in colander to get rid of excess water.
2- Place onions, garlic, pepper, olive oil, Cayenne, and lemons in a stainless dish bowl and set aside for 10 ...

Mysteries of Udolpho by Anne Radcliffe

I read this book in its entirety. Yes, I managed to finish the epic written before women knew where they stood in life. Instead of giving you my own review, I will share a review with you from one of the funniest writers I know. Not only is she a delight but a snarky funny one at that who writes eloquently. I share with you the review by Sherri on Goodreads.

Enjoy her writing as much as the people who know her do.

*** for the book. I could not stand more than that. Glad it is over though!

Intelligent Eloquence Takes Practice

Today I send you to a site that bears no explanation other than to say, "Please enjoy the amazing words of intelligent eloquence."

Headphones recommended at work, turn down the volume, upsetting the neighbors, well they know where you live:  Buzzfeed's "Scathing Witty Insults"

If You Want To Be Loved No Matter What, review

Oldie but Goodie!

 

For the ladies who love a good light hearted love story, I offer an evening with John Cusak, the boy next door. In this lovely romance this wonderful young man falls in love with the geek of the year. She is lovely but very studious. He makes her laugh and that is why she went out with him and eventually fell in love.

 

To answer her father when he asked him what will you do with your life, he responds, "I will do what I am good at. I will be with your daughter. I am good at b...

Should Feed Fat Partner Fatty Food?

Dear Baba Rumcake,

If your bf/gf liked to eat lots of fatty foods and was already a little overweight, would you feed them more of it?

Wondering Partner

Dear Wondering Partner,

Why don't you leave the eating habits of your partner to them. There is no need for this push to make things for your partner if they like to eat crap. If they do, let them make it themselves. What is the need for pushing? We say for people to avoid pushing drugs now you want to push bad food?
Stay the hell out of it. Let t...

Honor, Courage, Service; Gratitude!

30 authors are thanking our Coalition Troops with this event, Blog Tour de Troops.

Hopefully you just came from Joel Goldman Mystery / Thriller writer. After leaving an email address here in the comment section for your *FREE* eBook copy of  "Pen, Paper, Action!", swing by Dawn Wilson, Literary & Women's Fiction writer for her *FREE* eBook.

When you put your email address in the comment sections of this Blog Tour you are also giving a *FREE* eBook to one our Troops. Send your friends over for a...

Egyptian Moussaka Hot or Cold

Egyptian Moussaka

This is considered a poor man's food. It is vegetarian and could even be Vegan if the cream is not added on the top for baking.

It takes a little doing with the frying and all but well worth the effort for the taste.

Enjoy!

Ingredients:

2 large eggplants
1 large onion sliced thin
4 cloves garlic (mashed)
2 large cans tomato puree
2 inches Vegetable or olive oil in frying pan
Salt and pepper to taste.

Directions:

Peel and slice eggplants half an inch thickness.Salt and set aside...

Should Parents Make Siblings Donors

Our freedom of choice, our freedom to our bodies, the need to be in control of our own physical well being comes crashing down around the ears of these parents in this wonderfully written book by Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper.

It is a great shame that the producer and director of the movie felt it necessary to change the amazing ending that Picoult set in her book. If you have watched the movie first, please read the book and disregard the trite ending of Hollywood and the muck they made...

Write From Your Heart

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader." Robert Frost

I have written before about the need for passion and a desire to be heard. Writing is an act of discovery of words and desires of expression. Nothing happens if you do not cry when you want your reader to cry. If you are moved by your own writing, in all probability your reader will be moved. If nothing of the passion you describe affects you yourself, chances are the same...