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When an alien enemy threatens Earth, dark secrets are revealed & shake Commodore Lela Cassiti’s loyalties. Challenging Imperial doctrine, she journeys across the stars to save the world & finds love may be the greatest weapon in the universe against evil…#amwriting #SFF #scifi
Ten writers, in no particular order, who mean/whose books mean a lot to me or influenced me or my writing in some way!
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
Jane Austen
Charles Dickens
Edgar Allen Poe
Emily Brontë
Margaret Mitchell
Leo Tolstoy
Dan Brown
Anne Rice
While not my favorite, I appreciated Hatchet as a child who always read far past my grade level in school. I don’t find it’s necessary to identify with a character to appreciate a book. I didn’t identify with the boys in Lord of the Flies either but I could appreciate the story.
I was a girl who could appreciate Hatchet just fine due to the fact I was a literate child. Both my son and daughters must read Hatchet. Obviously.
There's a very common brainworm going around right now that people can only enjoy books with self insert characters that mirror them. That's, of course, a problem. Mirrors AND windows are important. Another symptom of low literacy. Not every reading experience is supposed to be a bespoke pleasure experience specifically to titillate your particular fancies and make you feel like a self-insert fanfic character.
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“Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions” ~ Jane Austen
My top 5 hymns, in no particular order🤍
In Christ Alone
Nothing but the Blood of Jesus
It is Well With My Soul
Great is Thy Faithfulness
Amazing Grace
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It’s sort of remarkable that Jane Austen has become probably the central figure in English literature after Shakespeare, and arguably the most beloved. All the more so because she never traveled far from home; her life was largely lacking in drama. Early critics accused her of leading an insular existence, ignoring the great issues of the day and limiting the scope of her stories to the home. And yet, as Eudora Welty has noted, “The interesting situations of life can take place, and notably do, at home.” Such was Austen’s genius that within her limited sphere she saw the whole of human nature. All of life is contained within her six novels. She remains our greatest psychologist and one of our wisest philosophers. To read her books is a first step towards acquiring wisdom.
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“You’re so quiet!” - Everyone
1. I refuse to gossip, which I feel like constitutes 70% of human conversation
2. Silence is beautiful
3. Small talk bores me quickly
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A reminder for the girls: living alone in a world built for 2 incomes is actually an insane accomplishment.
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid.
