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Mike’s 2025 Year in Books
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Mike Crowl
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Hair and there
First published in Column 8 on the 14thOctober, 1992
Some articles in newspapers are published to fill aninconvenient gap. But how in the first place some of these reprints get pasteven the busiest of sub-editors is a mystery.
One northern newspaper recently printed a piece reporting USstudies on beards, eyes and faces. The author began with the fatuous statement –I suppose he had to start som
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I've read this a couple of times, and probably the latter half more than twice. King has a distinctive way of writing which won't be a model for everyone. He claims to write one draft, then goes through it and gets rid of the adverbs and adjectives. ...more |
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These were interesting, and plainly Woolf had considerable insight into the work of other authors, but one or two of them headed off into obscurity, it seemed: they were readable, but not particularly comprehensible! The subtitle - On How to Read - se ...more |
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“She looked Toby straight in the eye and said very distinctly, ‘My mother always told me there are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
― Grimhilda! - a fantasy for children - and their parents
― Grimhilda! - a fantasy for children - and their parents
“One of the women leaped up from her chair. She seemed to grow taller as she stood. Her long diamond earrings not only caught the sun and blinded you, but jangled and knocked against her cheekbones with a sharp tapping sound. ‘Curse those who cursed it!’ she cried, flinging her arms wildly about her, in a way that didn’t at all suit her formal attire.”
― The Mumbersons and The Blood Secret
― The Mumbersons and The Blood Secret
“More important than our health?’ she replied. ‘Hasthma, Mr Map! That’s what being stuck in that cupboard’ll lead to: Hasthma with a capital H!”
― Grimhilda! - a fantasy for children - and their parents
― Grimhilda! - a fantasy for children - and their parents
“I have always been a lover of the sun, even if, through spending a lifetime in Ireland, I have had little personal connection with it.”
― A History of Loneliness
― A History of Loneliness
“Controlling people do not like to be controlled. Controlling people do not like to have their agendas obstructed.”
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“She looked Toby straight in the eye and said very distinctly, ‘My mother always told me there are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
― Grimhilda! - a fantasy for children - and their parents
― Grimhilda! - a fantasy for children - and their parents
“We are not all born at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later... Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”
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Hello, Mike! Thank you for contacting me. Happy Monday, I hope you're having a great week. Congratulations on your books! Happy reading, writing, and everything else. Blessings!Best wishes from Majenta
