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Day 8 of the #wintergames photo challenge - Wildlife
I‘m sharing some pictures of animals that showed up in my backyard near the bird feeders.
Photo 1 - This is a Cooper‘s Hawk. This picture is from the day before Thanksgiving this year. My birds saw him and they all flew off.
Photos 2,3 & 4 - These are Black Bellied Whistling Ducks. These pictures are from August.
#GhostsOfXmas
pickThe story is absurd, dialogues are contrived, the three characters and their actions unconvincing, unrealistic. And yet! What a book! Read it in one sitting. Fantastic. I had never heard of this author before, found the book when I was browsing in the library, but will read more by Richard Ford.
pickI don't quite know what I liked about this book. The plot is nothing groundbreaking: it's poverty, marital problems, and a 16-year-old boy caught up in it all. Maybe I liked that it felt real without any melodrama.
Richard Ford writes the most authentic first person narrators and really powerful prose. It's a short book, which is good because you wouldn't want to go on reading this forever. But for these 190 pages or so, I was amazed.
This colophon always makes me think, “That‘s a sister to the Atkins ice cream logo.”
Google it if you want to tell me l‘m wrong.
pick#signedsunday
Signed at the first Humber College Writers Workshop. I was lucky to learn from and interact with writers like Atwood, DM Thomas, Peter Carey, Marianne Wiggins, and Richard Ford. I had an amusing, interesting conversation with Richard Ford about shad fishing on the Connecticut River....
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