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Tonstant Weader Reviews: Psychic Dolphins and Boring-Ass Penguins: Madeleine L'Engle's "A Ring of Endless Light" vs. "Troubling a Star"
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Saturday, February 1, 2014. Psychic Dolphins and Boring-Ass Penguins: Madeleine L'Engle's "A Ring of Endless Light" vs. "Troubling a Star". I was going to make this into two separate reviews- one for A Ring of Endless Light. And one for its' companion novel, Troubling a Star. However, I decided that the best course of action would be to do my first ever side-by-side review of both books, just to save time. A Ring of Endless Light. And The Young Unicorns,). Following up from Light,. Somebody sings to baby...
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Tonstant Weader Reviews: Dangerous (and Feminist) Beauty: "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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Friday, April 11, 2014. Dangerous (and Feminist) Beauty: "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray. According to Ms. Bray's Acknowledgments page, the prompt "A plane full of beauty queens crash lands on a desert island" had been pitched to her multiple times before. And when she finally turned it into a story, she took the concept leaps and bounds beyond what anyone been expecting. Not Quite. And who watches MTV anymore? Or Jennifer's Body,). And television broadcasts with Ladybird Hope, an obvious Sarah Palin sound...
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Tonstant Weader Reviews: October 2013
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013. Scarborough Fair Is Not A Love Song: "Impossible" by Nancy Werlin. From the sting of my curse she can never be free. Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme. Unless she unravels my riddlings three. She will be a true love of mine. And her daughters forever possessions of mine. Surprisingly, it was much better than I'd anticipated. Of internal monologue, in which we are privy to every thought going through her mind, to give him an answer. It tested my patience a little, I admit. I def...
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Tonstant Weader Reviews: I'm Your Venus: "Gorgeous" by Paul Rudnick
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Tuesday, February 11, 2014. I'm Your Venus: "Gorgeous" by Paul Rudnick. Becky is understandably skeptical at first, but as a young woman who has been called an "uggabug" by her high school classmates and always yearned for beauty, she eventually relents. The first dress changes her outward appearance so that anyone who looks at her sees a woman of incomparable, unearthly beauty. Her career as newly discovered supermodel Rebecca Randle skyrockets, with Tom Kelly and his crew pulling the strings.
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WRITERS’ QUOTES | Joyce Marcel
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Praise for Joyce Marcel’s Columns. Thousand Words or Less. Made of stories, not of atoms". The Commons / Vermont Independent Media. Subscribe to learn about new posts. WHY I LOVE PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA. LITERARY COUP DE FOUDRES: THE FIVE BOOKS CHANGED MY LIFE. Where Western civilization marches on: Notes on the Miami Book Fair as a snapshot of our times and our culture. I’VE BEEN PAINTED! A CIVIL WAR MEMORIAL DAY. Find Me on Facebook. A CIVIL WAR MEMORIAL DAY. I’VE BEEN PAINTED! June 22, 2015.
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The Balloon Man | Joyce Marcel
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Praise for Joyce Marcel’s Columns. Thousand Words or Less. Made of stories, not of atoms". The Commons / Vermont Independent Media. Subscribe to learn about new posts. WHY I LOVE PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA. LITERARY COUP DE FOUDRES: THE FIVE BOOKS CHANGED MY LIFE. Where Western civilization marches on: Notes on the Miami Book Fair as a snapshot of our times and our culture. I’VE BEEN PAINTED! A CIVIL WAR MEMORIAL DAY. Find Me on Facebook. It was love at first sight and I don’t say that often. Wearing a soft ...
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Tonstant Weader Reviews: March 2014
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Saturday, March 22, 2014. Footnotes: The Universal Seal of Approval. Since I'm currently reading a Libba Bray book that I'll be reviewing later, I thought I'd keep this blog alive with another installment of Footnotes. This week, I'll be discussing a common trope in Badly Written Romances that I like to call "The Universal Seal of Approval.". This is when a couple isn't content to consider their love the Truest Of All Loves. Oh, no. Everyone else around them must be equally. All who do not understand thi...
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Resources - Home Energy Advocates
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Project Pictures and Images. Explore how other people in Vermont have invested in conservation: how much their home energy retrofit cost, how much energy it is saving them each year, what was done and the payback period on their investment. A montage of photographs and infra-red images from Home Energy Advocates' projects that help to explain buildings and energy conservation. Vermont's Commitment to Renewable Energy and Conservation. Articles, References and Information. Bulk purchasing the sun. Article...
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Tonstant Weader Reviews: January 2014
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Friday, January 3, 2014. Elder God-Approved Romance: "Awoken" by Serra Elinsen. If you are tired of Young Adult Paranormal Romances, in which blank-slate female characters whine about their dull lives until they meet a sublimely handsome, mysterious douche of a guy who feels compelled to boss them around and Suddenly Life Has Meaning, be of good cheer. This is exactly that kind of book. But it's not what you think! And Fifty Shades of Grey. Their website, Chez Apocalypse, chronicled their progress in thi...
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Tonstant Weader Reviews: August 2013
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Thursday, August 22, 2013. I am Divergent.And a Little Bored: "Divergent" by Veronica Roth. Guys, I wanted to love this book. I wanted to become swept away in another YA dystopia with a proactive, strong-minded female character at the helm just like I was with The Hunger Games. But I have to say this, and I mean no disrespect when I do: Tris is no Katniss Everdeen. But that is NOT A COMPLAINT. I would have been thrown off even more if Tris was too much. Although it might have helped if we'd been given EX...
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