G is for Girl

by Carol8 Comments
Vicki of Reading At The Beach hosts A-Z Wednesday. Today's letter is G. This is one I read back in 2006. All I remember is enjoying it, but I've always been a Nancy Drew fan.   Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak This is the publisher's description. A plucky “titian-haired” sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930. Eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties (when she was taken up with a vengeance by women’s libbers) to enter the pantheon of American girlhood. As beloved by girls today as she was by their grandmothers, Nancy Drew has both inspired and reflected the changes in her readers’ lives. Here, in a narrative with all the vivid energy and page-turning pace of Nancy’s adventures, Melanie Rehak solves an enduring literary mystery: Who created Nancy Drew? And how did she go from pulp heroine to icon?    The brainchild of children’s book mogul Edward Stratemeyer, Nancy...
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Teaser Tuesday

by Carol12 Comments
Grab your current read. Let the book fall open to a random page. Share with us two (2) "teaser" sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12. You also need to share the title of the book that you're getting your "teaser" from...that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given. Please avoid spoilers! I'm cheating a little today, with three sentences, starting  on line 4. My teaser: "About eight years ago, almost by chance, I found a novel by Julián Carax in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. You had hidden it there to save it from being destroyed by a man who calls himself Laín Coubert, " I said. She stared at me, without moving, as if she were afraid that the world around her was going to fall apart. -pg. 162, The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón Teaser Tuesdays is hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Play along....
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Guest Post- Balthazar Rodrigue Nzomono-Balenda, author of Freedom of Press the Sitting Duck

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I would like to thank Balthazar Rodrigue Nzomono-Balenda for taking a page in my notebook today to talk about his journey to becoming published.   My journey to being a published author I hope my story can inspire any writer around the world, who is determined to find a publisher that’s willing to publish his/her works. I have been asked to share my experiences which I would like to do now. On June 2008, I was publishing poems at the International Library of Poetry’s website (Poetry.com), when I received an invitation to Las Vegas by the International Society of Poets, which was one of the world’s largest poetry organizations.  I was invited in Las Vegas because I was one of the nominees as Poet of the Year 2007. I was invited because of my poetic accomplishments at Poetry.com. It was an opportunity for me to meet the Pulitzer Prize Laureate, W.D. Snodgrass, Academy of American Poets Past Chancellor David Wagoner and others. But I couldn’t...
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Mailbox Monday

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Thanks to Marcia at The Printed Page for hosting Mailbox Monday. Here's what I found in my box this week.     Leonardo's Swans by Karen Essex I won this at historical -fiction.com. Thanks, Arleigh! Isabelle d’Este, daughter of the Duke of Ferrara, born into privilege and the political and artistic turbulence of Renaissance Italy, is a stunning black-eyed blond and an art lover and collector. Worldly and ambitious, she has never envied her less attractive sister, the spirited but naïve Beatrice, until, by a quirk of fate, Beatrice is betrothed to the future Duke of Milan. Although he is more than twice their age, openly lives with his mistress, and is reputedly trying to eliminate the current duke by nefarious means, Ludovico Sforza is Isabella’s match in intellect and passion for all things of beauty. Only he would allow her to fulfill her destiny: to reign over one of the world’s most powerful and enlightened realms and be immortalized in oil by the genius Leonardo...
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