The task of creating complicated trees tracing family roots back through the generations never captured my imagination. Name after name, date after date … they never seemed like real people to me. But I know the stories. It was the stories that amused me.
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My feelings about bookstores are divided. On one hand, I LOVE bookstores -- I go out of my way to visit new stores, can spend hours searching for a book I didn't even know I wanted, and love the muffled sounds of a store piled high with books.
On the other hand, I frequently spend an hour wandering through a bookstore and leave with … nothing. Too frequently all the possibilities are overwhelming. I could pick up that book my friend recommended. Or I could get the latest from one of my favorite mystery series. Or I could hope for a book cover that catches my eye. But will a great book cover translate into a great story? I've found a great way to narrow down my choices a bit before I head for the bookstore or library. And discover some authors I'd probably never try (or even have heard of before).
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OK, I know you expect reading and writing when you stop by, but I hope you’ll forgive a bit of a deviation for my own personal public service announcement. My mother gave me a hometown update this week--one of those “Guess who died?” bulletins. Usually this involves one of my parents’ friends whom I barely remember, but this time it was different. This week it was a girl I rode the school bus with--granted, that was a long time ago, but we rode the bus together for almost a decade, were in Girl Scouts together, basketball, church… It was a small town, and our lives didn’t diverge that much until high school. |
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