Archive for the ‘Books’ Category
We all have different influences in our lives from the time we are children right on through our adult years. Whether it is your parents, that best friend, a special person in your life, some other family member, a co-worker or even a perfect stranger that comes along at just the right moment, that person […]
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Tags: book that has changed your life, books that have had an impact on your life, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mitch Albom, question of the day, Shakespeare, T.Coraghessan Boyle, William Paul Young
I Don’t Want to Meet Him/Her/It
It’s a rainy, dreary, cold day here in my part of New York today, not at all the ideal day you want to have to kick off the first unofficial weekend of summer or a three-day weekend, but hey, we work with the cards we are dealt and move on.Since we’re trapped inside today, Michelle […]
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Tags: fictional character you are afraid to meet, Hannibal Lecter, horror fiction, horror movies, question of the day, scary books, scary fictional characters, silence of the lambs, Thomas Harris
Is it Life Changing?
When I got up this morning, I wasn’t really sure what I was going to write about. I started glancing through my Twitter feed and I happened to follow the author Paulo Coehlo. If you have never read any of his work, I highly recommend “The Alchemist” and “Aleph,” both of which are excellent books. […]
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Tags: book that has changed your life, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Paulo Coehlo, The Shack, William Paul Young
Okay, so it took me longer than I wanted to before I got back here, but here we are again. Last time I mentioned that I had started reading “The Prague Cemetery” by Umberto Eco, and I am still trying to wade my way through the beginning of it. There is just something about the […]
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Tags: Papa Was a Rolling Stone, storymatic, the luckiest thing that has happened to you, The Prague Cemetery, The Temptations, Umberto Eco
Okay, Now I am going to get back into the swing of things like I want to do. The holidays are over, all the promises have been made and started and I finished up a work project that for some reason was bogging me down, so now I can have more time to blog. I […]
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Tags: Cross Roads, Filter, Hey Man Nice Shot, question of the day, song of the day, storymatic, the luckiest thing that has happened to you, The Prague Cemetery, Umberto Eco, where there's a will, William Paul Young
Well the holidays are over, all the decorations are down and put away, I think I am finally over whatever cold plagued me for a few weeks and it i time to start getting on with things. With the new year, I want to try to commit myself to some new things. My attitude has […]
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Tags: change, eating right, exercising, Fool on the Hill, New year, reading, song of the day, the Beatles, the storymatic, William Paul Young, writing
10 Best Books of 2012 – NYTimes.com. A few days ago, the New York Times did their 100 most notable books of 2012. Today, they announced their 10 best book of the year. There are a couple that sound really interesting to me that I had not been aware of that I will definitely check […]
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Tags: 1o best books of 2012, New York Times, New York Times 10 best books of 2012
100 Notable Books of 2012 – NYTimes.com. For those of you who may be looking for something to read or a gift for someone for the holidays, here is a list from The New York Times of their 100 most notable books of the year for 2012. Check it out and see how many you […]
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Phobophobia
I had planned to write about fear all along with Halloween coming tomorrow. It seemed like a good topic that could bring some interesting conversation. With all that has happened in the last few days with Hurricane Sandy and the destruction left in its wake, it seems like an even more appropriate topic. We all […]
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Tags: fear, horror movies, phobophobia
The Office of Iguana Flats 