Sarah Zama's Blog, page 27
March 20, 2020
Irish (Frank McCourt)
"I think there's something about the Irish experience - that we had to have a sense of humor or die" - Frank McCourt
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March 15, 2020
Living the Twenties (#AtoZChallenge 2020) Theme Reveal
The 1920s sound a lot like us, a time of wild change and insecurities and yet great hope for the future. I think they can teach us a lot about ourselves. Maybe they can teach us how to bring our Twenties someplace different.
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The Frozen Maze – Episode 18 – Come with Me to the Dorf
“Tell me something, aunty,” Ingeborg almost pleaded. “Grete’s plan makes sense. I know we should play along. Then tell me why I don’t want to.”
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March 12, 2020
Rosie’s Trouble by Ann Carroll (book review)
Rosie wants to learn what happened to a friend of her grandma's who disappeared after the Bloody Sunday of 1920. Unexplicably, she finds herself back then
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March 8, 2020
The Frozen Maze – Episode 17- Late Lunch
Episode 17 Late Lunch Ingeborg entered the library and found Dagmar and Grete already waiting. “Sorry for the delay,” she said, closing the door behind her. She had to change for dinner in record time after her trip across the meadow. Grete brushed the matter away with the hand holding her cigarette. Smoke curled around […]
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March 6, 2020
Gang Roundup – March 2020
GANG ROUNDUP (March 2020) Although the life of women advanced in many respects in the 1920s, a lot of restrictions, both social and work-wise, were still in place
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March 1, 2020
The Frozen Maze – Episode 16 – Across the Meadow
THE FROZEM MAZE by Sarah Zama - A Snow White Retelling set in 1920s Germany
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February 23, 2020
The Frozen Maze – Episode 15 – He Surprised Me
Episode 15 He Surprised Me Elsie gathered all the ashes on her fire-shovel and dumped it in the tin bucket. Then she used the shovel to move the ambers around, so that they could breathe and glow and when she was happy with it, added some more logs from the other tin bucket. She liked […]
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February 17, 2020
Kindness (Annie Lennox)
"Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world" - Annie Lennox
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February 16, 2020
The Frozen Maze… Sorry, I’m Late Again…
Errrr… I’m afraid this short pause will last another week. Unfortunately, last week was a disaster in terms of writing. I worked overtime almost the entire week and couldn’t scrape up time enough to write. I did read through the next act, though, and discovered there is more to revise then I anticipated. I hadn’t […]
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