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Month: November 2022

The Flame Ignites

Posted on November 30, 2022January 24, 2023 by Barbara W. Klaser

I just finished reading The Flame Ignites, by Donna Fletcher Crow. I enjoyed this novel a lot, and it’s a departure from the typical novel, in that it combines some fact with fiction in an unusual way.

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The Classic Tradition of Haiku

Posted on November 26, 2022January 24, 2023 by Barbara W. Klaser

The Classic Tradition of Haiku: An Anthology, by Faubion Bower. The collection in this anthology of classic haiku is gathered from the works of traditionally recognized haiku masters from Japanese history.

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Grammar for a Full Life

Posted on November 24, 2022February 6, 2023 by Barbara W. Klaser

If you love the English language, if you do a lot of writing, or if you want to communicate on a deeper level in everything you write, then this book might interest you. Even if you don’t write that much yourself, but enjoy reading thoughtful writing in the form of essays, I recommend this.

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Three Simple Lines — a book about haiku and much more

Posted on November 16, 2022February 6, 2023 by Barbara W. Klaser

Three Simple Lines: A Writer’s Pilgrimage into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku, by Natalie Goldberg, is a fascinating book for me, for a few different reasons. The subject of haiku is a poignant one for me, because of something my sister and I did when our mother was in hospice care in 2002. We…

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Darcy By Any Other Name

Posted on November 8, 2022February 6, 2023 by Barbara W. Klaser

How would you explain this if it happened to you? Darcy By Any Other Name, a Pride and Prejudice variation by Laura Hile, begins at the Netherfield ball. Proud Mr. Darcy is determined not to fall in love with Elizabeth Bennet, who in the one dance they shared seemed to deliberately misunderstand everything he said….

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