Blogs about: Alexandra Fuller
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Some of the books I love
Cover via Amazon To older followers of Broadside, a thank you — I loved hearing all your book recommendations! Here are just a few of the many books I’ve read and loved, with the nationali… more →
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28 Feb 2013: Apple Sausage Panini
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wrote 2 months ago: lunch on 28 Feb 2013: apple sausage panini This is another “use up the leftovers” lunch. … more →
Upvalley and Downvalley
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wrote 3 months ago: Where I live now, on Colorado’s Western Slope, towns are strung out along the confluence of two rive … more →
War as Experience: "In some ways, the war years were the best of my life."
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wrote 3 months ago: Trying to understand the experience of the soldier at war is not easy for those who have never been … more →
Die Krallen des Löwen Unterwegs mit einem afrikanischen Krieger
wrote 3 months ago: Read More … Die Krallen des Löwen Unterwegs mit einem afrikanischen Krieger By Alexandra Fulle … more →
A Great Family Tale Disguised as an “Awful” Book
wrote 4 months ago: Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller 4 Stars I’m a big fan of Alexandra … more →
All That's Left
wrote 4 months ago: Sometimes, I have poems, and sometimes I don’t. This week, I didn’t. I sat at the desk t … more →
"Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood" by Alexandra Fuller
wrote 4 months ago: “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood” by Alexandra Full … more →
life
wrote 4 months ago: This is not a full circle. It’s Life carrying on. It’s the next breath we all take. It … more →
A band in your bookshop?
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wrote 6 months ago: Photo by Owen Benson The Bookshop Band is a quirky British band who write songs about books w … more →
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller
wrote 6 months ago: In the novel “Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness” the author Alexandra Fuller takes us on … more →
The Power of the Adjective
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wrote 6 months ago: Maybe it’s the grammar teacher in me that can appreciate a well-placed adjective and the omission of … more →
Listening to I Forget What
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wrote 6 months ago: The title alone, Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, is sufficient to lure the imaginatio … more →
Synchroni-city, bookish
wrote 7 months ago: What do you think? Perhaps it’s all a matter of whether one is a noticing sort of person or not? I … more →
Coach's Corner: How Authors Can Be More “Book Club-Friendly”
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wrote 8 months ago: Dear Book Club Cheerleader: I just published my latest novel, The Best Book Ever, and I was wonderin … more →
The PRIME Book Meets Alexandra Fuller
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wrote 8 months ago: “I don’t think any of us can sit in judgment of another human being. We’re incomplete cr … more →
Review: Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller
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wrote 8 months ago: Title: Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness Author: Fuller, Alexandra Length: 256 pages Gen … more →
Mongols, the Middle Ages and white Africans - book reviews
wrote 9 months ago: We were spared the wrath of the typhoons last week here in the north of Taiwan, but this week might … more →
Amurph11's CBR4 Review #23, Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller
wrote 9 months ago: “You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving.” -Alexandr … more →
books that sound better than their titles
wrote 9 months ago: When choosing a book at the library or the store, it’s difficult not to want to pass up books … more →
