Posted in Writing/Reading on May 9th, 2010
A note about this list: any genre, any writer, any good recommendation. Innocent by Scott Turow. This was my Mother’s Day Gift. He is my favorite living author. If you haven’t read The Laws of Our Fathers, you are missing a masterpiece.
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Posted in For Readers on May 7th, 2010
Yesterday, during Mother’s Day tea at school, my son’s teacher sat to chat with me a few minutes. If you know anything about three year olds, you know these moments between adults is rare. This also happened to be the teacher with grace. When she speaks, I tend to listen. She mentioned, out of the [...]
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Posted in Writing/Reading on May 6th, 2010
My three year old son has tired of Princess movies. Recently I added some ‘boy’ movies to the mix: Nemo, ToyStory, The Black Stallion (TBS), & Bob, The Builder. I also just finished All The Pretty Horses (ATPH). Watching The Black Stallion and reading ATPH so close together gave me an idea. ATPH’s uses dialogue [...]
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