Category: literature
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Quotes that Made Me Cry
āIf you could expect nothing better, why did you come to America?ā āFor the sake of my children whom I wished to be born in a free land.ā āYour children havenāt done so well, Mother.ā Katie smiled bitterly. āThere is here, what is not in the old country. In spite of hard unfamiliar things, thereā¦
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A Christmas Carol Stave 1 : Marleyās Ghost
Keeping with myĀ tradition of reading Christmas stories, this year Iām doingĀ A Christmas Carol.Ā Of course, even Dickensā oral manuscript that he modified originalĀ is still pretty dang long, so Iām going to have to break this suckerĀ up into its component staves. (Itās a carol, remember?) Hereās A Christmas Carol stave 1, Marleyās Ghost. Marleyās ghost alwaysā¦
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BOOK CLUB !!!!
For those of you who like reading novels, I hostĀ a book club group on Facebook. Ā ItāsĀ super laid back with plenty of time to fit a novel into your busy schedule ā a book club for people who DO NOT HAVE TIME for book club. As I post this, weāre having a discussion on āThe Faultā¦
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Fairytale Photographer for Kids :: The Chicken Steeper
A STORY NO ONE CAN DUPLICATEā¦ Ā Remember ourĀ custom-made fairytaleĀ photographer? Ā In Markās words: The thought was simple: a series that caters fairy stories toĀ the personality of your child. Weād tell eachĀ stories using words and photographs, just like we did with Cold Brewed. This isnāt something Iāve seen done beforeā¦ and Iām all about tryingā¦
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Make Good Art Speech by Gaiman
Iād reserved the Make Good Art speechĀ forĀ an upcoming post called 50 Reads for Writers. Ā But I donātĀ want it to get lost in the noise. So even though Iāll share the video once moreĀ in aĀ future post, Iām posting it here separately. If you havenāt seen or read Gaimanās Make Good Art speech, you should probablyā¦
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Comics that Nourish
People keepĀ tucking away all kinds of imagination-based encouragement intoĀ the nooks of the internet, you simply have to dig a bit to find it all. Thanks to Meghan for pointing this one out. Stephen McCrane over at Doodle Alley started drawing comicsĀ that nourish for people like you and me. He took the principlesĀ that helped him developĀ hisā¦
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Paris Review Art of Fiction List
Nothing in the last two years has taught me more about storytelling, fiction, and great reading habits than theĀ ArtĀ of FictionĀ series by The Paris Review. I read aroundĀ two dozen of them before I decided to work systematicallyĀ from number one until the end.Ā You can just click here to jump ahead to the complete list of over 230Ā Artā¦
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The Vagabond Librarian: a pledge
I wanted to create a bit of a bookendĀ toĀ that last season of blogging for thoseĀ of you that have followed consistently. And honestly for my own closure,Ā I neededĀ a way to say a good goodbye to that particular season. I made a little pledge for us. Iām calling it The Vagabond Librarian pledge ā it pretty muchā¦
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sitting at the feet of : a documentary filmmaker
Spring Break, 1998. An eighth grader rode west from Kansas City to San Francisco. Inside a two-story Virgin Records store, he ascended an escalator and at its zenith faced his future in film-making. After dozens of art classes, questions of color and light had saturated his mind. Around that time, his grandfather gave him anā¦
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Warren Buffett Stock Picks :: How He Choses
When Warren figures out that a company holds a durable competitive advantage, he will only invest if it makes ābusiness senseā to him. Since youāre buying pieces of a company, he thinks you should see each share as representative of the wholeāyou should only buy a share if youād buy the whole company, in otherā¦
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Sitting at the Feet of : a Miraculous Healer
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uDhwFU9unc] The clip above from The Green Mile captures the feeling I had after the following interview. Itās a unique feeling, the place where fear and wonder intersect, that magical place where the awful and the awesome shake hands over a table set by awe. Real healings, assuming of course that there are such things,ā¦