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I spent 15 minutes this morning making an art project

#AnalogCollage #The100DayProject

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Cat Face Collage
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February 1, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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The 100 Day Project is coming soon

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Coming: The 100 Day Project
We are coming up on the start of the 100 Day Project soon. I hope to make something — drawings, prints, or short writing on an index card ea...
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January 31, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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My latest book review

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Review of the Day Ray Bradbury’s The October Country
This collection of stories might be called quiet horror; for Bradbury the things we fear most are often the things we have hidden within our...
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January 31, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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Review of the Day: A Medicine for Melancholy

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Review of the Day: A Medicine for Melancholy and Other Stories by Ray Bradbury
A Medicine for Melancholy by Ray Bradbury is a collection of 22 stories, originally published in 1959.  My personal favorite story in the co...
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January 14, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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My latest review of Xiolu Guo’s newest novel:

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#CallMeIshmaelle #NetGalley
Review of the Day: Call Me Ishmaelle by Xiaolu Guo
I decided to request Guo’s retelling of Moby Dick from a female perspective because I saw a starred review in Kirkus Reviews that said “ The...
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January 13, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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Recent Reading: The American Revolution

#TheAmericanRevolution #PBS

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Recent Reading: The American Revolution
I have watched a good part of the PBS television documentary and have been reading the companion book: The American Revolution: An intimate ...
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December 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Oak and Maple Leaf Gelliprint Made After Raking

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Oak and Maple Leaf Gelliprint Made After Raking
Currently I am listening to Fela Kuti: Fear No Man which is available as an Audible audiobook or a free podcast where ever you find your pod...
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November 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Listening to Fela Kuti Fear No Man when I was inspired to make a maple leaf collage

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Fela Kuti Maple Leaf Collage
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November 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Recent Reading: Wendell Berry

#TheMemoryOfOldJack #Books

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Recent Reading
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November 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Review of the Day #OfficeOfHistoricalCorrections #Books

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Review of the Day: Office of Historical Corrections
The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans is a collection of six stories as well as the title story which is a novella slightly...
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November 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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My review of The Third Love

#TheThirdLove #Books

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Scott Lives in Jersey Now
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November 16, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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My Latest Review: The Sunshine Man

#TheSunshineMan #NetGalley

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Review of the Day: The Sunshine Man by Emma Stonex
The publisher calls Emma Stonex’s novel The Sunshine Man “a tense, spellbinding page-turner.” It does start with a good first sentence. T...
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October 28, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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My most recent review: Bryan Washington’s Palaver

#Palaver #NetGalley

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Review: Palaver
Palaver by Bryan Washington is a story about a gay American man living in Tokyo— called only The Son, who was raised in Houston but comes fr...
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October 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Fall in South Jersey

#Nature #FallColors

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Fall in South Jersey
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October 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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My thoughts on Salman Rushdie’s latest

#TheEleventhHour #NetGalley

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Review: The Eleventh Hour
The Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie is a collection of five stories and the first book of fiction the author has published since the violenc...
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October 25, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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I believe there is only one highway rest stop in New Jersey named for a novelist. Here are a few thoughts I had at that rest stop yesterday.

#JudyBlume #PhilipRoth

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Two Great New Jersey Books
At least in my opinion, two of the best books written by New Jersey writers in my lifetime are Judy Blume’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Marg...
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October 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Check out my latest review

#NetGalley #ThisIsTheOnlyKingdom

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Review: This Is the Only Kingdom
Publishing Tuesday  This is The Only Kingdom by Jaquira Diaz is a multigenerational family story that takes place in Puerto Rico and South...
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October 19, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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My thoughts on Brandon Taylor’s newest novel which was just published yesterday

#MinorBlackFigures #NetGalley

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Review of the Day: Minor Black Figures
Brandon Taylor’s novel is the story of Wyeth, a black gay artist living in NYC. While Wyeth is an artist working in a low level job for a ga...
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October 15, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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My review of a Hollywood satire with some great prose

#Television #NetGalley

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Review of the Day: Television
Television by Lauren Rothery is a satire of Hollywood and the movie industry. The plot is a little thin and occasionally hard to follow; the...
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September 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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My latest review

#ReadTheRaise #NetGalley

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Review of the Day: The Raise
Other people might like this book; this was not a book I enjoyed. The Raise is a first person female centric thriller set in a technology c...
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September 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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My thoughts on Kiran Desai’s remarkable novel

#Books

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Review of the Day: The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
Given the length of complexity of this remarkable novel, I have skipped any attempt to summarize the plot and just share two sections I e...
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September 29, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Junk Journal Week 39

#RobertAltman ##JunkJournal

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Junk Journal Week 39
Still feeling a bit under the weather with this virus, but I’m caught up on the junk journals now. I finally read Katherine Dunn’s Geek Lo...
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September 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Catching up from week 38

What have you been reading and watching?

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Junk Journal Week 38
Catching up with a previous week on my media consumption. Lately a respiratory virus has slowed me down some.  What about you? Tell me about...
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September 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Three Leaves I Found On My Walk

#Art #AnalogCollage

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Three Leaves I Found On My Walk
Current reading:  Kiran Desai’s epic and very much worth reading The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny. 2025 O Henry Prize Winners. One story...
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September 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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#AnalogCollage #Art
Oak Leaf Gelliprint Collage
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September 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM