"Maybe the creation of lists echoes some distant poetic impulse, the chanting of the names of objects: sun moon stars me you. Perhaps, as in that earliest time, such a callling of things empowers us by momentarily allowing us to order our surrounding world, verbally and symbolically putting everything into a sequence and an arrangement we desire, if only for that instant." - Robert E. Belknap
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My Favorite Novels
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Travels with Charlie by John Steinbeck
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towels
A Romance of Two Worlds by Marie Corelli
Eleni by Nicholas Gage
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
A Time to Kill by John Grisham
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Grams
Hellhound on his Trail by Hampton Sides
The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt by Andrea Robots
Three Junes by Julia Glass
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Martian by Andy Weir
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
1984 by George Orwell
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
Narcissus and Goldmund by Herman Hesse
Zorba the Greek by Niikos Kazantzakis
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
Loser by Jerry Spinelli
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Velvet Room by Zilpha Snyder Keatley
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Things I Enjoy Doing!
1. Afternoon Tea with friends.
2. Baking sourdough bread.
3. Riding a bike through the countryside.
4. Going to live performing arts: music, dance, theatre.
5. Reading good books.
6. Films: dramas, romantic comedies, documentaries, musicals
7. Dining out with friends.
8. Making lists.
9. Collecting miniature things.
10. Writing.
11. Teaching reaching, writing, and history.
12. Singing.
13. Driving.
14. Seeing new places near and far.
15. Photography.
16. Family gatherings.
17. Learning new things, aha moments.
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What brought you pleasure or joy today?
1. A cup of lobster bisque.
2. Reading a very clever, well-written sentence in a novel.
3. Getting a hand written letter in the regular mail.
4. Going to Wegman’s; buying exotic tropical fruit.
5. Sitting at the pool BBQ with my son and his friends at Penn State.
6. Walking on the floors of my house after IRobot has cleaned.
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Classics to Read
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Fahreinheit 51 by Ray Bradbury
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien
1984 by George Orwell
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinback
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Charlotte's Webb by E.B. White
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Emma by Jane Austen
The Odyssey by Homer
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
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Movies Seen in 2024 - 2025
A Complete Unknown (2024) ****
A Real Pain (2024) ****
Anora (2024) **
Babette's Feast (1987) *****
Behind the Red Door (2003) ***
Black Bag (2025) ****
Blitz (2024) ***
Blue Jasmine (2013) *****
Bombshell (2019) ***
Castaway (2000) *****
Conclave (2024) ****
Dolce Villa (2025) ***
Emilia Perez (2024) ****
Eye for an Eye (1996) ***
Forgotten Love (2023) ****
Inside Out 2 (2024) ****
Lee (2023) ****
Maria (2024) ***
No Direction Home (2005) ****
Official Secrets (2019) ****
The Audrey Hepburn Story (2000) ***
The Brutalist (2024) ****
The Day After Tomorrow (2004) ****
The Dressmaker (2015) ****
The Piano Lesson (2024) ***
The Miracle Worker (1962) *****
The Storied Life of A.J. Fickry (2022) ****
The Substance (2024) **
The War Zone (1999) *
Wicked (2024) ****
Widow Cliquot (2023) ***
Series Seen 2024 - 2025
Before S1. (ATV) ****
Disclaimer S1 (ATV) ****
Matlock S1 (CBS) ****
Tess of the D'urbervilles S1 (BB) ****
Bear S4 (Hulu) *****
All Creatures Great and Small S5 (PBS) *****
Vienna Blood S4 (BB) ****
Broadchurch S3. (BB) ***
Somebody Somewhere S3. (Max) ***
Hacks S4 (Max) ****
The Diplomat S2 (Netflix) ***
Lincoln Lawyer S3 (Netflix) ****
Father Brown S12 (BB) ****
Shrinking S3 (ATV) ****
Vera S14 (BB) *****
Shetland S9 (BB) ****
Reacher S3 ****
Night Agent
The West Wing S1-7 (MAX) *****
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Favorite Things In Nature
The smell of earth.
How the heat of the day can drop 10-20 degrees when you walk into the forest.
The moment Earth turns to reveal the sun over the horizon.
A very large full moon so bright it lights up the night.
Not a light in sight so that you see a massive star coverage in the night sky.
Color combinations of flowers, especially fuchsia and orange.
The smell of honeysuckle.
A bird bathing with the sun shining on it.
The trickle of a mountain stream.
That humble feeling walking next to the ocean.
An ancient Silver Beech tree standing alone in all it's glory.
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BEST BOOKS 2023
The 272
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama
A Living Remedy
Above Ground
Absolution
After Sappho
After the Funeral
All Souls
All the Sinners Bleed
Anansi's Gold
August Blue
The Bee Sting
Big Swiss
Biography of X
Birnam Wood
Blackouts
Chrome Valley
The Covenant of Water
Crook Manifesto
The Deadline
Desertion
Doppelganger
Dyscalculia
The End of Drum-Time
Fair Play
Family Lore
Fire Weather
From From
The Future
Ghost Music
The Good Life
The Great Reclamation
The Great White Bard
Greek Lessons
The Guest
The Half Known Life
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
Hello Beautiful
The Hive and the Honey
Holding Pattern
Holler, Child
How Not to Kill Yourself
How to Say Babylon
I Am Still With You
I Do Everything I'm Told
I Have Some Questions For You
The Iliad
I Love Russia
Kairos
King: A Life
Let Us Descend
Let's Go Let's Go Let's Go
Liliana’s Invincible Summer
Lone Women
The Male Gazed
Master Slave Husband Wife
Mobility
Mott Street
My Name Is Barbra
None of the Above
North Woods
Nothing Special
Our Migrant Souls
Our Share of Night
Owner of a Lonely Heart
Pageboy
Pineapple Street
The Postcard
Poverty, by America
The Rachel Incident
Red Memory
Ripe
River Sing Me Home
Some People Need Killing
Spare
The Talk
Temple Folk
Terrace Story
Thin Skin
This Other Eden
The Three of Us
Thunderclap
To Free the Captives
Tom Lake
Tremor
The Vaster Wilds
The Vegan
Vengeance Is Mine
Victory City
The Wager
Waiting to Be Arrested at Night
Wandering Souls
What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
When Crack Was King
The Wren, the Wren
Y/N
Yellowface
You Could Make This Place Beautiful
The Young Man
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Movies
Hi, Barbie.
Barbie
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Goncharov
Nimona
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Red, White, and Royal Blue
Lord of the Rings -3
Black Panther +24
The Addams Family
The Super Mario Bros. Movie -4
Knives Out
Puss In Boots: The Last Wish
Oppenheimer
The Hunger Games
Avatar: The Way of Water
Guardians of the Galaxy
Shrek
The Little Mermaid +15
Scream -1
Top Gun: Maverick -1
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Everything Everywhere All At Once +7
Saw +14
Twilight -13
Wendell & Wild
Howl’s Moving Castle -6
The Hobbit -3
Five Nights at Freddy’s
Enola Holmes
My Policeman
Deadpool -8
How to Train Your Dragon +12
Beauty and the Beast +16
Avatar
Scream VI
Bottoms
Mean Girls +6
Megamind -4
Metalocalypse: Army of the Doomstar
Spirited Away -10
The Batman -38
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Venom -34
Les Misérables
Encanto -44
Iron Lung
Coraline
The Thing
John Wick
Strange Way of Life
Blue Beetle
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Legally Blonde
Frozen -14
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Ghosted
American Psycho -7
Princess Mononoke
Dune -49
The Princess Bride
Teen Wolf: The Movie
Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith -21
Pacific Rim
Renfield
Shrek 2
Saw X
The Old Guard -29
Nope -47
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
Night at the Museum
Soul -26
The Mummy
The Nightmare Before Christmas
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls
Hellraiser
The Lost Boys
The Marvels
Emesis Blue
The Shape of Water
The Menu
My Neighbor Totoro
Shazam -40
Sonic the Hedgehog -66
Pirates of the Caribbean -48
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Elemental
Lilo & Stitch
Fight Club
The Dark Knight
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
The Princess Diaries
The Incredibles
Halloween Ends
The Lorax
10 Things I Hate About You
Heathers
Kung Fu Panda
The Devil Wears Prada
Rise of the Guardians
Birds of Prey
The number in italics indicates how many spots a title moved up or down from the previous year. Bolded titles weren’t on the list last year.
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Sands Ring Tea Finger Food Menu (May, 2023)
1. Bottled Iced tea - sweetened (15-18) On ice.
2. Bottled iced tea - unsweetened (15-18) On ice
3. Bottled water (12)
4. Scones
5. Finger Sandwiches (some with meat, some without meat)
6. Mini Tarts
7. Lemon Bars
8. Mini eclairs and mini cream puffs
9. Mixed berries: strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries
10. Savory quiche
11. Petit Fours (little cakes)
12. Mini caprese salad bites
13. Pasta Salad
14. Small platers, forks (if necessary), clear drink cups.
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Sad plot ideas besides killing characters
Here are 14 sad plot ideas that don’t require character deaths
1. Having to give up an item of huge emotional importance 2. A leader being abandoned by their own people
3. Redemption arc that comes just a little too late 4. Making a mistake that’s too big to be forgiven for
5. Unrequited love with a childhood best friend 6. Betrayal by a sibling, parent or child
7. Realizing who they truly love when it’s too late 8. Not being believed by those closest to them when it really matters
9. A character who’s completely at peace with their tragic destiny 10. Relapsing on an addiction after doing so well
11. Making an honest mistake that leads to horrible consequences and endangers people they love 12. Trying so hard time and time again, and still not achieving any results
13. Having to watch a friend or family get tortured without being able to stop it 14. Realizing someone they love is in danger, but they’re the ones who sent them into it
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WEBSITES FOR WRITERS {masterpost}
E.A. Deverell - FREE worksheets (characters, world building, narrator, etc.) and paid courses;
Hiveword - Helps to research any topic to write about (has other resources, too);
BetaBooks - Share your draft with your beta reader (can be more than one), and see where they stopped reading, their comments, etc.;
Charlotte Dillon - Research links;
Writing realistic injuries - The title is pretty self-explanatory: while writing about an injury, take a look at this useful website;
One Stop for Writers - You guys... this website has literally everything we need: a) Description thesaurus collection, b) Character builder, c) Story maps, d) Scene maps & timelines, e) World building surveys, f) Worksheets, f) Tutorials, and much more! Although it has a paid plan ($90/year | $50/6 months | $9/month), you can still get a 2-week FREE trial;
One Stop for Writers Roadmap - It has many tips for you, divided into three different topics: a) How to plan a story, b) How to write a story, c) How to revise a story. The best thing about this? It's FREE!
Story Structure Database - The Story Structure Database is an archive of books and movies, recording all their major plot points;
National Centre for Writing - FREE worksheets and writing courses. Has also paid courses;
Penguin Random House - Has some writing contests and great opportunities;
Crime Reads - Get inspired before writing a crime scene;
The Creative Academy for Writers - "Writers helping writers along every step of the path to publication." It's FREE and has ZOOM writing rooms;
Reedsy - "A trusted place to learn how to successfully publish your book" It has many tips, and tools (generators), contests, prompts lists, etc. FREE;
QueryTracker - Find agents for your books (personally, I've never used this before, but I thought I should feature it here);
Pacemaker - Track your goals (example: Write 50K words - then, everytime you write, you track the number of the words, and it will make a graphic for you with your progress). It's FREE but has a paid plan;
Save the Cat! - The blog of the most known storytelling method. You can find posts, sheets, a software (student discount - 70%), and other things;
I hope this is helpful for you!
(Also, check my blog if you want to!)
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