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Book Talk 2/25/2020 Traci Kenworth
Book Talk 2/14/2020: Mike Anka’s Dark Alley Traci Kenworth Dark Alley by Mike Anka. YA Drama. Austin Macauley Books Nov. 29, 2019. Netgalley. Amazon’s Blurb: Dramatic circumstances bring together two people, and there is a spark between them. She is fourteen, homeless, smart, wild, and alive. Meanwhile, he is forty, a veteran, straight and slim,…
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Book Talk 11/29/19: Josh Malerman’s A House at the Bottom of the Lake Traci Kenworth
Book Talk 11/29/19: Josh Malerman’s A House at the Bottom of the Lake Traci Kenworth A House at the Bottom of the Lake by Josh Malerman. Received a copy due to membership with the This is Horror Show with Michael David Wilson and Bob Pastorella. Amazon’s blurb: oth seventeen. Both afraid. But both saying yes.…
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The Future of Book Reviews on This Blog
The Future of Book Reviews on This Blog Traci Kenworth For some time I’ve been thinking about these book reviews and whether they take the blog in the direction I want it to go. I’ve decided that they don’t. This doesn’t mean I’m giving up on reading books or the…
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Book Review: Happiness Is…
Book Review: Happiness Is… Traci Kenworth The book is published by Word Publishing and has no author listed. 1995. I ran across this little book on my shelf the other day and waxed nostalgic. This book was gifted to me about seven months before my marriage,…
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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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I’ve accepted another tag…
Barbara’s Meanderings has tagged me. Here are the questions: 1. If you could be any famous person, who would you be? I don’t know if I’d want their crazy, publicity-hounded lives, but if I could be the female Stephen King and write as many books as he has, make them as fantastic as he has,…
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First Book Review of 2012
First Book Review for the Year 2012 Traci Kenworth Featuring: Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake YA Supernatural Horror. Tor Teen. “Just your average boy-meets-girl, girl-kills people story.” I actually read a hundred-and-fourteen pages of this last year, but carried it over into this one. Let me start of by saying…
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Keeping Up with Your Career
Keeping Up with Your Career Traci Kenworth Are you keeping up with your career? Do you research new findings? Study where you’ve been and where you’re going? I think it’s important to do so. Not only do you stay fresh, but it brings more to the bargaining table. Never stop learning is a promise…
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My Writing Journal
My Writing Journal Traci Kenworth With the New Year at hand, I’ve decided to embark on some things I’ve thought about doing in the past, but didn’t get around to it. Yesterday, I pulled out my first book for reading in 2012 (although I read a hundred-and-fourteen last month), Anna Dressed in Blood by…
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How to Place Your Characters
How to Place Your Characters Introductions Traci Kenworth So you’ve come up with the great idea and it’s burning a hole through your gut, just aching to be written. How do you know where to begin? Should it be with Grandpa Sneitzler? The maid? The boy down on the dairy farm? Who to pick?…



