Winters on the prairie were brutal for the early pioneers. During snowstorms a person could get lost just walking from the house to the barn and back again. In order to protect themselves homesteaders planted trees and shrubs of various types around their homes and out buildings so they would form natural wind breaks as they matured. Read Full Article
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I assigned all those who entered the Matrimony giveaway a number and ran it through the randomizer and Random.org to ensure the complete and total randomness of the drawing, and so the personally autographed copy of Joshua Henkin’s novel Matrimony will be sent by the author himself to…
Unbearable Banishment!
If you could email me your mailing address, I will get that to Josh right away.
An unexpected side effect of this giveaway included another author contacting me about a giveaway! More details on this will be available after the New Year, but isn’t that exciting? I am liking this giving away of books, so much that I think I will give away some of the ARC’s I am collecting. I have three book reviews coming up in January and will have copies plus two more for February. If you like free books, do be on the look-out for opportunities in the next couple months.
With all the counting down that happens this time of year, perhaps we should do a bit ourselves?
But what is the question? Books? Movies. Music? World Events? Fashion?
And should we do best of show or worst ever?
Here is you challenge then. Create a countdown list in the comments. Minimum of 5 but maxing out at ten. Don’t limit yourself. Any topic. Here’s mine:
Top Five Setbacks for Women
(and by extension the other gender)
in 2008
1) Sarah Palin being the most qualified woman McCain could find to run with him.
2) The media’s sexist treatment of Hillary Clinton. (When cankles and pantsuits are debated seriously by pundits, we might as well start lobbying for our own Liberia.)
3) The Bush Administrations rush to implement protection for health care workers tender consciences (here’s hoping you never need a blood transfusion and your doctor is a Jehovah’s Witness).
4) Oprah is fat again. (If a billionaire kingmaker like Winfrey can’t elude the superficial demons of American culture, the rest of us are doomed.)
5) Caroline Kennedy makes the cut for possibly replacing Clinton in the Senate. (A setback? Surely I jest? Nope, the media is giddy with the idea Kennedy can be compensated for her losses with a Senate seat because being a Harvard lawyer with constitutional credentials out the ying-yang and years of experience running mega charities don’t count as much as having been semi-orphaned and photogenic as a girl-child.)
Can’t wait to read yours.
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