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Jul.08.2012
I hadn't originally planned it so, but as with another recently widely popular book trilogy (Hunger Games), I began in the middle. Had the gossip and media hype over E.L. James and her runaway erotica bestseller '50 Shades of Grey' left more to the imagination I might have done different. I...
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May.22.2012
Two stories featured this month in the latest (3rd) issue of Spokane Coeur d'Alene Woman, newest magazine on the shelves from Spokane's Bozzi Media.
Check out the online version of the magazine here: http://www.spokanecdawoman.com/. Click online 'e-zine' image and scroll to pgs. 22, and 38 for...
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Mar.18.2012
It was a tough choice selecting a favorite sex scene from the many books I've read, which don't even include romance novels per se, but who doesn't like a racy love excerpt in the middle of a serious read? It only makes the boring parts better, in my view. In the end, I went with Robbie and...
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Feb.21.2012
Greetings!
I attended a lavish launch party for the first issue of a new local arts and literature magazine in my town, SPOKE (web page now up at http://www.spokejournal.com ) published by local arts nonprofit Spokane Is (check them out via their official Facebook page too.)
I was first in...
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Dec.21.2011
When it comes to Christmas stories, I can’t recall many shared through the old custom of vocal tradition by elder relatives during the holiday. Nor do I recall any memorable TV reincarnations of Santa Claus that weren’t outside the generic, commercialized version of Jolly Old St. Nick. There is...
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Nov.27.2011
A writer sets out with one goal in mind: Create a character with hardly a redeeming quality to her, put her up against impossible odds, a penchant for bad luck (and bad men), rolls it all together in into one depressing (but fortunately short) tale, ultimately challenging readers to…what?
Revel in...
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Nov.13.2011
A very happy day this Sunday. This morning I was greeted by two packaged copies of the December 2011, issue 432, and an editor's letter of thanks for my recent contribution to their regularly featured section Readers Write.
When asked to write a commentary on the theme 'Saying Too Much,' last...
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Nov.06.2011
I have not been to many open-mic readings where local, aspiring writers and poetesses like myself go to hear the voices of their peers and possibly make their own noise with a reading or two. The few experiences I have had can be counted on one hand, but I'll say one thing about each that I'm sure...
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Oct.29.2011
Book: Sherlock In Love
Author: Sena Jeter Naslund
Justthisminute I closed the pages of Sherlock in Love, which preceded Ahab’s Wife by about six years, finding new fanfare after the latter became a bestseller.
This novel—about a third the size of Ahab’s Wife, too—exudes a stylishly cryptic quality...
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Oct.29.2011
Book: Ahab’s Wife
Author: Sena Jeter Naslund
The mysteries that surround some of literature’s most unforgettable characters are often left to the reader’s imagination to draw conclusions. While the original writers might have intended to leave some ambiguity to the characters we’ve all come to know...
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Aug.23.2011
Reading my way through summer, here is my latest round up of reviews:
Book: Talking to Girls About Duran Duran
Author: Rob Sheffield
One fun, retrospective memoir by Rob Sheffield, longtime Rolling Stone columnist (and regular on VH1’s ‘Best of’ series), Talking to Girls About Duran Duran retracts...
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Aug.18.2011
I think my first mistake was letting my mother leave in the ER while I, too ill to function straight, let my imagination plot all kinds of terrible things that would happen to me if she never came back.
Mind you, I had reason to be down other than being sick. The fact that I was newly graduated but...
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Aug.09.2011
Nearly a thousand pages were read in under two weeks, with more reviews to share as August is now in full swing.
All three books, coincidentally, just happen to have made it on to the bestseller list.
Here they are, by order of most-recently published.
Book: State of Wonder
Author: Ann Pachett...
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Jul.28.2011
Keeping our great libraries in business this summer with another set of books read, and thoughts on them to share before launching into more books waiting on the shelf.
This go round, I tried unsuccessfully to keep it short—
Book: The Senator’s Wife
Author: Sue Miller
A novel by Sue Miller is sure...
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Jul.14.2011
Summer is said to be the ideal season to catch up on reading. For me, it’s every season, but summer does have the upper hand with its long days and plenty of sun to set the mood. Being employed half time these last few years helps too, let’s be honest. So far, I’m working my way through a reading...
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About Cara
I'm Northwest born, raised and educated. I grew up with an instilled love of the written word, published my first poem at 12, newspaper story at 16 and haven't stopped since.
I graduated college with an English BA, was hired by a small paper in my college...
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