https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.o2HskgC0jJNwNgJO67zBfgHaD4%26pid%3DApi&f=1 Growing up in rural Southern Illinois, you hear stories about how tough the Great Depression was on farm families. If you stick around into adulthood to call i...

What's your thoughts on the retelling of 1984?: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/dec/07/feminist-retelling-of-nineteen-eighty-four-approved-by-orwells-estate Apparently this has caused a bit of a stir. Personally, I don't mind it. Of all the pressing issues facing the world, this doesn't rank ...

Thanks, LanDroid. Sent you a message.

Ever since I’ve backed away from mainstream social media sites, friends, most of them writers, have reached out to ask me how I’m doing. Even though I appreciate the kindness in their asking, I can’t help but feel some kind of motive to try and coax me back into the world of mainstream social media....

It’s good to revisit well read books. There’s been several books mentioned on BookTalk I had familiarity with yet went back to because someone started a discussion on them. I read a comment the other day, I think it was on Reddit, where the commentator liked to imagine that Orwell wanted to test the...

I been reading the comments. ;) Still not persuaded to read a Deckle edge book without first wearing a pair of Jersey gloves. Further, in the future, someone will read this post and say to self, "That's what it's called." They'll probably disagree with me, but that's cool. At least I taugh...

Deckle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deckle It’s the torn paper look (feel) you find on some books. Personally, I don’t like it. If a book's old, it’s not a big deal, but on new books, I rank it up there with holding chalk. I have read books with deckle edge and own few with it, but I have also wor...

I wrote this story in 2004. It came out in a magazine. It's on the Internet Archive. Here's the story link: https://archive.org/details/island-hill-by-brooks-kohler-2004-e-book-version https://ia801502.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/18/items/island-hill-by-brooks-kohler-2004-e-b...

Whether genuine or not, outside asking an online forum to help in the search, I’m surprised there isn’t some kind of research tool that allows one to search for keywords of plots or book descriptions from book databases. I mean, when a book’s published, they tend to add details into a library databa...

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