| Betty Hicks |
[Sep. 24th, 2006|04:28 am] |
I'm trying out this LiveJournal blog, and I find inserting a picture pretty easy here. This is Betty Hicks whom I met at Books & Books in Coral Gables. I read the children's book she wrote called "Busted" and found it was well-written and quite accessible to boys. It not only went into detail about soccer, but also resisted sounding like it was written by a woman by placing a lot of sentimental feelings on the boy. I've read women trying to write from a boy's point of view sounding very much like women -- noticing things a boy would never have noticed, for example, like curtains. Sometimes I wonder how some stuff ever gets published, but not this author. She has a handle on human nature.
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| 9/11 |
[Sep. 11th, 2006|09:16 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Miami | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  gloomy | ] |
Well, it's 9/11 and I am a little down. The newspapers are full of stories about it. I am making a comfort soup for dinner - mushroom and leek. This is not a day for a barbecue. |
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