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The story is enough.: June 2015

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The story is enough. The story is enough - telling truth and creating connection. The story is enough. Monday, June 29, 2015. Reading Comprehension: Text No. 1" by Alejandro Zambra. This story can be found in the July 6, 2015 issue of The New Yorker magazine. My comments can also be found on The Mookse and the Gripes. Last Line: "You all weren't educated; you were trained.". Something is missing here for me on this one. At this point in my life? I was not reading a story here. Not every writing by a well...

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The story is enough.: "Little Man" by Michael Cunningham

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The story is enough. The story is enough - telling truth and creating connection. The story is enough. Tuesday, August 4, 2015. Little Man" by Michael Cunningham. This story can be found in the August 10, 2015 issue of The New Yorker Magazine. First Line: "What if you had a child? Last Line: "Each would be stranded, laid flat, abandoned, bereft.". What a fun twist on the dark and brooding Rumpelstiltskin! The second person point-of-view brings me back to the Choose Your Own Adventure. How did the miller&...

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The story is enough.: August 2015

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The story is enough. The story is enough - telling truth and creating connection. The story is enough. Monday, August 31, 2015. Authors thank reviewers: Danielle McLaughlin. The review can be read here. Labels: All in the Act of Falling. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The story is enough. Everything I've learned came from a story. The story tells Truth - in digestible pieces. The story creates Connection – to each other, to our world, to ourselves. The story is enough. The story is enough. Poem of the Week.

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The story is enough.: July 2015

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The story is enough. The story is enough - telling truth and creating connection. The story is enough. Wednesday, July 29, 2015. Five Arrows" by Heinz Insu Fenkl. This story can be found in the August 3, 2015 issue of The New Yorker. First Line: "Yongsu and I launched the flat-bottomed boat from a muddy part of the river I didn't recognize.". There is a part of me that can intellectually appreciate folklore. But there is also a part of me that wonders, “Yeah, so? Where’s the real story? The narrator has ...

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The story is enough.: March 2015

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The story is enough. The story is enough - telling truth and creating connection. The story is enough. Monday, March 30, 2015. Musa" by Kamel Daoud. This story can be read here. In The New Yorker. First Line: "Musa was my older brother.". It was the nineteen-fifties; the Frenchwomen wore short, flowered dresses, and the sun bit at their breasts.". Kamel Daoud wrote a novel, a "response" to Albert Camus's The Stranger. She punished him for resisting death and the grief she chose: martyrdom. It was beautif...

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The story is enough.: May 2015

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The story is enough. The story is enough - telling truth and creating connection. The story is enough. Tuesday, May 26, 2015. The Freezer Chest" by Dorthe Nors. This story can be found in the May 25, 2015 issue. Of The New Yorker. Last Line: "'Shame on you,' she said, and I'd like to know if she ever did anything about it, the incest.". I am delayed in posting my review of this story as life made other demands, but I did comment on it on The Mookse and the Gripes. Here's a sampling of my thoughts:. 8230;...

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The story is enough.: Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

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The story is enough. The story is enough - telling truth and creating connection. The story is enough. Tuesday, August 4, 2015. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee. Go Set A Watchman. New York: Harper Collins. 2015. 8220;I mean I grew up right here in your house, and I never knew what was in your mind.”. To Kill A Mockingbird. Was assigned reading when I was in high school. I didn’t enjoy it. Part of that, I am sure, was the intensity with which themes were thrust down our throats. I knew the backstory.

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The story is enough.: April 2015

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The story is enough. The story is enough - telling truth and creating connection. The story is enough. Tuesday, April 28, 2015. The Apologizer" by Milan Kundera. The story can be found here. In The New Yorker, May 4, 2015. First Line: "It was the month of June, the morning sun was emerging from the clouds, and Alain was walking slowly down a Paris street.". Last Line: "Then they walked toward the museum.". Was I upset with the story? But I still struggled with the ideas. And I know that that is okay ...