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Slowing it Down: Talking Snow, Story, and Swirling Change

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Greetings from Park City where the world outside my window swirls with snow and the world inside my head swirls with story—from all that I saw at The Sundance Film Festival, as well as daily reading and writing. This includes re-reading Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and Middlemarch by…
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Little Monsters by Adrienne Brodeur

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Little Monsters by Adrienne Brodeur In Little Monsters, as in her memoir Wild Game, I loved Brodeur's writing, especially the descriptions of Cape Cod. The portrayal of setting was my favorite thing about this book. My second favorite book was Adam's character. He is bipolar…
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New Year, New Writing Updates!

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The essay "New Year, New Writing Updates!" originally appeared on Jeannie's Substack, Constantly Curating. Subscribe here for monthly updates! Happy New Year! If you're a long-time reader or you've subscribed to my newsletter in the past, you may have noticed I’ve migrated…
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The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell

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The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell If you loved Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, this one is a bit of a let down. — dead sister's intended husband. He is a cruel duke and she senses she is in danger in the palace. Little is known about the real Lucrezia except that her…
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Wouldn’t We All Love a Master Plan?

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People ask what happens on the farm during the winter. The answer is a lot: planning, budgeting, and purchasing new equipment. Since Flynn Creek Farm is still so new to us, our planning is on two levels.  The first is for the short term – what are we going to do next season? We…
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The Stark Beauty of Last Things by Celine Keating

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The Stark Beauty of Last Things by Celine Keating The Stark Beauty of Last Things is a poetic novel that emphasizes the fragility of the worlds we occupy- relationships, lives, places - are all fleeting. The problem is that humans often fail to understand this until it is…
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Daughter of a Promise

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The Nine

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Eden: A Novel

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