Sable Lit Reviews is a website focusing on “all things multicultural in lit, media and history. A review of It’s Not Your Mother’s Bridge Club posted today with five of five “Sable Seals.” Here is the review: In Michele Van Ort Cozzens’ It’s Not Your Mother’s Bridge Club, we meet eight amazing women who live, […]
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Karen was here today. She doesn’t like to be called “neighbor” so I’ll call her my friend who lives nearby. Karen has such big eyes, you can get lost in them. She’s soft-spoken and wise, polite and at the same time, not afraid to let her freak flag fly. Today, however, she was as pulled
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Amish quilters are known to occasionally slip a stitch in their beautiful patchwork creations, citing “only God is perfect.” As I made this necklace it occurred to me that it was simply too pretty. So I decided to slip a stitch–so-to-speak–by stringing a barely detectable design alteration. Hard to call it a “flaw.” The design
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Primary emotion at this moment: Frustration. Wait let me express it by yelling: FRUSTRATION! I gave up the control reins of my websites a couple years ago, hiring an amiable and brilliant designer and photographer, fluent in html. It wasn’t cheap, but it was worth it. Let me yell the key word: WAS. As countless
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No Angel: My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels by Jay Dobyns My review A Raw, Real and Riveting Memoir Captivating from the first page, No Angel thrusts the reader into the inner world of the outlaw motorcycle gang, the Hells Angels. This is the story of an obsessed man,
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The Tucson Gem Show folded its tents late last week. Vendors with everything from precious gems to barrels full of rocks have moved on to other corners of the globe, and have left we designers to our shining palettes. At the Gem Mall on its final day, I found a table full of VERY bright
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My husband is from Chicago. Evanston, actually, and when he first showed me around his childhood home, he felt the need to take me to all his “haunts.” Each of them was about food. There was Sarkis, the Greek greasy spoon, where Mr. Sarkis himself sweat all over me with an overzealous introduction. I think
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When I give my name, Michele, over the phone and am subsequently asked, “one L or two?” I immediately know the inquirer has a Michele (or a Michelle) in his or her life. This question has come far more frequently in the last several years. The name has grown in popularity. The rest of the
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The Gem Show is SLOW. It’s the response we heard today from each vendor when asked, “how’s it going this year?” Most cited as much as a 50% drop in sales, but one of my regular vendors said his sales were only down 10%. Unfortunately, his prices doubled and I ended up spending twice as
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