Tag: Words Matter
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Book Fact: Length Doesn’t Matter
Les Misérables contains a sentence that is widely cited as being 823 words long in English translation. This exceptionally long sentence appears in Volume 2, Book 1, Chapter 3, within a detailed description of the Battle of Waterloo. It is known for its sprawling, detailed prose, characteristic of Hugo’s writing style, and has been cited in past editions…
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Book Fact: Children are better than Books
Book Fact #5 Roosevelt read an average of one book per day. Here are President Roosevelts rules for reading. 1. “The room for choice is so limitless that to my mind it seems absurd to try to make catalogues which shall be supposed to appeal to all the best thinkers. This is why I have…
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Book Fact: Words Flow Vertical 
For a significant part of her life, Woolf wrote her novels while at a desk standing about three feet six inches high with a sloping top; it was so high that she had to stand to her work. Her sister painted standing up, so Virginia felt that her own pursuit might appear less difficult than…
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New Blog Series: Book Facts
Hello friend, I’m going to start a new series today called Book Facts. This will be a series of random facts about a book, reading, writing, libraries, or any other interesting book related subject. I plan to post every day. However life happens. If I miss a day, don’t hold it against me. I will…
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Lessons In Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
I adore this story, but not for the reason most other reviewers are telling you. Yes it is a book about a woman who defies the patriarchal system in the field of science. I find the relationship between Elizabeth Zott and her dog amazing. The tenacious attitude of her daughter delightful. I’m afraid if I…
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Do I Enjoy Writing?
What do you enjoy most about writing? I’m not so sure that I enjoy writing. It’s something I am compelled to do. When I don’t write I get irritable. It’s like a compulsion. I would relate writing to eating. I can skip a meal, but can’t go long without food. Writing is like that for…
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Only the Beautiful
Only the Beautiful by Susan Meissner was an enlightening story about the human response to other humans who are different in ways we don’t understand. In 1938 Rosie was a different girl who suffered from the then unknown condition of Synesthesia. She sees colors when she hears sound. Her parents forced her to hide it.…
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Do you write?
If you are an author you need an editor. As indie authors my husband and I rely heavily on a good editor. Just read over my posts that I have edited myself…see? Told you. We writers have this illusion that we can write and edit our own work. Maybe some writers are that good. Most…
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Spare
Like many Americans I have a fascination with the British royals. The idea of a queen or king is romantic to us because we don’t have one. Little girls want the fairytale. Unfortunately, reality is far from a romantic fairytale. I hesitated to read Spare because of what I thought I knew of Prince Harry…
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Why Bother?
We recently read an article that said the average income for a published author is less than 10k a year. If you factor in that Ebooks are easily pirated and copyrighted material is easily duplicated, the average income drops significantly. One reason that we O’Garas offer ebooks exclusively through Amazon is that if a Dear…
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