Tag: nonfiction books
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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.