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Watching the Detectives
Current project and new, secret project!
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French translations in Part 2 of Giovanni’s Room
James Baldwin: up until p. 118
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French slang in Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
Plays on words used to play, then to hurt
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John Irving recalling Gatsby
in A Prayer for Owen Meany
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Origami X Redux
Generation X music and movies ramblings
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Being monitored…
…and probed, and stressed…
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Independent Bookstore Day with Judy Blume
Judy Blume owns a bookstore called Books & Books. I want to beef up my Judy Blume collection that has survived from childhood and adolescence. So what better way to celebrate the day, than to buy Judy Blume directly from her on Independent Bookstore Day! So I ordered the second
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Library Pirates (with Princess Jones Curtis): 88
of Bye, Pumkin Podcast
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Family Tree Redux
Still obsessed, even after episode 9
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To the Lighthouse to Catch a Wish: 87
Virginia Woolf and the Brothers Grimm
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Movie Review: Friday the 13th 3D (1982)
Letterbox link: 3 1/2 stars Caught a continuity error this time: The hammock bed, during sex, has a homemade quilt, after the shower has a fur blanket. Whoops. Now I have the first three, my favorites out of the series, as steelbooks. I am a happy 80’s teen.
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Book Review: The Secret Passage by Nina Bawden
4 stars. Nina Bawden was one of the authors of my childhood. Greatly enjoyed revisiting her during my Daylight Savings Time hangover/flareup. This would be an excellent gateway to horror for young people–scary without too much peril and no death or bloodshed. Keywords given to The Story Graph