The Girdle of Melian

oh, it's time for November's Insecure Writer's Support Group Day! Purpose: To share and encourage. Writers can express doubts and concerns without fear of appearing foolish or weak. Those who have been through the fire can offer assistance and guidance. It’s a safe haven for insecure writers of all kinds! Posting: The first Wednesday of every month is officially Insecure Writer’s Support Group day. Post your thoughts on your own blog. Talk about your doubts and the fears you have conquered. Discuss your struggles and triumphs. Offer a word of encouragement for others who are struggling. Visit others in the group and connect with your fellow writer - aim for a dozen new people each time - and return comments. This group is all about connecting! Be sure to link to this page and display the badge in your post. And please be sure your avatar links back to your blog!  Our Twitter handle is @TheIWSG and hashtag is #IWSG.    You ready? Let’s rock the neurotic...

allowe'en imagery! These are from a flickr page by the McGill University Libraries . Here we go with the third installment of The Books Read List! It seems like a lot, but so many are short stories, or board books for children! Also, I've noted some of the books read by my daughter that I haven't reread with her, or read at all as they're ones she's reading at school. Books Read Part I Books Read Part II Ellen Tebbits by Beverly Cleary Strider by Beverly Cleary Runaway Ralph by Beverly Cleary Ralph S Mouse by Beverly Cleary The Scottish Prisoner by Diana Gabaldon (reread) The Custom of Army by Diana Gabaldon (short story; reread) The Space Between by Diana Gabaldon (short story; reread) A Plague of Zombies by Diana Gabaldon (short story; reread) A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows by Diana Gabaldon (short story; reread) Virgins by Diana Gabaldon (short story; reread) A Fugitive Green by Diana Gabaldon (short story; reread) Besieged by Diana ...

hich books does Jane Goodall recommend? I came across this interview in The New York Times : What Jane Goodall is reading She answered the "who would you invite to dinner" question! "You’re organizing a literary dinner party. Which three writers, dead or alive, do you invite? 'Shakespeare, Tolkien, Jane Austen or Charlotte Brontë. Or, oh — I want Keats, Byron, Rachel Carson, Dickens, Darwin — and, oh, I so want Churchill and, and, and — my dinner party will need a banqueting hall to fit them all in!'" I last answered that question a year ago : " Emily Carr . Tolkien (though I'd be fainting with nervousness). And the third... Agatha Christie? Lord Rochester? Shakespeare? Chesterton? Pliny the Elder? John Buchan? Jean Little? Dostoyevsky? E Nesbit? The possibilities are endless... " And now... All the rest of the photos from our travels this past summer: Lac de Joux and La Brevine (the Siberia of Switzerland; a pocket valley where the ...