There ARE seasonal changes here! Here in Southern California Fall has arrived. Seasonal changes are usually more subtle here than other regions of the country, but not so this year. We’ve already had a rain storm, an odd and eerie thunder (no lightening) event and the temps in the early morning are in the 50s. …
Tag: Sarah Orne Jewett
A White Heron, Sarah Orne Jewett (1886) #ShortStorySaturday
The Story Eight-year old Sylvia came to her grandmother’s house in the woods a year ago to help the old woman with farm chores. She has taken to this new life very easily and now, as her grandmother says, “There ain’t a foot o’ ground she don’t know her way over, and the wild creatures …
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Reading New England Challenge Wrap-Up
Wrap up of the 12 books I read for the Reading New England Challenge
Top Ten Tuesday: New-To-Me Authors I Read For The First Time In 2016
Top Ten Tuesday hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. New authors I discovered in 2016
The Country of the Pointed Firs, Sarah Orne Jewett (1896)
My Edition: Title: The Country of the Pointed Firs Author: Sarah Orne Jewett Publisher: A Public Domain Book Device: Kindle Fire Year: 1896 Pages: 72 For a plot summary When one really knows a village like this and its surroundings, it is like becoming acquainted with a single person. The process of falling in love …
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Relevant Obscurity 