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I read and write reviews. And make quilts.
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American Rambler by Isaac Fitzgerald
Yes, this book is about Johnny Appleseed. But really, it is about a man who likes walking and solitude and freedom who reflects on his life this country and it’s history and it’s people…
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This Dark Night: Emily Bronte, A Life by Deborah Lutz
Coarse, strange, disagreeable went the general consensus–too gloomy, savage, and eccentric. from This Dark Night “It’s as if her readers hadn’t caught up with her yet,”…
https://theliteratequilter.wordpress.com/2026/05/13/this-dark-night-emily-bronte-a-life-by-deborah-lutz/
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Small Town Girls by Jayne Anne Phillips
This, then, was how language worked. And if it could save me, it could save us all. from Small Town Girls by Jayne Anne Phillips Jayne Anne Phillips and I are were born in the same year. For all th…
https://theliteratequilter.wordpress.com/2026/05/12/small-town-girls-by-jayne-anne-phillips/
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#sundaysentence
Capitalism seems especially adept at taking a complex issue—often one with underlying brutality—and turning it into a T-shirt. Or a park.
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Earth for Sale by Maude Barlow
The financialization of nature is a dangerous development…This book sounds the alarm on this insidious new form of corporate plunder. from Earth for Sale by Maude Barlow Under the guise of en…
https://theliteratequilter.wordpress.com/2026/05/09/earth-for-sale-by-maude-barlow/
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It’s always a gamble, who gets remembered and who doesn’t.
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It Wasn’t Meant to Be Perfect by Gaelynn Lea
I am no superhero–I was just a disabled kid with big dreams who grew up in a supportive environment. from It Wasn’t Meant to Be Perfect by Gaelynn Lea Gaelynn Lea was a normal kid and t…
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The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett
Here is what I learned in life: You cannot count on people. from The Calamity Cluby by Kathryn Stockett When I realized this book was over 600 pages it set me back on my heels: was I ready to commi…
https://theliteratequilter.wordpress.com/2026/05/07/the-calamity-club-by-kathryn-stockett/
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#gloriouscountry
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Glorious Country by Victoria Johnson
Church matured, his symbolic language became more abstract, and he developed an original visual style that injected political symbolism and not merely into oaks and elms but into all manner of even…
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Enormous Wings by Laurie Frankel
The whole first chapter I was laughing out loud. Pepper Mills is seventy-seven when she has a fender bender with an Episcopal priest who demands to see her driver’s license…then destroy…
https://theliteratequilter.wordpress.com/2026/05/05/enormous-wings-by-laurie-frankel/
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The Fifth Season: Poems by Cori Howard
this morningI bleed ink prayersonto a crumbled napkinan ancient compassback to myselffrom Storm by Cori Howard I read these poems in one sitting, transfixed by their impelling openness. Cori Howard…
https://theliteratequilter.wordpress.com/2026/05/04/the-fifth-season-poems-by-cori-howard/
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#sundaysentence
But what we know—what we have seen—is that America can change. That is the true genius of this country.
#barackobama
#whatwesay
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#whentheycamehome
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When They Came Home by Terri Lewis
Company K crosses America, sprawled asleep in seats and aisles, waking at every stop, leaning out the windows, hollering, laughing, pounding their chests. “They need us Yanks,” Milton y…
https://theliteratequilter.wordpress.com/2026/05/03/when-they-came-home-by-terri-lewis/
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My Dear You by Rachel Khong
Perhaps it was growing up watching The Twilight Zone as a girl, but I do love stories with a twist, a subtle message, and weird realities. These stories were just up my alley. There are stories of …
https://theliteratequilter.wordpress.com/2026/05/01/my-dear-you-by-rachel-khong/
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#thelastmovement
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The Last Movement
So this is what dying is like, he thought. Hold still and wait. from The Last Movement by Robert Seethaler In 1910, Gustav Mahler is on the ship Amerika bound for Europe. He is in failing health. I…
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Ghost Town by Tom Perrotta
The sky was blue, the grass was green, and Creamwood was white. from Ghost Town by Tom Perrotta Jimmy grew up in Creamwood, NJ, and as an adult is returning to attend a ceremony; they are naming a …
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The Original by Priya Parmar
I was hooked by the first sentence: “We don’t take cowards here.” And I kept turning pages, propelled by the short clips from different viewpoints, the charged energy of the story…
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My latest
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Elegy in Blue by Mark Helprin
The story I’m about to tell, of love in a time of violence, is complicated, with many diversions. As it soon will end in my death, I have nothing to lose and can say what I wish. from Elegy i…
https://theliteratequilter.wordpress.com/2026/04/27/elegy-in-blue-by-mark-helprin/
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But there was no guarantee against the corruption of the people. Laws and norms don’t have the power to protect democracy if people aren’t willing to enforce them.
#sundaysentence
#allwesay
#benrhodes
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Poetry Says It Better by Ellen Burstyn
I think what makes a good poet a good poet is that they’ve found a way to express themselves with their true voice. from Poetry Says It Better by Ellen Burstyn This is more than a collection …
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#theemersoncircle
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The Emerson Circle by Bruce Nichols
What was truly new in the 1840s was an intellectual revolution. from The Emerson Circle I have my grandfather’s six volume set of Emerson’s writings, published in 1926, the year my gran…
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Three Days in June by Anne Tyler
What was I supposed to do with the rest of my life? I’m too young for this, I thought. Not too old, as you might expect, but too young, too inept, too uninformed. How come there weren’t…
https://theliteratequilter.wordpress.com/2026/04/23/three-days-in-june-by-anne-tyler/
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#livoniachowmein
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Livonia Chow Mein by Abigail Savitch-Lew
This country has enough resources to ensure every person has a home. That’s the America I want to live in. from Livonia Chow Mein by Abigail Savitch-Lew This ambitious, complex novel is fille…
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Willful ignorance and malevolence rarely go unrewarded.
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#thepoweroflife
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“If I’d a known they were gonna start doing talkies,” Dixie said, “I’d a never wasted all that time learning to read.”
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#thecalamityclub
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Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth
This is a love story, by the way. It may not seem like it, what with all the blood and guts and murder, but nevertheless, that’s what it is. And there is no greater love story than that of pl…
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A Different Person: A Memoir by James Merrill
If your father ever knew about your life it would be the death of him. from A Different Person by James Merrill In 1950, after the publication of his first book of poetry, the twenty-four-year-old …
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The Lost Cities of El Norte by Peter Stark
Out here, in the heart of the continent, one can imagine Don Francisco Vazquez de Coronado isolated like Captain Kurtz in his lone outpost up the Congo River, European rescue parties searching for …
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The Best 2025 Short Stories
These twenty stories do not require something fancy like a projector and a big screen. These twenty show what happens when writers fish in the rivers of their own imagination. from Introduction by …
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Preservation, even just the preservation of a family, was never as easy as people imagined.
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Books, News
Book mail this week included Three Days in June by Anne Tyler, thanks to the publisher The Theater: Courage and Survival in the Defining Atrocity of the Ukraine War by James Verini, thanks to Libra…
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White Moss by Anna Nerkagi
He only ever seemed to have one path–into the past, and that kind of road, however long you ride, has no end. from White Moss Anna Nerkagi was removed from her Nenets community by the Soviets…
https://theliteratequilter.wordpress.com/2026/04/08/white-moss-by-anna-nerkagi/
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#creativecontainergarden
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The Creative Container Garden by Anders Royneberg
This spring we will be completely remaking our patio garden. We are taking out several fruit trees planted forty years ago. Because of our age, I want to create a garden that is easier to install a…
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