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One Book I Loved, One Book I Didn’t
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One Book I Loved, One Book I Didn’t

Posted on October 17, 2016 by spinningjenni • Leave a comment

Day 7 of the 30 Day Writing Challenge Discuss One Book You Loved, and One You Didn’t The book I love the most is The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. If you haven’t read it, finish reading this blog, share it, and then go out and get that book. It has pirates, sword … Continue reading →

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5 Surprisingly Good Celebrity Novelists

Posted on July 30, 2013 by spinningjenni • Leave a comment

These days it seems like every celebrity and everybody who thinks they’re a celebrity has written a book. Then, you read the fine print and see that really a ghost writer actually did all the work while the “author” babbled on about a series of unrelated experiences over a mimosa and a cigarette. Anyway, that got me … Continue reading →

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A Conversation With Stephen King

Posted on November 13, 2011 by spinningjenni • Leave a comment

Last week I got to cross a big item off the Bucket List. One that I never really thought would get crossed off, so I actually had forgotten about it until the opportunity presented itself in crazy, random sort of happenstance way. Stephen King was in Dallas last week promoting his new novel 11/22/63 (about a guy who … Continue reading →

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Oh The Horror

Posted on October 6, 2011 by spinningjenni • 2 Comments

I have a deep and profound love of horror. I have my whole life. As a kid (and still to this day quite frankly) my favorite part of Willy Wonka was when they take the boat into the tunnel and Gene Wilder is reciting that eerie poem with a look of insanity in his eye while … Continue reading →

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Parallels

Posted on July 11, 2011 by spinningjenni • 2 Comments

Sometimes in literature we come across stories that mirror the goings on of our own lives. This of course hearkens back to the age old Art Imitating Life/Life Imitating Art debate, but that makes it no less uncanny that someone else’s writing – someone else’s fiction – seems to have been adapted right out of your … Continue reading →

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