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November 10, 2023

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  New Picture Book from Provision House  Engages Critical Thinking Skills Elves in the Böökhouse is a puzzle of a children’s picture book.....
November 08, 2021

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  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Edmonds, Washington November 8, 2021 Dog Hero Story Becomes  Novel in Verse Fast-Paced Epic Poem Tells Story of Cros...
September 17, 2016

What He Did in the War (World War II)

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Ryan Petty The other day I stopped at a Tacoma, Washington, McDonalds (the one on W 6th) for breakfast.  There were several old me...
March 17, 2016

Quotation from J. K. Rowling - From Her Harvard Commencement Speech, Published as a Book Titled VERY GOOD LIVES

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Ryan Petty There’s been a spate of commencement addresses, repackaged and sold as hardcover gift books.  Not that there’s anything wro...
March 14, 2016

George Orwell on the Losses We Suffer from Pretentious, Unexamined Phrasing

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Ryan Petty George Orwell’s posthumous collection of essays, WHY I WRITE , is a marvel, published by Penguin Books in its Great Ideas s...
December 14, 2015

Book Review: Diamonds Discovered in BIG MAGIC: Creative Living Beyond Fear... by Elizabeth Gilbert

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New book by the author of Eat, Pray, Love is getting lots of attention. I didn’t read it so much for the grand theory of creativity (whi...
November 16, 2015

Words to Think and Write By... from Author Ursula K. LeGuin

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Ryan Petty Author-itative Quotations 1 & 2 I particularly like these passages found in the essay, “A Matter of Trust,” from the bo...
November 08, 2015

Kent Haruf - a Favorite Author

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By Ryan petty Our Souls at Night , his final book I stood in a line at our public library for several months waiting to read this boo...
October 16, 2015

Regarding the Poet Walace Stevens

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"One of the sanctions of the writer is that he is doing something that he needs to do." Thus spoke Walace Stevens, who crafted...
October 02, 2015

Self-Publishing Triumph - “The Martian” by Andy Weir... Movie Opens Today

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Big Day for Sci-Fi Lovers, Self-Publishers, Friends, Family & Fans   A lone astronaut is believed dead and left stranded on Mars.... ...