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The Aspern Papers

by Henry James

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"too many narrations and quite few conversations" — Aug 04, 2016 12:26AM

Aug 03, 2016 11:14PM

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Writing Picture Books: A Hands-On Guide from Story Creation to Publication

by Ann Whitford Paul (Goodreads Author)

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"We're in the business of writing engaging stories, not teaching lessons. Leave that to educators."" — Jul 12, 2016 04:00PM

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The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma (The Mysterious Benedict Society, #3)

by Trenton Lee Stewart (Goodreads Author)

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"Stewart really likes to use detailed emotions and gestures in telling his story here. (Well, it helped me to learn new vocabularies.) He could write just a few moments out into many-pages story." — Jul 07, 2016 10:24PM

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Sharon’s Quotes

“One of the secrets of a successful life is to know how to be a little profitably crazy.”
― Josephine Tey, To Love and Be Wise

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“Spiritual discipline: any activity I do by direct effort that will help me do what I cannot now do by direct effort.”
― Mark Buchanan, Your God Is Too Safe: Rediscovering the Wonder of a God You Can't Control

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“William Tyndale’s pioneering translation of the New Testament had appeared in 1526, but before he could complete the Old Testament he was hunted down and put to death as a heretic.”
― Open University, History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past

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“He points out that one of the really tough things is figuring out what questions to ask,” Musk said. “Once you figure out the question, then the answer is relatively easy. I came to the conclusion that really we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask.” The teenage Musk then arrived at his ultralogical mission statement. “The only thing that makes sense to do is strive for greater collective enlightenment,”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future

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“Not everything that offends us should offend us, and not everything that offends us is persecution.”
― Russell D. Moore, Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel

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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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