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This year, I'll be doing something I've done once before, which is giving a scary book to someone for Halloween. Of course, when I did it, it wasn't exactly a scary book, since I've given copies of Big Pumpkin by Erica Silverman to Angela's younger son and to the Horace Mann Elementary School library. (Long-time readers know how much I LOOOOOOOVE ( Read more... )

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The sentence in the icon is from one of Jane Austen's letters.

On writing biographyAnd, as you know, Jane is the subject of the biography I'm writing. And so, in addition to researching all the facts and fictions of Jane's life, and in addition to reading a lot of period verse in order to be certain what I'm writing is limited to the forms used ( Read more... )