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VARIATIONS ON A THEME: A Round-Up of Advice, from Sam Abell to William Butler Yeats

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Your theme is what your story is really about. In this Career Authors Round-Up, you'll discover what these terrific writers past and present have to say about theme.
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VARIATIONS ON A THEME: A Round-Up of Advice, from Sam Abell to William Butler Yeats • Career Authors

Your theme is what your story is really about. In this Career Authors Round-Up, you'll discover what these terrific writers past and present have to say about theme.

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Book Notification Mar 4

The March celebrity book club picks are here!

Featuring ✨

Good Housekeeping & Read with Jenna ⬇️
Wait For me by #AmyJoBurns

Katie Couric Book Club ⬇️
More Than Enough by #AnnaQuindlen

Read them all at the 🔗 link in the comments (updated regularly)
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Book Notification Feb 24

It's #BigReleaseTuesday and more than 250 #newbooks are being released today! 📚

Highlights ✨

Body Refinement in a Beast Tamer's World 1 by #SethRing
( #BodyRefinementinaBeastTamersWorldSeries)
Kin by #TayariJones
More Than Enough by #AnnaQuindlen

🔗 Link in comments #newreleases #bookstodon

WIST Quotations Dec 21

A quotation from Anna Quindlen

If being a parent consists often of passing along chunks of ourselves to unwitting — often unwilling — recipients, then books are, for me, one of the simplest and most sure-fire ways of doing that. I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen (b. 1953) American journalist, novelist
Article (1991-08-07), “Public & Private: Enough Bookshelves,” New York Times

More about this quote: wist.info/quindlen-anna/10605/

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Article (1991-08-07), "Public & Private: Enough Bookshelves," New York Times - Quindlen, Anna | WIST Quotations

If being a parent consists often of passing along chunks of ourselves to unwitting -- often unwilling -- recipients, then books are, for me, one of the simplest and most sure-fire ways of doing that. I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of…

WIST Quotations

Wisdom in Space Feb 8, 2025

[Excessive testing teaches students] that learning is a joyless succession of hoops through which they must jump, rather than a way of understanding and mastering the world. Every question has one right answer; the measure of a person is a number. Being insightful, or creative, or heaven forfend, counterintuitive counts for nothing.
-- Anna Quindlen (Newsweek June 2005)

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Wisdom in Space Dec 10, 2023

[Excessive testing teaches students] that learning is a joyless succession of hoops through which they must jump, rather than a way of understanding and mastering the world. Every question has one right answer; the measure of a person is a number. Being insightful, or creative, or heaven forfend, counterintuitive counts for nothing.
-- Anna Quindlen (Newsweek June 2005)

⬆ #Quotes #AnnaQuindlen #Education #StandardizedTesting

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #PitcherPlants #Flowers #Florida