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Adventures and a short story
Happy 4th of July! I hope you all have a great holiday. Yesterday I took some adventures with my family to Fort Meigs and the Toledo Museum of Art. I’ve been to Fort Niagara and Fort George in the past. Some of the demonstrators said that women had to be married to live in the …
Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway died fifty years ago today. NPR did a story on him, available online here: http://www.npr.org/2011/07/02/137540700/after-50-years-remembering-hemingways-farewell. I read some of Hemingway’s short stories in high school and did a book report on “For Whom the Bell Tolls.” If you haven’t read some of his work, you should check out the short stories “Indian Camp,” …
Reading Salinger and more
Today I read the short story “Just Before the War with the Eskimos” by J.D. Salinger. Last year I read “The Catcher in the Rye” and really loved it, especially the voice of Holden Caulfield in how he told a story. So the short story was interesting in how the small actions matter. The body language told so …
Suzanna and Writing 