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The Sunday Salon: Doing What Comes Naturally

By Tracie | Published: February 28, 2010
Today I finished Stephen King’s book about writing. On Writing is part memoir and part writing advice. Stephen King goes through the first part of the book reviewing his life and what brought him to writing. The other part of the book is about the actual craft: how King spends his days, how he writes, [...]
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Best Books of 2009? I’ll Pass, Thank You.

By Tracie | Published: January 4, 2010
Stephen King recently produced his annual top 10 books of 2009. This years list includes Rough Country by John Sanford, Drood by Dan Simmons and 2666, by Roberto Bolano. While this list is interesting (of course, I read it), I kind of don’t care. There are a couple of reasons that I don’t like “best of” [...]
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The Answer to Why

By Tracie | Published: December 4, 2009
When life doesn’t seem to go our way, at some point in our lives, the inevitable question appears: Why? Many times we ask that question to God and we usually expect a grandiose answer in return. Sometimes the answer is loud and clear, sometimes not so much and other times, do we really want the [...]
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Hurdling Time

By Tracie | Published: November 19, 2009
Booking Through Thursday Challenge for November 19, 2009: Do you think any current author is of the same caliber as Dickens, Austen, Bronte, or any of the classic authors? If so, who, and why do you think so? If not, why not? What books from this era might be read 100 years from now? There is a [...]
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Book into Movie: The Mist

By Tracie | Published: August 11, 2009
Like most Stephen King novels, The Mist, takes place in Maine after a vicious storm. A mist starts to creep up onto the mainland from the water. The mist soon takes over the land and people who go into it do not come back. Before the mist comes into the land, the main character, David, [...]
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