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11 years ago @ Velvet Morning Press - What Makes VMP Differe... · 1 reply · +1 points

Bonne Courage! A great idea and excellent way to use the skills you've both accumulated. I wish you all the best and look forward to seeing your progress.

12 years ago @ http://writinginflow.b... - I Am Trayvon Martin\'s... · 1 reply · +2 points

An encouraging account, thank you so much for sharing it and so pleased you went there and participated, incredibly moving reading your words and there is a power of emotion in your images too.
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13 years ago @ Life Your Way! - Pain Lies! · 1 reply · +1 points

It's good to share, write it out and know we are everywhere sending you light to shine on that dark place, will light a candle here for you to keep it strong for a while longer.
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13 years ago @ http://writinginflow.b... - At Least I Didn\'t Get... · 1 reply · +2 points

Could see that coming, after living in London and all this anti terrorism security, but I love the idea of actually being on the train and just riding it up and down until you've done giving them out, though the camersa might catch you doing that as well.

But good on you for being courageous and doing something outside the comfort zone, love the lessons you took with you, nice that you were able to call on them again in sharing something that you love.
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13 years ago @ Helen Smith - TSS: In My Mailbox · 0 replies · +1 points

Have read good things about it.

I've just started 'The Maid and The Queen' - The Secret History of Joan of Arc', a compelling read so far, amazing how women were traded as future betrothed in order to secure peace between nations like chattels.
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13 years ago @ Helen Smith - Freaks · 0 replies · +1 points

Freakin Awesome. Sounds like fun, a Firestation bookswap, I imagine uniformed men serving tea and cake. Ok just clicked through and see that wasn't on the agenda, great concept though.
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13 years ago @ The Blue Bookcase - Guest Review: The Lacu... · 0 replies · +1 points

Such a wonderful film, I cried again, even though I knew what was coming!

The Lacuna was one of my first reviews on my blog 'Word By Word' http://wp.me/p1nUrn-15 and what a great word 'Lacuna' . I love it!

13 years ago @ The Blue Bookcase - Guest Review: The Lacu... · 2 replies · +1 points

I totally loved this book even though I'd heard lots of "couldn't get into it" but those who love it say persevere, its just a little different to begin with, but hugely rewarding if you continue.

I may have been influenced by the fact that I loved the film 'Frida' and in fact just rewatched it again this weekend, so I was happy to enter a fictional world with the wonderful characters of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera handled by the ever trustworthy Kingsolver.

13 years ago @ The Blue Bookcase - Review: The Awakening ... · 1 reply · +2 points

Love Flaubert's 'Madame Bovary' and loved this too. Did your copy have her short essay 'A Reflection' in it? I love this piece, it has stayed with me always.

Here is a link to it: http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/hour/reflectio...

13 years ago @ Helen Smith - Handwritten, Recogniti... · 0 replies · +1 points

I feel too young to be old fashioned, but when it comes to letter writing I am, it's a hangover from years spent at a boarding schol where letters were a lifeline, so I wrote lots of them and then waited every day for the post to come and to hear my name be read out or not.
I still feel that excitement when I see a handwritten envelope and I know the only way to elicit that is to put pen to paper, so My Dad is a regular recipicient as is a friend who spends most of her days as a guide on the Milford Track in the South Island (NZ) so the letters I get back are of an extraordinary nature and Nature :) Long live the letter!

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