Tag: novels
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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.
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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 […]
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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 […]