Terry Shames's Blog: 7 Criminal Minds, page 59

Who knew? (I knew.) by Catriona

 Reading: The building's on fire - what books do you save?

As Susan said on Monday, this is not a theoretical exercise for those of us who live in northern California. In the summer of 2020, the wildfire evacuation line got within three miles of my house (the fire itself was five miles off, but clearly visible day and night). I put all paperwork from birth certificate to tax receipts in one suitcase and a selection of clothes for the two of us in another. That's what Case 1 and Case 2 stand for o...

No hard choices here... by Cathy Ace

Reading: The building’s on fire, what books do yousave?

NOTE: I shall assume every life is saved, and there’s nodanger involved with rescuing “things”, because I’m sure we all agree thatthings don’t matter at all if anyone’s health or wellbeing is in jeopardy.

First of all: 

NOT BOOKS – sorry! – but all the albumscontaining photos I haven’t yet saved digitally. Yes – not words at all, butimages that are irreplaceable. Why? I recently spent weeks sorting through ALLmy family’s 70+ photo albums...

Of Fire and Forgiveness by Gabriel Valjan

The building’s onfire, what books do you save?

 

In loco parentis.The Latin phrase means ‘in place of a parent.’ Today, I am the writer asked torescue someone else’s child, and anyone who knows me knows I’m a driven person,an impatient person, especially with myself, and I dislike (intensely) talkingabout myself.

 

Like the mother asked who is her favorite child, my answerspeaks volumes (couldn’t resist the pun). What a person reads may betray the...

Fire! Fire!

 Q: The building’s on fire, what books do you save?

-from Susan

 

Not entirely hypothetical here in CA, alas. Not that I’d add a book to my go-bag with computer, two cat carriers, and box of documents, but if I could load the car with a small box of books, let’s see…

 

Honesty demands I admit the first books would be my own 6 novels in their various print and audio formats. With that out of the way, I’d be looking at my long shelf of signed and personalized books by writers I admire, among them sever...

Ignorance is Strength

 by Abir

If you could take a literary pilgrimage vacation, where would it be? What writer or work would you celebrate?

 

Take a journey. That’s what the missive said. A literary pilgrimage. 

 

I should have realised at the time that it was not real. A false memory. Still, for reasons I now cannot fathom, I did what was asked. It was not far after all. A journey of forty minutes into London. Forty minutes and almost forty years in time.

 

I remember the walk to the station as though it was a dream…which...

A Journey to the Past from James W. Ziskin

If you could take a literary pilgrimage vacation, where would it be? What writer or work would you celebrate?

Indulge me today as my literary pilgrimage is to my own past and my very first published story. “The Priest and the Monsignor” appeared in 1984 in The Ball State University Forum. At the time, I was a graduate student living in Philadelphia and was constantly moving from one rotten apartment to another. I submitted my story but changed addresses and never received an answer from the edito...

The wild card

Wild Card Question. If you could take a literary pilgrimage vacation, where would it be? What writer or work would you celebrate?’

by Dietrich

I wrote a recent post here on literary pilgrimages, so I’m going to focus on a twist of the second part of the question and celebrate writers and their work. 

Let me start with this group of talented authors who reside within these imaginary walls — the Minds. I’ve had the honor of being among these very talented individuals for some time, and I’ve had ...

A Visit to the Author

 

Terry here, answering our question of the week: If you could take a literary pilgrimage vacation, where would it be? What writer or work would you celebrate?
 Does the question mean do I so revere a writer that I want to breathe the air they breathed, stand next to the desk they worked at, touch their writing implements, stroll in their garden, buy postcards in their town, hear the language they would have heard. Why? Is it in the wild hope that some of the magic will rub off? The reason I ask ...

Visiting the uat

 

Terry here, answering our question of the week: If you could take a literary pilgrimage vacation, where would it be? What writer or work would you celebrate?
 Does the question mean do I so revere a writer that I want to breathe the air they breathed, stand next to the desk they worked at, touch their writing implements, stroll in their garden, buy postcards in their town, hear the language they would have heard. Why? Is it in the wild hope that some of the magic will rub off? The reason I ask ...

Tapping into my Fan Girl

If you could take a literary pilgrimage vacation, where would it be? What writer or work would you celebrate?

Brenda kicking off the week.

Such a good question. One that makes me think long and hard. Combining an author I admire with a location I'd like to visit. Hmmm.

I already wrote in an earlier blog post about tracking down Hemingway's watering hole when my husband and I were in Paris last year. We looked up the address and walked the length of the Champs-Élysées and cutting into the shopping d...