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Helen’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Helen’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Helen Maryles Shankman
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In the Land of Armadillos: Stories
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2016
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The Color of Light
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2013
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Grim Fairy Tales
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7 books about the Holocaust scholars say you should read
Honored to find They Were Like Family to Me included in this powerful list of books on this Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Recent releases provide valuable lessons ahead of Yom Hashoah, Israel’s national commemoration for victims of Hitler’s Jewish genocide
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Recent releases provide valuable lessons ahead of Yom Hashoah, Israel’s national commemoration for victims of Hitler’s Jewish genocide
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“You should have noticed by now, sometimes a monster looks just like any other man.”
― In the Land of Armadillos: Stories
― In the Land of Armadillos: Stories
“When your heart breaks, you can actually feel it, an agonizing stab of pain in a muscle that you know for a fact is just a glorified pump. Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, the ordered universe changes, the solid ground beneath your feet becomes a slippery rock. The material world that seemed so safe and solid a moment ago becomes a shifting, ghostly place of shadows and mist. Matters that seemed settled and certain a long ago come suddenly unhinged, and you begin to doubt everything you ever knew to be true.”
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“There’s no such thing as yesterday, he thought dully. Memory is just today, happening over and over again, stamped indelibly with regret.”
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| All About Books: Favorite Books of 2016 | 389 | 263 | Jan 04, 2017 03:27AM | |
| The Mookse and th...: Best books you've read so far in 2016? | 65 | 140 | Jan 04, 2017 04:16AM | |
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Books read in 2016 - Target 50,000
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“I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed.”
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“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”
― Ways of Escape
― Ways of Escape
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Dolors wrote: "Honored (and thrilled!) to be your friend, Hellen. Thanks for sending a request. Best wishes from Barcelona! :)"Thank you for accepting, Dolors! I've been reading your moving and lyrical comments and reviews for so long, I can't believe we haven't been friends for all these years!
Honored (and thrilled!) to be your friend, Hellen. Thanks for sending a request. Best wishes from Barcelona! :)
Oh, that's so nice! Thank you, Kris! I look forward to it too!
Helen, thank you so much for the friend request! I'm delighted to accept it, and look forward to many good discussions with you, including in the Buddenbrooks group. :)
Jessica--just to be perfectly clear---you use Garamond for manuscripts that you send to your editors and publishers?
No. Just for the usual stuff, words in foreign languages, or for emphasis.
you're not using italic for the whole ms., are you? that wouldn't be good.
Really? It would be great if I didn't have to change it. Thanks for the note, Jessica. Big help.
Helen, I couldn't help seeing your comments on my feed about Times New Roman vs. Garamond... I wouldn't think it matters. Garamond is a much nicer typeface and isn't so wildly different from standard Times. I'm one for visual effect...there's an elegance to Garamond. My 2c. (unasked for, I know!)
Sketchbook wrote: "Great comment by you to Paul on the 'secret institution.'"Thanks! I actually thought he was quoting from a book he was writing!
Great comment by you to Paul on the 'secret institution.'
