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Doreen Frances
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Storyteller | Writer
🎭 A touch vintage with a shot of nostalgia, and a slice of self deprecating humor
📝 Memoir in progress!
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#vintagestylenotvintagevalues
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October 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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I've been at this for almost a year. Will I ever think it's good enough? #writerslife #editing #rewriting
Picture of scrap of notebook paper which says in script: What it's been like working on my website copy: Write, rewrite, write, rewrite, edit, edit some more, think it's good, come back, think it stinks, start over, write, rewrite, condense, edit, fix grammar... think it's great, re-read, think it stinks, write, re-write, edit, edit some more, think having a website is stupid, think everyone will hate me, "Who do you think you are having a website?" Tell negative voice to shut up, keep writing, rewrite, edit...
May 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 💙📚Day 20 #booksky
Book cover with the photograph of a young boy with blue eyes on the left looking up toward the sky. On the right in tall red lettering is the title: A Child Called "It" in black lettering below the subtitle reads: One child's courage to survive. On the bottom right of the cover in white lettering is the author's name: Dave Pelzer.
April 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 💙📚Day 19 #booksky
Off white book cover on the top of the page is the title in thick black lettering "Bless the Beasts and the Children". At the bottom of the page is the author's name in dark red thick lettering "Glendon Swarthout"
March 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 💙📚Day 18 #booksky
Black and white photo of a barefoot boy with a sweater, short pants and cap standing on a sidewalk, leaning against a stone wall of a house with a boarded window. The title at top of the photo in black large type says : Angela's Ashes (A Memoir) and the author's name on the bottom in black large type reads; Frank McCourt
March 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 💙📚Day 17 #booksky
Red book jacket with yellow lettering. Title reads: The Catcher in the Rye beneath title is the author's name: J. D. Salinger
March 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Omg, he looks like Lady Elaine Fairchilde from Mr. Rogers Neighborhood
March 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 💙📚Day 16 #booksky
Book jacket with title in thick orange letters: Z for Zachariah placed diagnal across the top. Below is authors name in small white letters: Robert C. O'Brien. In the top right hand corner of the jacket the words: "Nuclear doomsday had come and she was the only one alive.. or so she thought." The background of the jacket is brown/ maroon with a picture of a young blonde woman with a serious face with long hair to the right and to the left a person in a green spacesuit with helmet. In the reflection of the helmet face is a nuclear mushroom cloud.
February 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 💙📚Day 15 #booksky
Book cover with a tan, beige and light blue back ground with dark tan lettering at the top with the title "Island of the Blue Dolphins" Below the title is a drawing of an indigenous girl with long black hair and white shell earrings. Below the picture is a gold stamp with "Newberry Award" and below the stamp is the author's name in black lettering :Scott O'Dell
February 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 💙📚Day 14 #booksky
Book jacket with black and white picture in background of H Block prisons in Northern Ireland. Top of jacket in a black text box small white lettering reads: David Beresford (author) below author's name is the title in think block orange letters: Ten Men Dead. Underneath the title is a clear picture of the H Block prison. Below that in white bold lettering: "Possibly the best book to emerge from the past 20 years of conflict in Northern Ireland - The Observer"
February 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 💙📚Day 13 #booksky
Book cover - Top left corner author's name: Leon Uris. Black ink on a green triangle. Middle of the book diagonal from left to right in thick black large type with white background the title: Trinity. Bottom right side of book cover on an orange back ground is a black cross with three circles and words below the cross: A novel of Ireland.
February 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 💙📚Day 12 #booksky
Book cover jacket: Top of jacket are the words written in white: The conquest of the New World. Underneath the word American in large red bold type below the word American is a yellow and black drawing of indigenous people and colonizers fighting. Below the yellow and black drawing is the word Holocaust in large bold red type. The author of the book is David Stannard.
February 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 💙📚Day 11 #booksky
Book jacket with title The Barrytown Trilogy in purple, blue, pink, and red lettering. The title below says: The Commitments/The Snapper/The Van. Underneath is a black and white photo of a council flat in Dublin with laundry hanging out on the line. Under the picture is the author's name, Roddy Doyle
February 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 💙📚Day 10
The book jacket has the author's name, John Collier, on top and the title His Monkey Wife in pink below. Drawing of a caucasian man in 1930's 1930s-style clothing seated in a rattan chair. Standing beside him is a chimpanzee dressed as a bride with a long veil and high collar white wedding dress holding a bouquet.
February 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 💙📚Day 9 #BookSky
Cream color book jacket with red trim at edge and red title: The Five People you Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom author of Tuesday's with Morrie. There is a black and white graphic of a ferris wheel in the middle of the cover above the title.
February 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 💙📚 Day 8
Yellow book jacket with Red script title: Living, Loving & Learning by Leo F. Buscaglia, Ph.D. Center of jacket is a black and white photo of a dark haired man hugging a woman with long blonde hair.
February 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 💙📚 Day 7
February 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 💙📚 Day 6
Brown cover with tan and orange title: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown. Below the title, a black-and-white photo of an Indigenous person appears.
February 12, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 💙📚 Day 4, 5 (I've decided this counts as two. The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy)
4 book covers. The Hobbit, woods and river artwork. The Fellowship of the Ring a mountain and a road. The Two Towers Trees without leaves in the forest and The Return of the King a brick tower
February 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 💙📚 Day 3
Book Jacket of Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau. Aqua colored cover featuring a drawing of a pond and a man sitting under a tree in the tall grass by the pond.
February 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 💙📚 Day 2
Black book cover titled "Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl" with black and white portrait of Anne.
February 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 💙📚
February 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM