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Thursday, August 25, 2011 1:21:28 PM
Anne Broyles wrote a blog post titled Let's Hear It For the WOMEN!!!!:
Anne said, "Lucky me! I grew up with strong female role models in my mother, her sister, and both grandmothers. I also had a slew of great-aunts, each formidable in her own way. From the time I was young, my mother told me I could do anything, and she taught me..." more
Sunday, August 21, 2011 8:21:21 PM
Anne Broyles wrote a blog post titled When bookstores close...:
Anne said, "A sad sight: the closing of the huge Downtown Crossing Borders in Boston."
Thursday, August 4, 2011 1:25:38 PM
Anne Broyles wrote a blog post titled A Histotry Geek's Dream:
Anne said, "At the New Deal Festival with Eleanor Roosevelt, AKA Patty Cooper Years ago I wrote a picture book about the community built in Arthurdale, West Virginia by Eleanor Roosevelt, her friends, and the U.S. Government as part of the New Deal...." more
Thursday, June 23, 2011 7:58:28 PM
Anne Broyles wrote a blog post titled What was it like to be "The Duchess?":
Anne said, "Whenever I read a book or see a film set in an historical time, I invariably look up more details on the internet. So recently, when I checked "The Duchess" of of the library and watched Kiera Knightley's nuanced performance of..." more
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 12:03:04 PM
Anne Broyles wrote a blog post titled Revising, not Blogging:
Anne said, "In case anyone thinks I have disappeared from the face of the earth, the truth is two-fold: I have been fortunate enough to be traveling to interesting places around the world (England and Spain recently; Thailand, Singapore and Bhutan next)..." more
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 7:56:49 PM
Anne Broyles wrote a blog post titled A Gifted Storyteller and Wordsmith's Work:
Anne said, "Like most writers, I read constantly, voraciously, inhaling books the way I scarfed down bags of Red Vines when I was a kid. I briefly savor the last pages of one book, ready to move on to the next offering on my shelf. Some books grab me so that I..." more
Saturday, January 15, 2011 7:03:17 PM
Anne Broyles wrote a blog post titled Can Compassion Win Out??:
Anne said, "Last night, I heard Karen Armstrong, author of twenty-three books on world religions, speak in a bookstore-sponsored event. When Armstrong won the $100,000 TED Prize in 2008, she used it to establish the Charter of Compassion, a document and..." more
Sunday, January 9, 2011 12:33:43 PM
Anne Broyles wrote a blog post titled Angry, Sad, Daring to be Hopeful:
Anne said, "I've been very affected by the senseless shooting of Gabby Giffords and others yesterday in Tucson, my home town. My brother has known Gabby since she was in high school and was friends with one of his students. She has been a guest in my brother ..." more
Thursday, December 9, 2010 5:01:17 PM
Anne Broyles wrote a blog post titled Book Lust:
Anne said, "How far would you go to own a book that was important to you?Have you ever coveted another person’s library? Do you have a personal list of books you absolutely must have in your possession? Have you ever felt book lust? I’ve..." more
Thursday, December 2, 2010 9:25:55 PM
Anne Broyles wrote a blog post titled Cross-training the Brain:
Anne said, "Athletes often cross-train to improve overall performance. Skiers do yoga; bikers swim; marathoners use the rowing machine. Cross-training conditions different muscle groups and keeps an athlete focused and working hard with (some..." more
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 10:18:15 AM
Anne Broyles wrote a blog post titled Why do you read?:
Anne said, "The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. You may have also received this list on Facebook or through email. I took a few minutes to follow their directions: ( Bold those books you've read in their entirety...." more
Thursday, November 11, 2010 8:45:06 AM
Anne Broyles wrote a blog post titled Gladden the dejected:
Anne said, "I am currently reading a stunning book by David Grossman, one of Israel's most prominent writers, who was awarded the German Book Trade's Peace Prize for 2010. I have not quite finished TO THE END OF THE LAND, the novel he wrote after his son..." more
Wednesday, October 27, 2010 8:47:25 PM
Anne Broyles wrote a blog post titled Flannery O'Connor: a Savannah Child:
Anne said, "While in Savannah, Georgia last weekend, I visited Flannery O'Connor's childhood home. Here are some photographic highlights of the place Mary Flannery (she dropped the Mary because in her Catholic neighborhood and school, there were too many..." more
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 12:45:59 PM
Anne Broyles wrote a blog post titled Library of the Early Mind:
Anne said, "Last night I saw the premiere of a new film that celebrates the world of children's literature. "Library of the Early Mind: a grown-up look at the art of children's literature" was produced as a labor of love, pared down from forty-five..." more
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 9:59:39 PM
Anne Broyles wrote a blog post titled Make Way for Ducklings!:
Anne said, "I’d planned for the moment, but wasn’t sure it would happen the way I anticipated. Still, I bought MAKE WAY FOR DUCKLINGS and had 22-month-old Olivia’s mom read it with Spanish translation on the day before we went..." more
Friday, August 20, 2010 9:08:23 AM
Anne Broyles wrote a blog post titled The Books that Never Let Us Go:
Anne said, "Have you ever been haunted by characters, settings or plots that come alive on the page, grab you by the throat, and imprint deep into your brain? There are certain books that will always be part of me, and the most addicting novels often keep me up..." more
Sunday, August 1, 2010 2:42:55 PM
Anne Broyles wrote a blog post titled Will the real Che please stand up?:
Anne said, "Can anyone be remembered accurately? Depending on who tells the story, a public figure like Che Guevera, for instance, can be a saint, hero, evil revolutionary, or somewhere in between. He was a doctor and saved lives. He was a fighter and killed..." more
Sunday, July 25, 2010 9:45:18 PM
Anne Broyles wrote a blog post titled Don't have Draggle pick his teeth:
Anne said, "Writers look crazy to the rest of the world. First, we live inside our heads much of the time. Our characters talk to us, and we listen. We visualize things that don't exist and hear things no one else can hear. We may spend hours searching for the..." more
Sunday, July 18, 2010 12:41:30 PM
Anne Broyles wrote a blog post titled Roxbury, Past and Present:
Anne said, "*What do Frederick Douglass, Marcus Garvey, William Lloyd Garrison, Louis Farrakhon, Martin Luther King, Jr., the Pullman Porters, Booker T. Washington, Frederick Law Olmsted, Melnea Cass, Harriet Tubman and Malcolm X have in common? They all..." more
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 12:55:47 PM
Anne Broyles wrote a blog post titled Almost...but Not Quite:
Anne said, "I recently read Tanya Lee Stone's excellent book, Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream. This fascinating history not only tells of the difficulties faced by women who aspired to join NASA's space program, but provides the social and..." more
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 8:44:01 PM
Anne Broyles wrote a blog post titled The Rummikub dilemma:
Anne said, "The idea stage of writing is wild and crazy and full of possibility. Research is exciting detective work. The writing stage is focused, with the writer letting the story evolve organically. Subsequent drafts demand different skills and a new set of..." more
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 8:15:08 PM
Anne Broyles wrote a blog post titled Still Learning After All These Years:
Anne said, "All right, class. Who can define THEME? In high school and college creative writing classes, I had no trouble with definitions of theme. When I write, however, I find myself concentrating more on character and plot in the first drafts. Theme comes..." more
Friday, May 14, 2010 10:31:22 AM
Anne Broyles wrote a blog post titled Dreaming of Ancient Peoples:
Anne said, "I have long been fascinated with the ancient peoples of North and South America. I grew up in the Southwest, where there are many ancient dwellings. Mesa Verde, Montezuma’s Castle, Montezuma’s Well, Walnut Canyon, Casa Grande, Tuzigoot,..." more
Monday, May 3, 2010 9:48:35 PM
Anne Broyles wrote a blog post titled Second Annual Hudson Children's Book Festival:
Anne said, "Among the excellent book festivals scattered across the United States, the Hudson's Children's Book Festival stands out. The Second Annual Hudson Children's Book Festival attracted 100 authors and illustrators and was attended by a steady flow of..." more
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 8:34:54 PM
Anne Broyles wrote a blog post titled A Way with Words:
Anne said, "Writing can be a solitary profession, which is why I am so grateful for my two critique groups and other author friends who support me personally and professionally. Through almost twenty-five years I have worked on a young adult historical novel..." more