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Book List: Big Books for Summer

Settle into your summer reading with one of these epic novels. Summer is the perfect time to wade into a really big book. You know the books I mean, the kind that can double as a door stopper for a recalcitrant screen door or a small table to hold your drink on the beach. Most … Continue reading Book List: Big Books for Summer

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June 11, 2014December 12, 2014Amitav Ghosh, Anathem, Big books, Justin Cronin, Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove, neal stephenson, Reading list, Sea of Poppies, Stephen King, Summer reading, summer vacation, The Passage, Under the DomeLeave a comment
Reading

Accidentally reading about reptiles…

I realized with the first two reads of the year, I have an accidental theme going on: reptiles in my fiction! With Swamplandia! it was alligators; then there is a snake in The Burn Palace: A Novel. Our upcoming book club read is set in Texas, so I wonder if a lizard will figure into the plot. … Continue reading Accidentally reading about reptiles…

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January 20, 2014December 12, 2014Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alligators, Burn Palace, Crocodiles, Dark Tower, Dinosaurs, Everything's Eventual, Fictional reptiles, Horns, IT, Jungle Book, Jurassic Park, Just So Stories, Little Friend, Lonesome Dove, Lost World, No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Poisonwood Bible, Reading, Reptiles, Small Gods, Snakes, Swamplandia!, Turtles1 Comment
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The opening line…

Stephen King shares his thoughts on why opening lines are so important and why he spends so much time crafting them in Why Stephen King Spends 'Months and Even Years' Writing Opening Sentences - Atlantic Mobile. As a reader, an opening line is a greeting from the author. Do I feel welcomed? Do I want to … Continue reading The opening line…

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August 1, 2013October 19, 2014Bulwer-Lytton contest, First lines, Haunting of Hill House, Lonesome Dove, Nineteen Eighty-Four, No Country for Old Men, Stephen King3 Comments

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