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Daniel Hardman

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The Christmas I was six, I snuck into a hallway to listen at the bannister as my parents discussed presents in the living room below.

When my parents heard me, they switched into German. That was when I fell in love with language.

I was already hooked on stories by this time. I have memories of Where the Wild Things Are and The Monster at the End of This Book from the dim years before kindergarten, and I recall my parents reading us The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and The Jungle Book over and over again. “Richer than I you can never be…” :-)

Some interesting things about me that may or may not have anything to do with my writing:

I married my wife on our first date. (True story. Sadie Hawkins. There was a “preacher” and a bale of hay righ
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Stacked: a play in one act

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On Lying and Truth-Telling

Our world is full of strident voices calling “Lo here!” and “Lo there!”–and sometimes these voices overwhelm quiet truth. We are constantly being lied to, and lies that we believe have damaging consequences.


When I was young, I thought lying was an act like denying a theft from the cookie jar: a falsehood asserted as true, or a truth declaimed as false. I wasn’t wrong to understand it that way–but

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Just Grandma and Me
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Complete Verse
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The Fly on the Wall
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Terry Pratchett
“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
Terry Pratchett

G.K. Chesterton
“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
G.K. Chesterton

J.R.R. Tolkien
“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
J.R.R. Tolkien

Maya Angelou
“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.”
Maya Angelou

Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Ozymandias"

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Rosalind and Helen: A Modern Eclogue With Other Poems

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message 1: by Karin

Karin looks like you've been busy adding books. :-) I'm excited to be linked to you through this. I love seeing what my friends and family are reading. I've pretty much given up listing all of my past books, unless I come across one while I'm already on here. Although, It's a great place for me to organize what I want to read, so I don't just wander the stacks at the library aimlessly (although, that's not such a bad thing either. ;-) )


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