Tag: books
member name: Beryl Singleton Bissell
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May 28, 2007 05:27 PM EDT --
I love this little book and I’m not a knitter. I knit but how can someone who's spent more than two years trying to knit one hat -- call themselves a knitter? I do love knitters and knitted things. . . .
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November 08, 2006 06:10 PM EST --
Can a week have transpired since we docked in Boston and disembarked from the Jewel of the Seas, since we bid farewell to Birdie and Matt, Chris and Ryan, and all the other Gatherites and authors aboard . . .
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July 22, 2006 09:32 PM EDT --
I come before you humbled and admonished.
My son said, "Mom, how could you?"
My husband said, "But Beryl . . ."
Sportsmen said "You didn't!"
Yes. I have sinned . . .
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August 04, 2006 01:51 PM EDT --
If you've been reading my posts for a while, you'll know that I've been awaiting a "writer's dream." No. It's not making the NY Times best seller list. This dream concerns . . .
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November 15, 2006 07:41 PM EST --
Though the Jewel of the Seas would not leave Boston until 5 pm on November 25, Bill and I began our trip two days ahead of time. I was scheduled to give an early morning talk to a group of . . .
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May 28, 2007 08:32 PM EDT --
The Liar’s Diary: A Book Review
Gather keeps getting better. I keep bumping into fine writers that I hadn’t encountered before and a growing number of outstanding authors. Often these . . .
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July 04, 2007 05:06 PM EDT --
"Get thee to a monastery!" -- does anyone know the actual source of this quote? -- there are thousands of articles with that quotation but none I can find that attribute the quote to its . . .
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October 03, 2007 10:31 PM EDT --
For months I counted down the days until Ann Patchett's newest book Run arrived in my mailbox. When it arrived I immediately set aside what I was doing and lost myself in the joy of her story-telling. . . .
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December 03, 2006 05:29 PM EST --
I thought I’d completed the process of writing a book when my memoir, The Scent of God , was published by Counterpoint, NY, this April. I didn’t realize that the most arduous part of authorship . . .
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October 03, 2006 05:10 PM EDT --
I've been indulging myself recently, reading books written by Gather members: Damian McNicholl's A Son Called Gabriel, Moya Goatley's Basket of Rain, and Brazil, the spectacular historical . . .
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January 05, 2006 04:45 PM EST --
My husband Bill and I have been cleaning up. We've been talking about it for years but somehow never got around to it. We've been making the changes slowly, I think it is called moving with one's bio-rhythms. . . .
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November 15, 2006 12:41 PM EST --
I will be reading from my memoir, The Scent of God , at the Hennepin County Brookdale Library in Brooklyn Center MN on Tuesday, November 21, 7 pm.
I'd love to meet Gatherers in the area and am . . .
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July 20, 2007 12:55 PM EDT --
I was going to title thisDolphi Rockets toward US from Saudi Arabia but thought that might be a little too explosive even though its true. Dolphi's writing has the power and thrust of a rocket. . . .
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April 15, 2008 01:45 PM EDT --
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August 12, 2006 12:40 PM EDT --
Remember that old Christmas song about Santa making a list and checking it twice, gonna find out who's naughty and nice. Well I'm not Santa but that's just what I've been doing. I've . . .
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August 27, 2006 02:57 PM EDT --
Brazil , by Gather member Errol Lincoln Uys, is the epic saga of a nation I knew little about until I got sucked into its history by this master story-teller. Not only is it a "vast novel to . . .
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August 27, 2006 06:28 PM EDT --
Not everyone has a writing shed. Nor has everyone received a "welcome to your writing shed" gift. Though such people might exist, I am not at all certain if anyone with a writing shed has received . . .
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May 04, 2007 10:19 AM EDT --
Gather booklovers and authors take note. Book blog tours are a great way for authors to help publicize their work, and for readers to interact with authors. A book blog tour is a rolling event that moves . . .
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July 25, 2007 07:03 AM EDT --
In December 1999, I fly to Buenos Aires to meet my husband Bill who is working in South America. I beat him there by a whole day and arrive to find the streets of the city blockaded . . .
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October 24, 2007 01:36 PM EDT --
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-- or the Back Story behind becoming an author
My favorite past time as a child was sitting under the ping pong table over which I'd draped a cloth tent, reading. As a teen . . .
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