friendship
July 7, 2009
- Yesterday I had an overdue visit with my mom, Betty, who lives in Novato. In the course of relating an anecdote about a recent medical adventure, she described someone as “you know...that friend of mine who I don’t like so much...” and went on to tell her story. Later, thinking about my mother’s matter-of-fact statement, I discovered that it raises some questions, “uh, then why do I ...
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June 24, 2009
- John The Revelator by Peter Murphy (Book Review)John The Revelator is a great debut novel by Peter Murphy. It is published by Faber and Faber and its ISBN is 0571240208. This is a quirky coming of age tale. It is well written in evocative and beautiful prose. The story is not original but it is an interesting account of the pain and agony of being an illegitimate child in old rural Ireland and ...
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June 16, 2009
- Sometimes I get discouraged. Discouraged over life, the state of the world, etc., on microcosmic and macrocosmic levels. I’ve even thought I could write a blog and entitle it: What the H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks is Wrong With People?, and never lack for subject matter. While I know I’m not alone in this feeling, it isn’t something I enjoy. I also don’t find the thought that there might be ...
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June 12, 2009
- "...When you wake up at five in the morning to continue reading, you know that the book has pulled you in! Written with both passion and restraint, the book resonates with the reader throughout. ""All I can say is how poignant, how haunting, how memorable your story!""...a sudden, violent summer storm in the fields of new-mown hay; the tide receding from a rocky shore; a ...
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June 12, 2009
- "...When you wake up at five in the morning to continue reading, you know that the book has pulled you in! Written with both passion and restraint, the book resonates with the reader throughout. ""All I can say is how poignant, how haunting, how memorable your story!""...a sudden, violent summer storm in the fields of new-mown hay; the tide receding from a rocky shore; a ...
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June 6, 2009
- My new novel Split Ends is within me complete with missions, high tensions, and soul searching. My characters have been in limbo and transformed several times into well kept "Frankensteins." Not that I have writer's block, but this particular piece of work has been through numerous pitfalls. The first pitfall is that I completed the final draft and saved it to one (eight track ...
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June 3, 2009
- Molly Fox’s Birthday by Deirdre Madden (Book Review)Molly Fox’s Birthday is written by Deirdre Madden. It is her 7th book and has been shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2009 for women writers. It is a slim book at 240 pages and is published by Faber and Faber. There are a number of undercurrent themes in the novel: friendship, theatre and identity with also a background in the troubles. The ...
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June 2, 2009
- Now that my second published novel is due out this month I’ve gone back to a manuscript I started a few years ago. It’s all about five friends. I’ve been polishing and rereading chapter after chapter and coming to the satisfying conclusion that I like the book. It isn’t always that way, of course. Sometimes there is the discarded prose on a bottom shelf that must have been conjured ...
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May 23, 2009
- A couple of nights ago, I sat around a restaurant table with five friends I've known for many moons, and at one point, I almost started laughing. We were hysterical, we old bats. And old bats, we were. We were talking about our children, and children in general. The current generation! the lack of responsibility! How spoiled they all were.Then we moved onto arm fat and drooping ...
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May 20, 2009
- Twenty observations on 'the smoke made with the fume of sighs." Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage. Ambrose Bierce Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect... E M Forster Whoso loves, ...
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