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The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom [A Book Club Discussion]

The Yellow Houseby Sarah M. Broom Published: 2019-08-13New York: Grove Press — Currently reading this for @BookNOLA club choice for

The new year is the perfect time to set new reading goals! This is my “want to read” list, my “TBR”

Welcome back for Literary Gastronomy, Part 2. “Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.”

Virginia Woolf, who placed much emphasis upon dining within her works, famously said that “one cannot think well, love well,

I’ve recently become enamored with the literary tours around the country that delve deep into the writing history of the

If you recall, back in… October… (seems like a lifetime ago in this pandemic), I had a post titled “FAVORITE

Facts, facts, facts; there is nothing but facts. The writer’s first business is to get at these facts exactly —get

What a long, strange trip it’s been since March 2020, when the latest pandemic has hit the country, Coronavirus (COVID-19).

Do you have a word list, a list of favorite words that you have kept forever? I do. I guess

#the more you know… Those margins weren’t inserted as a guide for how many sentences you should fit onto a

Today’s Lunchbox Lesson: ALUMNUS, ALUMNI, ALUMNA, and ALUMNAE These words all describe attending or graduating from a particular school, but

In the days of Westward Expansion, before the freeways and highways were taking us places quickly, waves of migrants were

Instead of looking down at your phone screen, why not “look up” and see what’s hidden in the flaked paint

Thanks to something called ablaut reduplication — a rule stating that, if you repeat a word and change an internal vowel, the

Ever wonder where ideas come from? Do they come while you’re daydreaming, or standing in the shower? Do you have