Tag: nonfiction books

• May Ziadeh, a Biography by Jade Nicole Beals

  

  July 21, 2022 (completed Jan. 2023) featured photo, Miss May A biography I wrote about the author, May Ziadeh, an author I’ve written of often on the blog, with biographical facts, and immersive writings in my own experiences beginning in May 2021. At the end, a summary and reflection of the book My Life With […]

  01/10/2023 10:11 am

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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

  book reflection, book review, books, draft, essays, fiction, george orwell, love, lovingkindness, memoir, my first novel, nonfiction books, philosophy, poetry, poets, psychology, writers

• It’s An Old Scottish Custom book review

  

  (feat. photo my cat, Peeko lounging like a classy lion with the book about to be reviewed…) *-.-_o-* + As for symbols, I just am really intrigued with this kind of art; it may just happen… (Post Title art made with symbols) … …now onto the book review of It’s An Old Scottish Custom by […]

  07/29/2022 4:13 pm

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• …Storybook Yoga with Monet

  

  (Monet and his paintings, 1923, colorized, credit: openculture) After awhile of living and painting many garden lily pond scenes outside his home in France, the artist Claude Monet became enthralled with the ocean. He wanted to paint it as he saw it and would get as close to it as possible with his paintbrush and […]

  07/29/2022 9:24 am

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• Peeko Writes A Prose Poem…

  

  After seeing this on my laptop no one else here, I had to spend awhile asking other ppl and looking into how Mac laptops work to find out how this could have even been possible…😳😆⌨️ I took this picture of Peeko yesterday—for pure fun, I’d opened a new blank (TextEdit) document file for him (no […]

  07/27/2022 12:07 pm

  fun, literary salon we keep, memoir, memoir stories, morningtime, nonfiction books, peeko, prose poetry, scotland

• “A Chipmunk Welcomes Himself” and “Caught Redhanded”

  July 20, 2022 A Chipmunk Welcomes Himself Sometime a week or two ago, the building door where I live was left open for a quick construction project. I walked in and two neighbors walked in a little bit behind me, the young woman giggled as she noticed a chipmunk who wandered in too, just a […]

  07/20/2022 4:24 pm

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• A Note Found and a Bookmark and A Great First Art Show

  

  I found this bookmark in a library book I’d taken out and read yesterday, a slim blue copy of literary insight with a little biography of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. From that book, these lines of a poem by Edna I’d not heard of spoke to me most poignantly: The stone the angel rolled […]

  05/17/2022 7:57 pm

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• From Love Sonnets of Proteus, poem by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

  I am reading through poetry in a pair of anthologies I’d found at the library…here’s one, the first in the book. * From Love Sonnets of Proteus by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt I see you, Juliet, still, with your straw hat Loaded with vines, and with your dear pale face, On which those thirty years so […]

  05/13/2022 2:06 pm

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• A New Pansy Flower, Creative Days, and a Pair of Literary Salon Tuesdays

  

  April 27, 2022 This purple and yellow pansy flower on my balcony was born just today, and I kissed it gently this morning when I woke and saw it there…😘 and again this afternoon. Welcome to the world. 😊💕🍃 And this ‘Birds’ print chair made me smile when I saw it at the furniture store […]

  04/27/2022 7:15 pm

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• My Own Home Design: A Place to Create Art and Rest

  The library corner…complete! With Monet’s “Flower Beds” painting on canvas displayed by my reading chair. … I didn’t think this book would be laugh out loud funny, but I am still smiling when I think of a certain little story—Monet getting cranky with his own art failures and one day hiring cooks to make him […]

  02/23/2022 11:28 am

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• Last Night’s Dream of Thay

  

  Yesterday night, I found out my favorite meditation teacher, Thich “Thay” Nhat Hanh who was also an author and poet, had just passed away at age 95. I’d first found him 14 years ago and soon after I wished for a copy of his book Peace is Every Step, and read it fully. Last night […]

  01/22/2022 10:26 am

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• I Found Another Little Adventure

  I wished to give more books away and maybe find a novel to read as I hadn’t gotten into many novels at all in the most recent ones, although I do remember laughing at certain passages in Light In August by William Faulkner and needing to place a finger over my lips to not do so.  […]

  05/15/2021 12:50 pm

  memoir stories, nonfiction books, novels

• How The Sky Was Seen Then And The Sky Now

  The first post today was “More Fairy Adventures.” I’m not actually going to throw this book out the window.  But I will tell you about it. 🙂 I have finished reading The Sky Atlas by Edward Brooke-Hitching, which is an overview of sky thoughts and observations beginning a bit prehistorically and mostly focusing on written records […]

  03/07/2021 7:18 pm

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• Warm, Misty Rain, And We Fast Forward To Summer

  It is now a new month and it is raining; I notice red on the trees for the first time as if it had just sprung up over night. The world is open and I don’t mind how my phone is monumental; words open the world and then open it some more, or maybe I […]

  03/01/2021 1:05 pm

  my mystical experiences, nonfiction books, sky

• Someone Thought There Could Be Another Sea Up High

  blue angel by the tree branch last night, a satisfying slant. And a blue angel came inside to read with me.   from the book’s introduction, i learned it will tell me the myth about “the sea above the sky.” that is so exciting i can feel the excitement in my belly and will share that […]

  02/28/2021 7:48 pm

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• Tell Me About The Sky

    I will be told about the sky by this.   I will fully start this soon and will share interesting parts.

  02/28/2021 6:14 pm

  my photography, nonfiction books, sky