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3 weeks ago | 
philtimes.com.au | Richard Ford
On 18 May, the Visayan Association (VAA Inc.), with the support of PAGASA and in coordination with PCC NSW Inc., revived a much-loved Filipino tradition with the first Santa Cruzan and Flores de Mayo at All Saints Catholic Church, Liverpool. Rev. Fr. Paul Monkerud officiated the Holy Mass. If there is one Philippine festival known for its grandeur, beauty, and elegance, it is the Flores de Mayo (Flowers of May), a cherished celebration honouring the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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1 month ago | 
fivebooks.com | Jack Kerouac |Richard Ford |Anne Tyler |John Updike
What is it about a road trip that makes it a good basis or structure for a novel? Good question. I think partly it is just an adventure story. The idea of a lot of adventure stories is that you walk out of the house, then something happens to you that changes you. The road trip is a version of that story, but it also has some difficulties as a structure for a plot.
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Feb 1, 2025 | 
celebritynetworth.com | Joyce Maynard |Stuart Woods |Jerry Jenkins |Richard Ford
What is Chuck Palahniuk's Net Worth? Chuck Palahniuk is an American novelist who has a net worth of $10 million. Chuck Palahniuk rose to fame in 1996 with his first published novel, "Fight Club." Since then, he has written such works as "Survivor," "Choke," "Lullaby," "Damned," and "Shock Induction." Palahniuk has also authored non-fiction books, graphic novels, and adult coloring books. Early Life and EducationChuck Palahniuk was born on February 21, 1962 in Pasco, Washington to Carol and Fred.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
lesen.de | Stuart Nadler |Richard Ford |Ali Smith |Christopher Isherwood
In the summer of 1938, Sonja is lifted onto a Kindertransport train that will take her from Nazi-occupied Austria to London. She leaves behind her parents, Fania and Arnold, and her baby brother Moses. She is the only member of her family to survive. In 1966 Fania is working as a massage therapist in Montreal, a country that provided her safe haven after she lost her entire family in the second world war. And yet there are strange echoes, impressions, of those she loves everwhere she turns.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
lesen.de | Taylor Jenkins Reid |Richard Ford |Haruki Murakami |Ali Smith
An epic novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program and the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Colum McCann |Margo Jefferson |Richard Ford |Marilynne Robinson
Colum McCannIrish-born novelist and nonfiction author whose books include Let the Great World Spin and Apeirogon. McCann has lived in New York for three decadesAlmost 40 years ago, I was as a young journalist travelling across the deep south of the United States. I found myself sitting outside a diner in Waycross, Georgia, jawing with some good ol’ boys. One of them was a perfect American cartoon. Baseball hat. Plaid shirt.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
edsource.org | Mallika Seshadri |Amy DiPierro |Richard Ford |Lasherica Thornton
News Brief Wednesday October 9, 2024 9:40 am A growing body of studies show that music lessons in the early years boost the brain beyond childhood, National Geographic reported. Music training benefits us in the long run, as we age, in the form of defense against memory loss, cognitive decline, and diminished language ability. You may well get those benefits even if you haven’t picked up your instrument in years.
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Aug 3, 2024 | 
irishtimes.com | Richard Ford
Here in the United States today, Democrats of all stripes are flocking to Kamala Harris like a man lost in the desert who suddenly surmounts a sand dune and sees an oasis. As he stumbles forward, the last thing he worries about is that it might be a mirage. Things are happening fast. It’s less than a hundred days until the presidential election.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
osservatoreromano.va | Richard Ford
It is in the nature of a “gospel” to pronounce — for an audience — what is unquestionably true; something a listener or reader can rely on as her or his life goes on; words that will not lead one astray, but rather savingly away from crippling doubt and even danger. This is a gospel’s “service.” Jesus’s followers are like all people — tossed this way and that by conflicting assertions of truth with which the world surrounds us.
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May 26, 2024 | 
irishtimes.com | Richard Ford
Four hundred years ago – that is, back in 2016 – the political drolerie of the moment had it that Donald Trump was the only opponent Hillary Clinton could possibly beat; though Hillary Clinton (my dismal choice) was the only opponent Donald Trump could beat. It was a two-person circular firing squad, in which the last one standing gets to be the leader of the free world. It shouldn’t end that way in this year’s presidential sweepstakes.
