tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37180398.post1356661586039813082..comments2024-02-12T02:28:12.317-05:00Comments on The Writers' Group: Making A Literary Life Friday: PassagesLynne Griffin and Amy MacKinnonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11107479565926998943noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37180398.post-29203668725245663352008-05-24T17:23:00.000-04:002008-05-24T17:23:00.000-04:00I really want to read Mercy of Thin Air! Such a gr...I really want to read Mercy of Thin Air! Such a great title. I loved Atonement. These are great lines that make me want to read all these books. <BR/><BR/>On another issue, Wednesday, May 28th, 2008, Dr. Gigi Durham, the author of a new groundbreaking book entitled The Lolita Effect, The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What we can Do About It, will be here for a Q&A session to talk about her new book on my blog. I hope you will come by and I hope you will tell others to come and interact with Dr. Durham who will be answering questions all day and night long!Ello - Ellen Ohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18311917335471167591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37180398.post-2427900150297899732008-05-23T13:04:00.000-04:002008-05-23T13:04:00.000-04:00I love those lines. I've started to become a book ...I love those lines. I've started to become a book marker-upper, underlining certain passages.Eileenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07967828178034612278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37180398.post-19716614151917417212008-05-23T11:01:00.000-04:002008-05-23T11:01:00.000-04:00I firmly believe my fellow authors are my best tea...I firmly believe my fellow authors are my best teachers. Just last night, at a reading by Ann Hood and Elizabeth Berg, Ann said something about opening lines that so resonated with me it's the focus of my own blog post today!Judy Merrill Larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06675069484490433295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37180398.post-74852425954908376242008-05-23T10:29:00.000-04:002008-05-23T10:29:00.000-04:00In honor of the long Spring weekend, when I'll be ...In honor of the long Spring weekend, when I'll be planting a flower garden with my daughters, I'd like to offer the following:<BR/><BR/>"Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing his own hemlock...As Samuel Spaulding, Esquire once said, "Dig in the earth, delve in the soul."<BR/>Excerpt from Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Line.<BR/><BR/>Have a nice weekend everyone!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com