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Reading My First Horror Story

Posted on October 27, 2019October 25, 2020 Yevgeniya

What makes the good scary story? I always thought that ghost tales told around a fire or in a dark

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Celebrating Zora Neale Hurston

Posted on January 7, 2014July 14, 2014 Yevgeniya

Today would have been Zora Neale Hurston’s birthday. If you haven’t read anything by Hurston, “Their Eyes Were Watching God”

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Mini-Reviews: The God of Small Things

Posted on December 3, 2013October 27, 2019 Yevgeniya

If I were to ever choose a favorite book, this one would be among the top contenders. The prose is

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Vonnegut: Life through fiction

Posted on November 6, 2013February 5, 2014 Yevgeniya

There’s no doubt that life can be strange, difficult and confusing but Kurt Vonnegut —a veteran, writer and political dissident

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Disappointing reads

Posted on October 7, 2013 Yevgeniya

I dropped Elsewhere by Richard Russo into the “return here” slot at my library the other day with some hesitation.

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Happy Birthday, Walt Whitman

Posted on June 1, 2013June 9, 2016 Yevgeniya

Photo taken in the late 19th century by Matthew Brady // via Wikimedia. Come, said my Soul Such verses for

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Lorca’s corazon

Posted on February 15, 2010January 9, 2014 Yevgeniya

Cancionilla del primer deseo En la mañana verde, quería ser corazón. Corazón. Y en la tarde madura quería ser ruiseñor.

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