Tag: books

• My Library as of Tonight, A Trip to Find My Holy Bible

  

  Saturday, January 28, 2023 my home library as of now…with some new books I’d gotten to read. and some lit magazines I’d had 🙂 decorative accents added: my silver pen with name engraved and amethyst and a pink blush little laughing buddha I looked for it on my shelf in real life: where’s the solid […]

  01/29/2023 7:13 am

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• Pride and Prejudice at the Library and Two Poetry Re-Finds

  

  Quickly snapped in a pleasantly secluded spot.🧚‍♂️I think the Non-Fiction sign signifies that I’m real (maybe.) 😊 This time the bus came, and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice also made it to the library (with a Jane character inside, and a mistakenly named-Jane, myself, who often wouldn’t correct people who seemed confused with the name […]

  01/27/2023 4:11 pm

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• Pocket Jane

  

  January 25, 2023 I had picked out this particular Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and added it to my Wishlist, which I just bought and it arrived yesterday. Fall 2021, I’d found a print copy of this popular title (I have a few other books by her that I’ve enjoyed). I was happy to […]

  01/25/2023 4:32 pm

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• Pocket Delights: a Day Mostly ‘Unplugged’ and a Surrealist Sketch I Drew

  

  After my nap in the sunlight, I continued reading and completed the book I had mentioned, a funny memoir by Jen Lancaster, but I won’t say anything more yet, I am looking forward to discussing it with the Book Club in person. It’s been a refreshing (I did actually put down the blog today 🙂 […]

  01/24/2023 7:43 pm

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• Bitter is the New Black

  

  a book for the local book club…

  01/20/2023 4:52 pm

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• Sunbathing at the Library with Poetry

  

  It’s Wednesday, it has been a week of busyness and creations that I cherish, and I slow down midway, read poetry in the sun, have a few small books to share, but for now it’s just sun, sit the other way, sun against my neck, a drink of water, rest, stretch, read, listen, associate, smile, […]

  01/20/2023 1:20 pm

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• Two Debut Novelists of Today whose Novels I’ve Recently Read

  

  Sue Lynn Tann wrote the debut fiction bestseller, Daughter of the Moon Goddess, and Heart of the Sun Warrior, the sequel, was just released this November 2022. I had read the first book and remembered about the sequel this month and that it would have been already released. I read this book most recently, a […]

  01/15/2023 8:03 pm

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• Wellness, Water Hydration, My First Novel, First Week of Full Focus

  *The water intake change has really made me feel sufficiently well (the most normal I’ve felt) and not impulsive: I was just drinking water all the time thinking more must be better, but that was very likely washing away medicine and so less effective. While not staying thirsty, I am gradually drinking about 9 cups […]

  01/15/2023 1:01 pm

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• Lounging in My Library, Listening to the Rain…

  

  —A butterscotch creme brulee hair tie. Happy New Year! —💕Jade

  12/31/2022 3:05 pm

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• A Handmade Gift: Poetry and Preserved Flowers for May Ziadeh

  

  (in the Christmas morning sun) complete Dec. 24th Christmas Eve 2022 I wrote the poem originally by hand on paper at the end of May 2021 on that month’s Full Flower Moon. The poem was published in March 2022 in Indelible’s The Feminine, and I’d read it live on video. I’d been collecting flowers and […]

  12/25/2022 5:00 pm

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• A Poem from Long Ago Set to Music and Sung

  

  my teddybears just held hands like that 🙂 on the bookshelf right side zoom in. And this teddybear Peeko 🧸🐱is napping on this blanket but also feels sad when his Mama is not feeling well and sleeping the day and night. 💕 See his puffy pouty kitten face as I say I love him. He […]

  12/23/2022 6:17 pm

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• Compassion

  

  my Care Cat gazing at me as I was napping & feeling unwell Update: I just woke and my breathing is all normal now! I slept for a long time…as for books, I woke with a bookmark in my bed with me but no book❔😊📚🧚: I must have fallen asleep before I got one to […]

  12/21/2022 5:14 pm

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• Long Car Ride, I Am Reading Little Men by Louisa May Alcott

  

  😊💓and I don’t even know the year of publication yet of this book! On the way to Western MA, to a railway. 😊🎄🚃 After I threw all my books off the shelf gently and arranged them, I picked a reread and I am reading Louisa May Alcott’s Little Men. I loved her Little Women book […]

  12/19/2022 10:41 am

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• All New Bookshelf as I Build My Own Home Library

  

  🎂Happy 247th birthday Jane Austen! Dramatic shelf height last yr, now all new arrangement, with a few additions I will tell about as I read (of those three, I’ve read Jane Eyre and Song of Solomon). You may know I am forming my home paper book library. Previous photo showed the before; now the shelf […]

  12/16/2022 11:22 am

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• Party in My Home Library

  

  December 15, 2022 I just threw all the books off my shelf (quietly) and it looks just like Christmas morning! I love design and especially arranging my books. I had gotten a few new books recently…That one folder still standing I was very gentle with as it contains my recent drawings and I will keep […]

  12/15/2022 2:40 pm

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• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

  

  (my own photo) The most moving novel I’ve read this year, and the most recent one I’ve added to my own home library. Song of Solomon (1977) had been a favorite of mine around the year 2004, and somehow I could not remember anything about it at all but that I had read it and […]

  12/12/2022 6:57 pm

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• A Book and a Birthday

  I am reading a new book, Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (1977). It is very intriguing. I’d remembered reading the novel sometime when I’d lived in New York and I remembering loving her writing style, yet nothing else at all. I thought it was published in 2004, but that was the reprint; it’s 1977 […]

  12/09/2022 8:54 pm

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• 3 Things to Do Today in Balance

  …feat. photo: for a future project, this Jane Eyre I was given, with the gold stain. The idea: Write a “found poem,” but I will not cut out or glue any words from the actual book, just look through it and arrange the words I will write on my own paper. 🙂 After a needed […]

  12/09/2022 12:30 pm

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• A Book of Essays on My Bookshelf for Years Unread—Read Today

  Reading Collected Essays by George Orwell, a book I’ve had on my shelf for many years, it was a gift from my sister one year, that I’d not wanted to read each time I’d picked it up over many years, but also did not give it away, it had felt like ‘for another time’, and […]

  12/05/2022 3:35 pm

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• My Art Projects in Progress and Ones I’ve Noted for the Future

  

  Wednesday, November 30th, ‘22 Yesterday, there were about 4 writer and book events happening. I went to 3 events :), and my cat Peeko attended 0 of them by his choice. (…He just made this expression like me, as if with humor, mid-groom and bathing himself for a long while; I tried to get a […]

  12/05/2022 10:10 am

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• I Finish My Falling Apart Copy of Jane Eyre Before Midnight

  

  (photo and content update, “the morning after”) …I started with a short paint session, and I have the first part of my idea started well while the rest of the canvas looks in messy distress, but I was able to stop in time to just paint a little and also complete Jane Eyre (1847) while […]

  12/01/2022 10:19 am

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• 1…2….3…4! Literary Salons Today, Tuesday

  November 29, 2022 …And this cat is ready for nighttime relaxation; he picks and chooses where and what he will attend and what he will read…at home…We await his full results from the vet to receive this week; he seems contented and eating well. *** A Tip For Book Lovers who Like Baths: If you […]

  11/29/2022 8:57 am

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• Classics Cat, Painted Jane Eyre, with Music by Justin Bieber

  

  …this literary scholar and fine art collector cat smiles at the Readers… —😽😎🐱Peeko 🎶🎶… and becomes a very plush, emotional cat as he loves when I am reading a many-paged classic novel, and he may like it himself for me to be reading, if he would pick, he loves relaxation, and when I am relaxing […]

  11/24/2022 10:13 pm

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• Re: Deleted Posts, Dear Reader

  I was reading after dark last night by my library window, lamplight, I started with this nursery rhyme of my own… ‘I sit quietly in this chair, I will comb through my hair, and I will read Jane Eyre.’ I am sorry for these pretty hastily deleted posts; I remind myself writing is free, and in […]

  11/24/2022 8:11 am

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• My Novel’s Progress Today, A Place to Pause for Now

  

  Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022 (blushing night skies receive my kisses) I consider what we may think others might expect from us and that we may be happier to surprise everyone naturally and pleasurably in writing or doing something, such as a novel, as you yourself find most interesting to write and read… …I’ve started writing […]

  11/23/2022 10:07 am

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• Where?

  I am seeing time moving forward in days, weeks, and months, rather than as a single day with few hours, so I just keep writing my novel as much as I would like to each week, and time continues replenishing on its own… That leaves me at 2928 words to rest the whole weekend, a […]

  11/19/2022 6:57 pm

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• My First Novel in Progress, Finding the Genre and Audience: YA Fantasy, and On ‘Point of View’

  November 15, 2022, night I feel like I have more info now that my story completed could fit into the popular Fantasy genre for Young Adults. I wrote about 200 words tonight typed, and I am going to rest awhile at 2328 words total. 🙂 I read my typed draft, then I wrote at the […]

  11/16/2022 9:57 am

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• A List of Art and Writing, Plans, Dreams, and Hopes while Currently Sitting

  

  * I hope my hair will continue to grow a little longer; I am mindful of the ends now, and gentle detangling, comb and brush. * I am content sitting now, my feet don’t touch the floor but freely I swing them up, can stretch and flex them well like this, posture is great with […]

  11/14/2022 8:07 am

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• My Books

  

  November 12, 2022 I arranged them nicely and now I actually wish to read a book when I go in. And I have 2 books I gifted to myself on the way, soon…:) 💕Jade P.S. Oops 🙂 I have a couple of things to fix…The angel has no bookend next to her on one side […]

  11/12/2022 11:41 am

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• So Begins Chapter Two, and Writing Together in Massachusetts

  

  Friday, FEATURED This one is black tea with almond milk, afterwards Another morning of green tea (gyokuru) followed by writing my novel, this time I wrote my draft of Chapter Two, but I feel that this chapter will still continue after the point that I stopped at at 1305 words today when I continue writing […]

  11/11/2022 4:44 pm

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• Writing a Novel 1st Day: Queset House, MA

  It was a lot of fun writing my first event for NaNoWriMo at the Queset House behind the historic Ames Library near where I live in MA. I hadn’t been in that ‘House’ before which is a public place; it was like stepping into someone’s old Victorian House in the victorian era itself. I was […]

  11/05/2022 6:17 pm

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• Quarantine Highway by Millicent Borges Accardi

  

  Featured Poetry I’ve just read through this week this very new, just released poetry collection Quarantine Highway by Millicent Borges Accardi, a Portuguese-American poet living in California. I recommend this poetry book to anyone who enjoys a poetry style that feels almost to be part on the page and partly recited, with poems that approach […]

  11/03/2022 1:27 pm

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• Bringing Calm with Arranging Books with Honeybear…A Milk and Honey Moisturizer

  

  November 2, 2022 My books were greatly out of order, book 2 showing before book 1 of a series, poetry, non-fiction, novel in a row…But I found that a little fun. I wanted to bring some calm and beauty and simplicity to the bookcase and my mind this afternoon…I also spaced the books a little […]

  11/03/2022 9:27 am

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• A Debut Fantasy Novel, All Saints Day, Writers’ Retreat

  

  photo from bookshop November 1, 2022 A new fantasy novel I’d found with a second book in the series to come this month. * It is All Saints Day, and this holiday has a very special meaning. 🙂 🙂 Miss May says from the song we listened to…“But you are the angel in person.” 🙂 […]

  11/01/2022 8:07 am

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• Someplace Else Away

  

  oh, this bird stopped by yesterday 🙂 I could call this a retreat but I am honest it is in a way but it seems that many people close to me find me overwhelming, doing wasteful things, or just annoying in general, Miss May seems to welcome me fully; we have plenty to laugh about […]

  10/26/2022 7:00 am

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• Little Gifts So Sweet

  

  Updated this post from Friday, October 21, 2022 I just returned a random library find on the shelf called The Border Lord and Lady, I was in the mood for another non-deep or tragic, petite thick paperback type novel or stories, the kind professors would scoff at but there could be one among them that […]

  10/23/2022 2:42 pm

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• 3 in One

  2. The bright autumn trees view in my living-room makes me feel that my graphite-pencil drawings must be on a pause for now, that the trees demand color. I will pick the pencils up again; I want to draw again sometime. I have a painting started on canvas, worked one day at The Gallery on […]

  10/15/2022 2:02 pm

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