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James obtrudes bloody murder into the pleasant, ordered world of Elizabeth and Darcy

…Younger sons cannot marry where they like. …“Is this,” thought Elizabeth, “meant for me?” –Jane Austen At the time she had wondered whether the remark had held a warning and the suspicion had caused her some embarrassment which she had attempted to hide by turning the conversation into a pleasantry. But the memory of the…

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Lagniappe Sunday

Dana sez, Fascinating discussion (video+transcript) on the Hungarian election, with a lot of details that never made it into the Western media. You’ll love the zebras. (Paul Krugman) These are the sweetest little videos. Love the one with the frog. (h/t The Kid Should See This) Quote: “The Epstein files offer the public an education…

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Random Saturday

April 2022. [internal chukar monologue]: “WTH. It’s April 7th, people, and instead of building a nest and making babies I’m sitting here getting snowed on while Crazy Lady takes pictures of me through her window. Enough to make a bird fly south again.” [internal Dana monologue]: “I looked up and he was gone, leaving this…

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#thiswritinglife

I love a good acknowledgements page at the back of a novel, where the author tells us where they got all their ideas. I try to write them for mine, too. Here’s the one I wrote for The Harvey Girl. It’s six pages long in the book, and it ain’t short here, either. I hope…

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Lagniappe Sunday

Artemis II found itself in a solar eclipse while circumnavigating the moon on April 6. (Huge h/t to NASA, with many more photos here)Dana sez, US Senator and former astronaut Mark Kelly’s Facebook feed during the Artemis II mission was a delightful follow, and Fix the News has a long section on the mission with…

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Random Saturday

Harking back to a walking trip I made to France back in April 2015. The walk took us over a section of The Camino, also known as one of many routes European pilgrims and penitents took to Santiago de Compostela, where Saint James is allegedly buried and where he allegedly performed miracles for supplicants. This…

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#thiswritinglife

So a while ago at the Poisoned Pen I pinch hit as host for Barbara Peters, who was slugging back Singapore Slings in the bar at the Raffles Hotel in, you guessed it, Singapore at the time. We’re still not speaking to her. The guest du soir was Paula Lafferty, of the bestseller The Once…

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