Category: books
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[Day 14] A non-fictional book
I recently picked up ‘I should have stayed at home: The worst trips of great writers’. It’s an anthology of anecdotes from different writers on the worst trips they’ve ever been on. Among the writers featured are Pico Iyer, Isabel Allende, Paul Thereoux, and many more. Isabelle Allende writes about going around Europe on $1…
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[Day 13] A fictional book
I’ll count the last entry as the one for day 12. Funny, when made to name a fictional book, I’m at a loss for words. Where to start? I already wrote about Harriet the Spy. Ah, I know, I’ll write about the Jessica Darling series. I make no excuses: this is chick-lit. I actually like…
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[Writing Meme] Day 4: Your Favorite Book
I was a funny kid. I was more enamored by a list of banned books than I was by any best seller or recommended library list. Harriet the Spy caught my eye on a list of banned books in one of those almanacs. I was intrigued about the story of the spunky young kid who…
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Stream of Consciousness
J.D. Salinger Dies at 91. R.I.P. I survived the miseries of high school by being schmartsy. It helped that my dark period in literacy (marked by Sweet Valley Kids, Twins, and Babysitter’s Club) hit me when I was 9. When I entered high school at 14, not wanting to call attention to myself, and finding…