Tag: Reading
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Musings & Thoughts for Saturday, March 23, 2024, or: Snow Storm Follies
Late Morning/Early Afternoon, Saturday, March 23, 2024, Madison, New Hampshire Hey, there, folks. It’s a decidedly wintry day here in my corner of New England. Even though it is early spring, we are in the midst of a winter storm. It started snowing last night, and it has not stopped since. Currently, the temperature is…
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Musings & Thoughts for Friday, March 22, 2024, or: A Late Start to My Writing Workday
Late Morning/Midday, Friday, March 22, 2024, Madison, New Hampshire Hi, everyone. It’s late morning (almost noon, in fact)on a sunny but frigid early spring day here in eastern New Hampshire. Currently, the temperature is 30°F (-1°C) under sunny skies. With humidity at 14% and the wind blowing from the north-northwest at 7 MPH (11 KMH),…
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Musings & Thoughts for Thursday, March 21, 2024, or: A Quick Progress Report on My Novelist’s Journey
Late Morning, Thursday, March 21, 2024, Madison, New Hampshire Hi, everyone. It’s a sunny but frigid early spring day in eastern New Hampshire. Currently, the temperature is 22°F (-6°C) under sunny skies. With the wind blowing from the west-northwest at 14 MPH (22 KMH) and humidity at 39%, the wind chill factor is 14°F (-10°C).…
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On Books & Reading: My Much Delayed Update of My TBR Pile
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in Books, Creative Writing, Fire & Steel: The End of World War Two in the West, James D. Hornfischer, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Peter Caddick-Adams, Star Wars Books, Star Wars: Brotherhood, The Kick-Ass Writer (Chuck Wendig), To Be Read (TBR) Stack, Who Can Hold the Sea: The U.S. Navy in the Cold War 1945-1960Late Morning, Tuesday, September 19, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, all. It’s another warm early fall day here in the Tampa Bay area. As I begin this, my 366th post for 2023 and 1,265th overall since I started A Certain Point of View, Too in March 2020, the temperature outside is 80°F/27°C under mostly cloudy conditions.…
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On Writing & Storytelling: Carving Out Reading Time in Order to Write (Better) – The Saga Continues
It’s late morning in Lithia, Florida, on Friday, April 7, 2023. As the second movement (allegro sostenuto) from Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor plays in my Amazon Music app, I am, once again, thinking about finding a workable balance between writing, reading, and leisure time. As it stands, I spend most of…
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Author & Reader (A Septolet)
Author tapping fingers upon the keyboard, creating worlds. Reader diving eagerly into the tale.
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On Books & Reading: The Joy of Reading (and Rereading) Books…It’s in My DNA!
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in Blogging, Books, Emmanuelle (1974), Erotic Movies, Family History, Ian Doescher, Life in Florida, Life in Miami (1972-2016), Life in South Florida, Life in the Tampa Bay area, Life in the United States, Military History, Movies, Personal Thoughts, Rick Atkinson, Star Wars: A New Hope, The Liberation Trilogy, William Shakespeare's Star WarsOn Books and Reading “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”― Oscar Wilde Over the years, as I have grown older, grayer, and more set in my ways, I’ve noticed how many habits I have that are like those of my mom…
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On Books & Reading: An Oral History of 9/11, and Observations About ‘The Third World War’ Duology
The Growing TBR Stack My copy of Garrett M. Graff’s The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 arrived yesterday at 4:56 PM. I retrieved it from our front porch where the Amazon Prime driver had dropped it off, and within a few minutes I had taken it out of its shipping…
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On Books & Reading: My TBR Stack – Any Progress Yet?
Greetings, Dear Reader. It is late morning in Lithia, Florida, on Tuesday, June 7, 2022. It is a warm, humid day here in the Tampa Bay area. Currently, the temperature is 84°F (29°C) under sunny skies. With humidity at 80% and the wind blowing at 2 MPH (3 KM/H) from the north-northwest, the heat index…
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On Books & Reading: My TBR List for February 2022
Hi there, Dear Reader. It’s mid-afternoon in Lithia, Florida on Thursday, February 3, 2022. Not surprisingly, it is a warm Florida winter’s day. Currently, the temperature is 83˚F (28˚C) under sunny skies. With humidity at 49% and the wind blowing from the south-southeast at 12 MPH (19 KM/H), the feels-like temperature is 83˚F (28˚C). Today’s…
A Certain Point of View, Too 