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Author Archives: tkflor
A bookstore, supply and demand, and reality check for readers and writers
“Seventy-five dollars?” said Imp. “Just to play music?” “That’s twenty-five dollars registration fee, thirty-five dollars up front against fees, and fifteen dollars voluntary compulsory annual subscription to the Pension Fund,” said Mr. Clete, secretary of the Guild. From Soul Music … Continue reading
Posted in fiction, literature, self-publishing, writing
Tagged books, bookstores, readers and writers, supply and demand, Terry Pratchett
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The Choice and what comes after that
“Breen awakened. Breen became. Breen chose. THAT was the story. Mission accomplished. I cannot give each individual reader all they want. And I won’t. I will tell you the story that comes to me, and work hard to make it … Continue reading
Posted in fantasy, fiction, literature, writing
Tagged Dragon Heart Legacy, Nora Roberts, The Choice, The Dragon Heart
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Pumpkin and Honey bread
This recipe was adapted from The Martha Stewart Cookbook. We used a can of pumpkin purée. Honey provides a good balance against the taste of pumpkin: the bread was eaten (with a helping) by someone wary of anything pumpkin! Makes … Continue reading
Posted in cakes and desserts, recepies
Tagged Pumpkin and Honey, pumpkin and honey bread, pumpkin bread
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The Greeks – A Global History
“…when we think of ‘Greeks’, what comes to mind first is likely to be the artistic and scientific achievements of a group of city-states led by Athens and Sparta around two and a half thousand years ago.” From the preface … Continue reading
Posted in biography
Tagged Ancient Greece, book review, Greek history, Greek influences, greek mythology, Greek Revival, Greeks, history
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The Strangest Man – the Hidden life of Paul Dirac
The equation was “achingly beautiful”, as theoretical physicist Frank Wilczek later described it: like Einstein’s equation of general relativity, the Dirac equation was universal yet fundamentally simple; nothing in it could be changed without destroying its power. The Strangest Man, … Continue reading
Genuine Lies – Fictional memories of a movie star
Genuine Lies by Nora Roberts “There’s always something redeeming in trash. I’ve done plenty of trash and made it shine. This” – she kicked the script again with relish – “is shit.” “She” is Eve Benedict, an aging movie star … Continue reading
Book review: The Tenth Muse
This is a review of The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung, that I posted on Goodreads. The notion of the tenth muse, who is reborn in every generation as a mortal gifted woman drew me to read this book. The … Continue reading
Posted in academia, fiction, literature
Tagged academic career, history of science, muse, women in science
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Book review: Ascension
This is a book review for Ascension: A Story of Mental Illness by Daniel Trump, which I posted on Goodreads. My rating: 5 of 5 stars Mental illness is a scary topic, especially when it comes out of the blue … Continue reading
Posted in biography, fiction, literary fiction, literature, self-publishing, writing
Tagged mental illness
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Do muses exist?
“Any medical facility can verify that I have regular vision, hearing, blood type, and every other organ and bodily function. But what does it prove? A hundred years ago, the best doctors and brightest scientists had no clue about DNA. … Continue reading
Did Thomas Young perform his most famous experiment?
“phenomena of nature resemble the scattered leaves of the Sibylline prophecies; a word only, or a single syllable, is written on each leaf, which, when separately considered, conveys no instruction to the mind; but when, by the labor of patient … Continue reading