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Book Review #7
Book Review 7: Love on the Range by Jessica Nelson Traci Kenworth A Love Inspired Historical 2012 Hook: Obsession was the way in which madness lay. Gracelyn Riley can’t stop scanning the train platform for Special Agent Striker. Though her parents considered traveling alone unsafe even in 1918’s modern days, the threat of influenza…
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Originally posted on The Ruff Button: No one quality of the mind and heart is more important as an elementconducive to worldly success than civility–that feeling of kindness andlove for our fellow-beings which is expressed in pleasing manners. Yethow many of our young men, with an affected contempt for the forms andconventionalities of life, assume…
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A Journal of Ideas
Journal of Ideas Traci Kenworth Do you keep one? Do you find it useful? I have both a journal and a jar filled with ideas. There basically just those that have come to mind either from dreams or jotting down notes and presto, they appear. The problem for me is I have so many…
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Book Review 6
Book Review: Shattered Me by Tahereh Mafi Traci Kenworth Harper, an Imprint of Harper-Collins 2011 Science Fiction 338 pages Hook: I’ve been locked up for 264 days. Juliette has been a prisoner of the Reestablishment, the initiative that was supposed to help the Earth’s dying society. The same people that pulled her out…
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Reading
Reading: How Important is it to Writers? Traci Kenworth The more you read, the better you become as a writer. You’ve heard this before from other authors, people in the industry, etc. But the question is: how important is it? Very. When we read, we open our minds to knowledge, entertainment, and more. Some…
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Another Miss
Another Miss Traci Kenworth Sorry, everyone, I didn’t get a book review in this week again. More life came into play. Between appointments, errands, and Spring Cleaning the book/s got pushed to the side. I will be back soon and plan to make book reviews a regular feature here. Some problems might occur when…
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When Life Gets in the Way…
When Life Gets in the Way Traci Kenworth You’re going along strong, every word is falling into place, every scene playing off of each other when *boom* something in life happens. It can be a car accident, the birth of another/or your first child, or as often happens, health problems. What do you do…
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Book Review 5
Book Review: The Ice Limit by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child Traci Kenworth 2000 Warner Books Inc., a Time Warner Co. Thriller 449 pages Hook: The valley that had no name ran between barren hills, a long mottled floor of gray and green covered with soldier moss, lichens and carpha grasses. The…
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Kids and Pets in Fiction
Kids and Pets in Fiction Traci Kenworth Does the same old adage that said of films, “Don’t work with children or pets,” apply to fiction? I know of some people who don’t like children to be included in the stories they read. I think basically because usually they turn into “jeopardy” situations or they’re…



