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Theresa’s 2025 Year in Books
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Theresa Griffin Kennedy
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Oregon Greystone Press News!
(PORTLAND, OR) July 29, 2024:
As some of you may know, I am the editor of the Indie publishing company, Oregon Greystone Press. My husband Don DuPay and I created Oregon Greystone Press back in 2015 and have been publishing ever since. Our first publication was my husband's police memoir, "Behind the Badge in River City: A Portland Police Memoir," 2015, which takes on my husband Don's amazing and Read more of this blog post »
As some of you may know, I am the editor of the Indie publishing company, Oregon Greystone Press. My husband Don DuPay and I created Oregon Greystone Press back in 2015 and have been publishing ever since. Our first publication was my husband's police memoir, "Behind the Badge in River City: A Portland Police Memoir," 2015, which takes on my husband Don's amazing and Read more of this blog post »
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| A fun book to read. It was informative and provides a rare look into the world of Portland radio, in the recent 'old days' of the past. My husband and I read the book and thoroughly enjoyed it. They way Bill lays out how he came to work in radio, and ...more | |
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| This book is such an important part of the larger historical picture of Portland, Oregon. Who would have thought to write a book like this? That is what I love about writers and authors. Any topic is open to exploring and later writing about. This bo ...more | |
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| This was such a great book. Full of interesting information. Much of the information was derived from another book, written in 1962, the first edition that is, the more popular edition was published in 2004, but this book leans heavily on the researc ...more | |
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| This book was so lovely to read, so honest, so heartrendingly truthful, you can feel it, that I found myself reading passages more then twice, sometimes even three times, just to absorb them and think about them. And so much of what Lidia shares with ...more | |
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This masterpiece always deserves continued recognition. The ONLY words, in a book, that ever made me weep. The following two paragraphs. For years, I could not read them. It broke me. Scott Turow, he's one of the greatest. ONE: "At times, I admit, I s ...more |
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| Wow. Wow. This was so good. A total thriller, masterfully presented by A.J. Finn/Daniel Mallory. What a smart writer he is. When The Woman in the Window was first published in 2018, Mallory was already working on his second novel, End of Story, which ...more | |
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| Well, I finally read The Glass Castle. WOW. It was amazing. I thought I came from a messed up family. And yet, I had to admire the quirkiness of the Walls parents, Rose and Rex. They were certainly unique. The mother seemed dangerously childlike, and ...more | |
“Don't be like the herd. Think for yourself. When you see yourself falling into the idiocy of Group Think, do the smart thing and remove yourself. You'll be glad you did.”
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“Always support younger writers, and do all you can to nourish that spirit of creativity, and original risk. The unique manner of literary innovation that younger writers may engage in, ultimately is priceless. Writers, poets and authors are the spokespersons for ours and the next generations. Support them, mentor them, protect them from the viciousness of popular opinion, which is generally nothing more than censorship wearing the cloak of righteous indignation.”
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“Anna Schrader was another of the women who came to Portland during the Girl Rush, arriving in 1910. Census records indicate she was married at the age of eighteen, presumably in Minnesota, where she was born and raised. She became a gadfly for the local Portland police and provided them with a great deal of useful information regarding bootlegging during Prohibition. This was possible because of her affair with police lieutenant William Breuning, who had gotten her the job of "private detective.”
― Murder & Scandal in Prohibition Portland: Sex, Vice Misdeeds in Mayor Baker's Reign
― Murder & Scandal in Prohibition Portland: Sex, Vice Misdeeds in Mayor Baker's Reign
“I looked out the hall window across from me as I stood leaning against the wall, and saw the bars on the outside of the windows. The rain trickled down the reinforced misted milk-glass in a constant deluge of melancholy rivulets. It was getting cold - the shadows, the rising turbulent winds, the drifting red and orange leaves were returning once more. I tuned out the sounds of the doctors voices. Soon, I couldn't make out the words they were saying as definite signals meant to convey something. Their words became a dim humming, a song drifting along the periphery of my awareness. And it was then, I knew I would be able to leave. I would go back to my room and take out the violet silk dress, the monstrous talisman I had created, and I would look at it. I might give it away after all. I need to let her go for all the ghosts she carried within her every measured stitch.”
― Burnside Field Lizard and Selected Stories
― Burnside Field Lizard and Selected Stories
“You are the mermaid; I am the mermaid hunter.
You lead me through your wake and I follow,
Knowing my fate.
You swish your tales and the water boils between them:
I sink,
I drown,
going down
to green depths
wordless.
I shall not taste your full sweetness, only
your salt madness;
I will not tell our wild secrets,
For while it lasts, my hollow skull skulks after you,
Lying at times in your cold hands,
To be tossed aside indifferently,
Roll and rise with the tides, fall again,
Come to rest half buried in the sinking
shifting sands.
Anemones be my eyes
As I watch you swimming from me
Laughing.”
― Woman Who Runs with Wolves: Poetry of the Macabre and Other Poems
You lead me through your wake and I follow,
Knowing my fate.
You swish your tales and the water boils between them:
I sink,
I drown,
going down
to green depths
wordless.
I shall not taste your full sweetness, only
your salt madness;
I will not tell our wild secrets,
For while it lasts, my hollow skull skulks after you,
Lying at times in your cold hands,
To be tossed aside indifferently,
Roll and rise with the tides, fall again,
Come to rest half buried in the sinking
shifting sands.
Anemones be my eyes
As I watch you swimming from me
Laughing.”
― Woman Who Runs with Wolves: Poetry of the Macabre and Other Poems
“In 1905, more than 1,700 young women made Portland their home. That trickle soon became a flood, and by 1907 more than 7,000 women a year were coming to Portland look for new lives.”
― Murder & Scandal in Prohibition Portland: Sex, Vice Misdeeds in Mayor Baker's Reign
― Murder & Scandal in Prohibition Portland: Sex, Vice Misdeeds in Mayor Baker's Reign
“The butter was real of course. Daddy had a fetish about using only real butter. As he handed it to me, I noticed the hue was brash and yellow, almost like the artificial color used in the making of cheap Margarine. The boysenberry preserves were recently purchased. The glass had a bright red foil label with intricate embossed wording and as I turned the lid, I heard the sucking sound of the seal breaking. Daddy looked over, concerned, until I carefully laid the jar of jam on the counter, pushing it toward him. "I can do everything Tweetie Bird," he said to me. I smiled, embarrassed at my old nickname from when I was a child and nodded my head.”
― War Stories 2015: an anthology
― War Stories 2015: an anthology
“When Daddy turned back to the slim volume of Benton's poetry, and spoke the following words, I knew he was speaking from his own heart, as he said the words with a new feeling of confidence and authority. I knew those words were his words, too and that somehow Benton had spoken those same words for so many other men who could never personally say them. "...and when the enemy is; the lost, the vacant/the aimless something belched out of a vast and blind explosion/I have no heart for that/Mine is not the skill for overseeing/My hand is not the hand to wield God's flaming sword." His voice quavered brokenly with the last line, as Daddy closed the book gingerly and turned to look at me, embarrassed yet unapologetic. His face tried to smile but couldn't. The tears that had formed in his eyes clung to the dark grey lashes and reflected the light from the setting sun outside. I finally reached over and without saying anything, placed my hand over his.”
― War Stories 2015: an anthology
― War Stories 2015: an anthology
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Angela wrote: "Thank you very much for adding me, Theresa. I look forward to our bookish interactions.Kind regards A"
Oh, thank you so much for the message here. Yes, I have a lot of fun on Goodreads and try to contribute book reviews regularly. :)
Thank you very much for adding me, Theresa. I look forward to our bookish interactions.Kind regards A
Kyle wrote: "Hi Theresa,Thank you kindly for the friend request!
I understand completely your answer, and I agree!
Horror is broad, and means something different to everyone."
Absolutely, but I have begun to write some short horror stories, so I'm experimenting. It can be really fun and liberating....
Hi Theresa,Thank you kindly for the friend request!
I understand completely your answer, and I agree!
Horror is broad, and means something different to everyone.
Ꮗ€♫◗☿ ❤️ wrote: "Theresa,Thanks for the friend request!
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Thank you my lady. :)
Majenta wrote: "Hello, Theresa! Thank you for contacting me! I hope you are well and having a good week. Congratulations on your books! Happy reading, writing, and everything else, and I hope you're having good we..."Thank you for being a part of this fun website. Cheers!
Hello, Theresa! Thank you for contacting me! I hope you are well and having a good week. Congratulations on your books! Happy reading, writing, and everything else, and I hope you're having good weather. Blessings!Best wishes from Majenta
Sandra wrote: "Hi Theresa,Thanks for the friend-invite! :)"
Hi Sandra! Its great to meet you here on Good Reads. Cheers!
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