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Monthly Archives: February 2011

News: Bound Like Grass: A Montana Memoir Masterpiece

February 28, 2011

“McLaughlin writes with the blazing clarity of prairie sun on a cloudless day. She uses writing techniques like a master novelist to turn what might seem the most ordinary of lives into a compelling story.”

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News: Memoir About Growing Up on High Plains Wins 2010 Montana Book Award

February 27, 2011

Bound Like Grass: A Memoir from the Western High Plains is an honest, beautifully written memoir of McLaughlin’s own and her family’s struggle to survive on their isolated wheat and cattle farm.

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A Tale: Two Pictures and 1300 Words — Walter Trumbull, 1870

February 25, 2011

‘The waters … plunged downward, breaking into myriads of drops; each drop, like a lens, gathering prismatic tints from the shining sun, and flashing like diamonds of the purest brilliancy.

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A Tale: Rudyard Kipling Goes Fishing With Yankee Jim — 1889

February 22, 2011

” It seemed to me … that I might hold my own with the old-timer if I judiciously painted up a few lies gathered in the course of my wanderings. Yankee Jim saw every one of my tales and went fifty better.

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News: A Peak Experience — A Whole Day With Book Lovers and Great Books

February 21, 2011

And in the evening—dinner in the wine cellar of Chico five-star restaurant. Great food and great conversation with avid readers who love books. Life just doesn’t get any better!

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An Event: Seeing My Name in Lights

February 18, 2011

As I walked up the sidewalk last night carrying my laptop and a box of books, I saw it: My …

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An Event: Final Touches for My Fine Arts Presentation

February 15, 2011

I’ve been working hard to put the final touches on my presentation Thursday to the President’s Fine Arts Series of …

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A Tale: Hour Spring, A Geyser by Another Name — c. 1834

February 8, 2011

“it begins to boil and bubble violently and the water commences raising and shooting upwards until the column arises to the height of sixty feet.”

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Paul Schullery Comments on the General’s Fishing Tackle

February 1, 2011

“No doubt [Strong's] relatively light tackle, which included a silkworm gut leader that may not have been strong enough to horse a big fish in heavy water, had an effect on his handling of this fish.

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