Tag: stories
member name: Becky Powell
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May 13, 2008 04:17 PM EDT --
"Now what I want is, facts," said Tilda. "None of this storybook crap for me." She dropped her cigarette, and crushed it with her shoe
"Stories . . .
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May 28, 2008 09:49 AM EDT --
This wino was dumpster-diving in the alley, brittle and bent like a dead plant. Not unusual.
Mrs. Darcy always goes out before daylight to water her red geraniums. . . .
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June 09, 2008 09:14 AM EDT --
They say walk a mile in someone's shoes to understand another's life. Nobody sought that from me. I was new once, I suppose, but can't remember if I once trod a better . . .
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March 31, 2008 07:57 PM EDT --
Naomi slid out of bed so she could shower first, before Jack could make the bathroom steamy and damp. Getting out of the shower, she realized she'd forgotten her robe. She carefully . . .
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April 08, 2008 01:20 PM EDT --
She put her last eight cigarettes beside a clean ashtray. After the last eight, she'd quit. It was too little, too late, but still. First cigarette to calm her nerves. . . .
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March 26, 2008 09:27 AM EDT --
An unimpeachable source, refusing to be named in order to remain anonymous, divulged today that John McCain would absolutely die for controversial mega-star prophet Tom Cruise as his running . . .
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February 27, 2008 10:02 AM EST --
You were a stranger three doors down
A skeleton with yellow onion skin
A used-up smoker's heart.
Twice each day you walked past my house.
First downhill, with eyes cast down . . .
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March 02, 2008 02:33 PM EST --
Fate gifted Beth, at forty, with a sudden and wicked understanding of the concept of time. The reality of what she had left of life hit her like an existential brick wall. For the entire year . . .
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March 15, 2008 12:35 PM EDT --
Don't look, I told myself. I didn't want to see what the anchor woman liked to do after three martinis. But it wasn't as easy as turning away, this new . . .
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April 29, 2008 01:26 PM EDT --
No one should have to dance backward all of their lives. ~Jill Ruckelshaus
Feminist criticism focuses on assumptions about gender in literature and how these assumptions . . .
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May 22, 2008 08:27 AM EDT --
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin, Vintage Books,1998.
Haruki Murakami's The Wind-up Bird Chronicle is a fat, ambitious book that . . .
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April 29, 2008 03:33 PM EDT --
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician . . .
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April 10, 2008 09:11 PM EDT --
Looking back at the pivotal moments in our lives, it's hard not to wonder what might have happened if we'd taken a different fork in the road. In her new book, The End of an Error . . .
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March 31, 2008 05:19 PM EDT --
Last night I said farewell to old friends. I left them where they were and walked down the dirt road that led through town. I passed through the heavy gates that protected the . . .
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February 25, 2008 10:48 AM EST --
One goal I set for my son in reading this year was to try kinds of reading he had not tried before. He reads almost exclusively graphic novels. When I first heard the term "graphic novel," . . .
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March 18, 2008 09:11 AM EDT --
Study Notes #1
"Literature is no one's private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves."
--Virginia . . .
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March 24, 2008 08:59 PM EDT --
Putting it in Context
Imagine your editor asks you to write a literary critique of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. What factors would shape how you analyze the book? . . .
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January 25, 2008 09:22 AM EST --
Welcome to you folks who have joined this group! Let's get some book talk going. Tell us what you are reading now and why you are reading it. (i.e., for school, to learn something, the . . .
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March 17, 2008 11:26 AM EDT --
I'm changing things up a bit at Book Talk. I realized that my attempts to get reading discussions rolling over the last few weeks have been pretty lame. I've gotten some nice . . .
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April 07, 2008 03:44 PM EDT --
Long ago in a faraway desert, a man of whom we know nothing decided that the words he had scratched onto clay were not conventional accounting signs numbering legal decrees or heads of cattle, . . .
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