Recommended Reading: Counting by 7’s

Every Wednesday I’ll share the best of what I have been reading. Old books, new books, red books, blue books. Books that have found a place on my shelves and in my heart.

Books will be grouped into three categories: Recommended, Highly Recommended, and You must read this. Add your thoughts in the comment section.

Read on!

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Title : Counting by 7s

Author : Holly Sloan Goldberg

Highly Recommended

Publisher’s Summary : Willow Chance is a twelve-year-old genius, obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, who finds it comforting to count by 7’s. It has never been easy for her to connect with anyone other than her parents, but it hasn’t kept her from leading a quietly happy life… until now.

Suddenly Willow’s world is tragically changed when her parent’s both die in a car crash, leaving her alone in a baffling world. The triumph of this book is that it is not a tragedy. This extraordinarily endearing odd, but extraordinarily endearing girl manages to push through her grief. Her journey to find a fascinatingly diverse and fully believable family is a joy and a revelation to read.  

Middle Grade Novel : 380 pages

Favorite quote : All reality, I decide, is a blender where hopes and dreams are mixed with fear and despair.

ISBN# : 978 0 8037 3855 3

Pub. Date : August 29 2013

Author’s website/blog : www.hollygoldbergsloan.com

Facebook Page : Author Holly Goldberg Sloan

Other books by the same author : I'll be There (Little Brown 2011)

Click to buy :  

Counting by 7's at Amazon, Indie Books, Barnes and Noble Books

I'll be There  at Amazon, Indie Book, Barnes and Noble Books

Mondays and the Electric Goldfish

illustration from Stinky Stern Forever

illustration from Stinky Stern Forever

Mondays on the blog, art and illustrations. New and from the vault. Today I have been thinking about names for what I hope will soon be my venture into Indie publishing. My favorite from the list is Electric Goldfish Press. The name comes from a mangling of a Dame Edith Sitwell quote I first heard a few years ago in a talk given by Cheryl Klein at Kindling Words.

I am not eccentric. It is just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish. 

Stay tuned.

Michelle's Blog schedule :

Monday - Art and Illustration

Wednesday -- Book Review

Friday -- With Walt

 

Weed or Vegetable

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Help solve the mystery!

My husband Rody planted vegetables in the front yard. The seed packets are long gone. Misplaced. Blowin in the wind. Here's what is left.

Is this a weed or a vegetable? I assumed it was a bean plant and tasted more than a few. They are very spicy. Peppery. Not bean-like at all. It doesn't curl or wrap around like a bean plant.

So what is it?

Correct answer gets not only my gratitude by a signed copy of  A KNITTER"S HOME COMPANION.

 

Art is Long

It came in a padded envelope. Yesterday. Sent from Monterey California by my friend, the writer Anne Ylvisaker. An official Daniel Smith tote bag emblazoned in the their logo is a wise motto, ART IS LONG, LIFE IS SHORT. ARS LONGA, VITA BREVIS.

My first year in graduate school, as a new member of the Iowa Printmaking Group, I helped place our large paper order with a then new company, Daniel Smith. We ordered a thousand or so sheets, and pooling our orders, we were able to get great prices.  I still have some paper from that order in my flat files.  BFK, Reeves, Aches, Fabriano. Just writing the names of those venerable paper makers brings me back to the days when I proudly wore black ink stained blue denim Daniel Smith apron.

Thank you Anne. Thank you, Daniel Smith.

 

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