"City of Girls" by Elizabeth Gilbert takes us into the caverns of the 40s and the 50s New York City. Vivian Morris, a would-have-been-straight-laced Vasser graduate ends up being a promiscuous and down-in-the- pits kind of girl - but she is not without merit. An exceptionally resourceful and skilled seamstress, she also becomes an adept …
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An American Marriage by Tayari Jones is akin to the threading of a quilt worn out not by time but by circumstances. A passionately woven tale of stirring, deep, inseparable love. In the true Shakespearean style, an event as trivial as Roy helping an elderly lady take an ice bucket to her room completely upends …
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When I stand at my kitchen sink washing dishes greased with a welter of Indian curries and sticky dough, I let my mind wander to experience a more colorful palette than the turmeric and paprika floating around with the soap suds. Through those iridescent hollow spheres, I see the embellished sets, the ebullient characters, and …
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Hubris - When false belief sets in and reality slips away, when new money and sudden power settles over someone like a layer of thick dust and fogs their perceptions, when psychotic delusions and manic energy gushes through the veins, and when the line between virtue and vice diminishes. Alexander Pope sums up the impact …
google After all those years as a woman hearing ‘not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,’ almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, ‘I’m enough.’ -Anna Quindlen Gone are the times when women in their 40s were considered matronly, dry, unattractive and past their prime; […]
We are women, hence the strength to go on…. Way back in 1949, Simone de Beauvoir wrote, “I hesitated a long time before writing a book on woman,” De Beauvoir begins. “The subject is irritating, especially for women; and it is not new. Enough ink has flowed over the quarrel about feminism; it is now …
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Remember, you don’t have to be married to one genre. A lot of writers work in more than one field – sometimes they may be connected, other times not. So if you want to write a feature or ad copy while you work on that Great Novel, more power to you.
I’ve been asked more than once when my book was getting published. “I am not writing a book,” I said. Yet, I am a writer. There are many stereotypes attached to writers and the craft of writing. Not all writers are novelists and not all writers have an epiphany from heaven to create memorable pieces. …
The first crack in the wood sends shivers of excitement down the spine of the woodcutter. The periodic and consistent chopping thereafter yields a cadence that fills the inner ear with inexplicable pleasure. Humans have been notorious for not only desiring patterns in music and language but also for getting agitated when it is lacking. …
Raising a child is filled with challenges – sleepless nights, tantrums, tending to a sick child, endless scheduling and deadlines, remembering to fill out numerous forms for doctor visits, schools, games etc. Women are built to take on these motherhood challenges and overcome them. The go-getter executives, the office secretaries, the nurses and the scientists, …
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