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Sheila Balls
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in North Bay Ontario, Canada
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anne lamott garrison keillor
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Hold hands and move forward
Towards morning but still fully dark I am wakened by the soft pad of a cat stepping carefully across the bed to look into my face: “Are you awake?”
I used to write then, up at the lake, those nights I could not sleep, but it has been a long time since I felt like writing through the dark hours . . . maybe because of the “dark hours” we have gone through in our own life.
In those years we lived in Read more of this blog post »
I used to write then, up at the lake, those nights I could not sleep, but it has been a long time since I felt like writing through the dark hours . . . maybe because of the “dark hours” we have gone through in our own life.
In those years we lived in Read more of this blog post »
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All Right So Far
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Somebody Move the Cat!
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2003
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Our Side of the Fence: Tales from the Not-So-Deep Woods
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Our Side of the Fence
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Walk This Way
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Sheila’s Recent Updates
"John Boyne dedicates this sprawling novel to John Irving and that, in my opinion, is no accident. John Irving’s works are characterized by two key themes: the absent parent who looms large in his/her offspring’s life, and the role of predetermination"
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"Charlie Donlea uses the current trend of genetic research as the basis for his latest thriller, Long Time Gone. Dr. Sloan Hastings is in training to be a forensic pathologist. When her research project calls for forensic DNA tracking, she submits her"
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"Long Time Gone by Charlie Donlea
Narrated by Vivienne Leheny Dr. Sloan Hastings, an in training forensic pathologist, has always known she was adopted and the little that her adopted parents could tell her about her birth mom was enough for her. She's " Read more of this review » |
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I came looking for the book after seeing the series. One scene in the second year is probably the most touching scene I have ever seen on a screen in
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| In a style reminiscent of William Kent Krueger with a dash of Garrison Keillor thrown in, Sean Dietrich gives us a window into small town life in the 1950s through main character sheriff Winston Browne. The tiny town Moab is obsessed with the Brookly ...more | |
"The Incredible Winston Browne by Sean Dietrich
Narrated by the author I loved this audiobook and wish I could have spent more time with Winston and the people he loved. Taking place in the mid 50s, the story sets us down in Moab, Florida, population 91" Read more of this review » |
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“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
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“Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.”
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“No story sits by itself. Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“If thou of fortune be bereft,
and in thy store there be but left
two loaves, sell one, and with the
dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.”
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and in thy store there be but left
two loaves, sell one, and with the
dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.”
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