Archive | June 18, 2014
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Lost childhood
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes:
Take my hand and hold it tight As you used to do when you were small And trusted me to keep you safe On the woodland path where the trees grow tall. Take my hand and walk with me To the place you loved where the long grass grows…
Take Part in a War Memorial Made of Words
Originally posted on BRIDGET WHELAN writer:
A project remembering WWI wants as many people as possible to create a new kind of war memorial – one made entirely of words. Writers are taking part and students and schoolchildren and nurses and shop workers and writing groups. Everyone…it’s a wonderful idea and I am going to…
New Horizons: Hubble Hunts KBOs
Centauri Dreams Posted: 17 Jun 2014 06:22 AM PDT My guess is that the public thinks of the Hubble Space Telescope largely in relation to deep space objects. The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is a case in point, a region of the sky in the constellation Fornax that is no more than a […]
Roxane Gay: A Night of “Startling Contrasts”
Originally posted on BookPeople:
~post by Katie P. Roxane Gay is both a product of her time and timeless. When she stopped by BookPeople to celebrate the release of her latest novel, An Untamed State, RGay (as she’s known on Twitter) engaged her audience in an excellent, thorough discussion that included both celebrity gossip (Solange…
The Shift Omnibus, by Hugh Howey
Originally posted on Blogging for a Good Book:
Today’s post is written by Tabor. Shift, written by Hugh Howey, is the prequel to the dystopian novel Wool and recounts the events that created the Silos or the housing that mankind inhabits after a nuclear fallout. It follows the alternating narratives of Donald, a congressman in…
Guest Post: Sarah Lyons Fleming #SummerZombie
Originally posted on ARMAND ROSAMILIA:
ZOMBIES WILL NEVER DIE You’re here because you love zombies. Who doesn’t? Well, I guess the people who keep telling us that zombies are so over. In the “what’s hot, what’s not” columns, they love to tell us that zombies are dead. They’re right. They are dead, but they’re not…
Advance Praise for “Dying Days 4”
Originally posted on Dying Days:
Dying Days 4 will be officially released on Tuesday, June 24th in eBook and print. Here is the cover art as well as some great praise from three zombie authors that have raised the bar with each new release and forced me to write the best book I can. Keep…
I AM MALALA
COMMON PERSPECTIVE Free Online Magazine reflecting common-man perspective about everything. Nowadays I am reading I AM MALALA, an autobiography of Malala Yousuf Zai. She is a brave girl who was shot by Taliban for raising voice in favor of right of education for girls. She is beautiful and she also has a blessing of being […]
Book Club Corner: June Recommendations
Originally posted on BookPeople:
Welcome to our Book Club Corner, where each month we highlight books new to paperback we think would make perfect picks for your next book club discussion. If you’re looking to join a book club, we host a wide variety of free, bookseller-run book clubs right here at BookPeople. Join us! We love…