Tag: novels

• 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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• 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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• Author at Work

  

  I’ve decided to work on my novel each day for about the five day week, myself immersed in the events and characters consistently, toward completion but enjoying this all. It’s in the Fantasy genre, Young Adult. And I am free to skip days. I will be starting a new painting soon, so I can alternate […]

  01/03/2023 6:17 am

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• My Short Story Printed and Ready, and an Author from Mississipi

  I had started writing my novel, which will be a longer length project, but I have been kind of following my desire and writing poems and this “gift” story in between. As I had written previously that I was writing a “secret story” to be given to someone as a gift at my family’s Christmas […]

  12/22/2022 4:30 pm

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• Just Two More Things: A Secret Story to Gift and a Novel Read

  

  (This is my fortune cookie today, featured photo: I could have written it! You know 😅And maybe I did, indirectly, with “algorithms.”) I said I would go on my blog vacation, then I left on a sad note and with my original blog theme needing to be restored, and it is working fine now…that has […]

  12/20/2022 4:48 pm

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• “Pride”

  This is a very recent favorite poem I wrote, “collage” poem, inspired by the text of Pride and Prejudice, on Jane Austen’s 247th birthday: “Pride” …as this poem really is a “sound” poem, and the meaning may be felt more fully in this reading: by Jade Nicole Beals Giving over? Giving up?  I’ll never be […]

  12/16/2022 4:25 pm

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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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• 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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• Writing Your Novel, A Strategy: You May Start with a Question or Two of Choice in Real Life

  Writing can be in your mind or imagination, but building your story, it can really help as you write to get real life information just by asking an informal interview to someone of your choice you may find works in a field you know not much about. It does not have to translate the profession […]

  12/09/2022 4:19 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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• 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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• Peeko Poses

  

  Peeko waves hello to the blog, with modesty and affection… This is the view I’ve begun to draw him from in my pocket sketchbook…. This was my first sketch of Peeko I drew from life in August; I will continue the new drawing tmrw, as it’s now time for bed. 🙂 Also tomorrow (Fri, Nov. […]

  11/17/2022 9:17 pm

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• Words Arranged, Well, These…

  

  night and almost morningtime (continues) What if this book I am reading could be done and I can close it and move onto a new one? Is it fair I judge the book by the author’s name and opening sentence, if it’s a pen-name too? Only teasing a little, but the novel is just a […]

  11/10/2022 5:48 am

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• The Pearls: a fantasy fiction Novel, and a Cat with a Very Fluffy Belly, not to Touch

  

  My cat Peeko has been so interested in expanding his skillset since he started schooling with me, and was a little disappointed in himself just a moment ago when he was interested in green grapes, and wanted to eat one, but also instinct didn’t; he licked his mouth as he glanced away. I told him […]

  11/06/2022 7:58 pm

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• …:)

  

  Friday, October 28, 2022 “Although I am sad,” Thich Nhat Hanh had written, “this dandelion keeps my smile for me.” 🌼 The same works with a Care Cat, Your Very Own, 💕💕—Peeko. 😉 .:.: I realize I somehow wrote over my post about reading, so I’ll recreate it here: I am reading Daughter of the […]

  10/29/2022 5:27 pm

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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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• Words and a Book to Read, The Little Paris Bookshop

  

  Thursday, night, 6 pm My penpal Bethany was glad to see the historic library nearby today, as she works in a library and loves books; I borrowed this one I found while browsing without opening it. We had lunch at a bookstore cafe (and that worked well because it rained a little while before we […]

  10/14/2022 9:47 am

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• Poetry Day

  

  I think I might have told you that I would be sure to write a new poem on Poetry Day, today, Thurs. Oct. 6. I didn’t. 🙂 I didn’t plan to, I’d realized after. (update: —But that night, one came on its own that I wanted to write: “Autumnal,” and I wrote it first by […]

  10/06/2022 6:15 pm

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• A New Writing Project Idea, Genre! and a Recent Dream

  Well, I felt today my way through mixing up and shuffling and throwing posts off the blog for too long and realizing this should just be as it is now… I’d felt Miss May letting me see kindly, look, that is enough now, hands off the blog, it is a form of fidgeting, but better […]

  10/04/2022 5:29 pm

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• An Unexpected Lounge

  

  reading The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis yesterday evening Today I am writing a short story, my first short story in awhile, an imagined one, and by in awhile, I mean the first one that I set out to write a short story intentionally. I will surround writing with yoga, sitting meditation, and self-massage. I […]

  09/23/2022 12:29 pm

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• An Art Gallery Weekend, A Reflection on Beauty, Luminosity, and Happiness in Art

  

  featured artists, Rich and Shana, this weekend, and me centered Saturday I spent the afternoon at the local Art Gallery and Studio and it’s been a busy, connected time with the artist friends there, and those words don’t always come together in other ways, which I love about this. I had just finished my recent […]

  09/12/2022 12:07 pm

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• “Hold Me Closer” Britney Spears and Elton John’s New Song, Thrilled About Books in the Night, and My Mom Comes to Visit!

  Aug. 31, 2022 First, I am very pleased with the air at my apartment home as last week I professionally deep cleansed the fireplace we don’t use (and is off)…a real professional will come in time (inclusive), but it is wonderful what a difference it makes. It feels like a whole new landscape or planet […]

  08/31/2022 11:00 am

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• Two Quotes from The Portrait of a Lady: Choose

  

  📖 2) She fixed her eyes upon him, and there was something in their character that reminded him of large, polished buttons; he seemed to see the reflection of surrounding objects upon the pupil. The expression of a button is not usually deemed human, but there was something in Miss Stackpole’s gaze that made him, […]

  08/19/2022 2:32 pm

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• New Fantasy Novel Found at the Bookshop, A New Poem Sent In, The Fun of a Giveaway I Had Not Won

  

  This is the new book I found Uprooted by Naomi Novik at the bookshop last time, by an author of our time, fantasy genre. I picked it based on the cover first and then the line on the cover: ‘enjoyable fantasy with the air of a modern classic.’ I am currently reading the book (Aug. […]

  08/17/2022 2:28 pm

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• The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James, a Brief Book Reflection

  

  ‘A Portrait of Peeko with The Portrait of a Lady’ YouTube video featuring my cat Peeko: https://youtube.com/shorts/cajAJwnrpW8?feature=share * The Goodreads book group is still reading the novel, so I won’t go on too long (I’ll try), but I have completed reading The Portrait of a Lady (with Peeko especially affectionate toward it as never before […]

  08/17/2022 9:31 am

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• Morning Sketch from a Field Afternoon: treasures

  

  I drew this sketch this morning, with my morning tea, from a few first sketches I’d drawn yesterday—(it was still a heatwave, so I’d gone back in after a little while even with my water canteen.) I drew with pencil, eraser, and pocket-book in a little spot in nature where I could kneel beneath this […]

  08/17/2022 8:29 am

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• Peeko’s First Prose Reading

  He is a cat who seldom appears on film; mostly, he doesn’t allow much of that, and enjoys more stills.

  07/23/2022 7:37 am

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• A New Start

  It’s 5:04 pm…I begin… * The living-room this morning was a sunlight-theater…I started reading again, wishing to continue the book; Peeko winked at me when I held it up. I think he may like the picture on the cover. *** and I am still beginning 📰😊💕

  07/22/2022 1:31 pm

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• A Portrait of Peeko, Reading The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James as Much as I Want To

  

  “What would you like to say to your fans?” I said to Peeko, and snapped this photo.😊🐱^ * The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James is so funny. I’d found myself more irritable overall though when I was following strictly the schedule for the Goodreads group, Old Books, New Readers, and I thought I […]

  07/12/2022 7:27 pm

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• Memorable Quotes from The Portrait of a Lady

  

  (My cat Peeko napping with the lounge-clothing I’d laid out ready to put on after my bath that day.) I am reading The Portrait of a Lady (1881) by Henry James with a Goodreads book group. It’s great so far, especially the dialogue; I’d like to share a couple of quotes that stood out to […]

  07/09/2022 2:31 pm

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• Meeting My Nephew who Loves Stories and the Books I’ve Found to Read Myself

  July 2, 2022 8:32 pm (with my sister, my nephew Jordan, and their dog Isabella) I got to meet my nephew today! He’s 4 months old and has already read (heard) so many books! (I’d told him, ‘Me too.’) He goes to the library for story-time and already dances too, and sings sometimes. So he […]

  07/02/2022 8:32 pm

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• Stepping Into a Novel Set in 1000 AD Like I’m In It Already

  

  June 13, 2022 A beautifully unfolding novel I find myself at ease in the place and am amused to find myself sharing so many interests with the characters in this historical novel (set in Scotland about 1000 years earlier than our current time): Queen Hereafter by Susan Fraser King. I share with the characters interests […]

  06/12/2022 6:45 pm

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• Peeko’s Fiction Pick and Photo Shoot

  

  photos Jun 11, ’22 evening I am reading at a slow, meditative pace the novel, Queen Hereafter by Susan Fraser King set in Scotland in 1000 AD. I hadn’t seen many historical fiction novels set at this time or place. My cat Peeko (shown above) does no tricks; he poses his own way in these. […]

  06/12/2022 9:17 am

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• An Intoxicating Book, A Bird Tries to Break into My Window, and More Recent Life Stories

  

  this flower was scented like strawberry and sugarcane 📰📻📚🌸 Intoxicated by A Book and Some Flowers I’d found a book recently called The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand, and I noticed before I read the book that it was scented so beautifully like the beach by the sea and a sweetly potent suntan fragrance…I breathed […]

  06/08/2022 7:08 am

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