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Wednesday, December 14, 2016 2:07:33 AM
Chantal Walvoord wrote a blog post titled Summerlong:
Chantal said, "In Summerlong, a girl called Lionness has uncanny abilities. She smells like meadows, enchants children and calms Orcas. She owns nothing of value and yet she lives rent-free in an older couple's garage. Abe thinks she looks like..." more
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 1:58:42 AM
Chantal Walvoord wrote a blog post titled Summerlong:
Chantal said, "Peter Beagle wrote his best known work, The Last Unicorn, while in his twenties. In Summerlong, he writes of another person with special abilities, a girl called Lionness. She smells like meadows, enchants children and calms Orcas. She owns nothing..." more
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 1:54:44 AM
Chantal Walvoord wrote a blog post titled Creative work:
Chantal said, "“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.” Mary Oliver"
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 1:54:44 AM
Chantal Walvoord wrote a blog post titled Stranger Things (TV Series):
Chantal said, "Set in the eighties, this nostalgic TV series is a horror drama starring Winona Ryder, Matthew Modine and Milly Bobby Brown. When a local boy, Will, goes missing, his middle school friends poignantly launch their own investigation. Coincidently, A..." more
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 1:48:10 AM
Chantal Walvoord wrote a blog post titled Some Kind of Happiness by Claire LeGrande:
Chantal said, "In Some Kind of Happiness a young girl, Finley Hart, who is suffering from crippling anxiety, invents her own world, Everwood. She is surprised to find that Everwood is a real place, the woods behind her Grandparents’ house. While this could have..." more
Thursday, November 17, 2016 10:06:00 AM
Chantal Walvoord wrote a blog post titled The Taxidermist's Daughter by Kate Mosse:
Chantal said, "The Taxidermist's Daughter is a novel about storytelling. Connie Gifford finds herself among storytellers. Her suitor, Mr. Woolston, asks her questions about her father and a mysterious figure, Cassie, in a critical scene. Connie says of her..." more
Thursday, November 17, 2016 10:06:00 AM
Chantal Walvoord wrote a blog post titled The Taxidermist's Daughter by Kate Mosse:
Chantal said, "The Taxidermist's Daughter is a novel about storytelling. Connie Gifford finds herself among storytellers. Her suitor, Mr. Woolston, asks her questions about her father and a mysterious figure, Cassie, in a critical scene. Connie knows that..." more
Friday, November 11, 2016 9:45:45 AM
Chantal Walvoord wrote a blog post titled The Taxidermist's Daughter by Kate Mosse:
Chantal said, "The Taxidermist's Daughter is about storytelling. Connie finds hersself among storytellers. Her suitor, Mr Woolston, asks her questions about her father and a mysterious figure, Cassie, in a critical scene. She says of her father, "He was a..." more
Wednesday, November 9, 2016 1:04:05 PM
Chantal Walvoord wrote a blog post titled Writing:
Chantal said, ""We are all storytellers and story-attentive beings. Otherwise we would never be loved or have a country or a religion. You do not need a sabbatical or a grant to write a book. Write a little bit every day"Brian Doyle in TheAmericanscholar.orgI..." more
Sunday, October 30, 2016 10:58:34 AM
Chantal Walvoord wrote a blog post titled Ex Machina:
Chantal said, "Ava looks at parts of other AI machines.I hestitated to watch a film that used what seemed to be a cliched, tired theme. A mad scientist creates a machine that turns nightmarish.As it turns out, this movie was one of the better artificial..." more
Sunday, October 30, 2016 10:58:34 AM
Chantal Walvoord wrote a blog post titled Ex Machina:
Chantal said, "Ava looks at parts of other AI machines.I hestitated to watch a film that used what seemed to be a cliched, tired theme. A mad scientist creates a machine that turns nightmarish.As it turns out, this movie was one of the better artificial..." more
Thursday, October 27, 2016 6:15:01 PM
Chantal Walvoord wrote a blog post titled National Women's Business Week:
Chantal said, "National Business Women's Week is the 3rd week in October.A great book to read for National Business Women's Week is In The Company of Women by Grace Bonney. "
Tuesday, October 25, 2016 8:07:59 AM
Chantal Walvoord wrote a blog post titled The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton (Part 3):
Chantal said, "Despite an impressive beginning, the novel ends on a more predictable note. Greed and the desire for revenge spur some of the Amsterdammers against the Brandts. The Brandt's secrets are exposed and even the miniaturist cannot prevent the..." more
Sunday, October 23, 2016 6:03:42 PM
Chantal Walvoord wrote a blog post titled The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton (Part 3):
Chantal said, "Despite an impressive beginning, the novel ends on a more predictable note. Greed and the desire for revenge spur some of the Amsterdammers against the Brandts. The Brandt's secrets are exposed and even the miniaturist cannot prevent the..." more
Sunday, October 23, 2016 6:03:41 PM
Chantal Walvoord wrote a blog post titled The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton (Part 3):
Chantal said, "Despite an impressive beginning, the novel ends on a more predictable note. Greed and the desire for revenge spur some of the Amsterdammers against the Brandts. The Brandt's secrets are exposed and even the miniaturist cannot prevent the..." more
Friday, October 21, 2016 11:41:15 AM
Chantal Walvoord wrote a blog post titled Miniaturist by Jessie Burton part 2:
Chantal said, "Interestingly enough, the sister-in-law in The Miniaturist acts as the requisite mean stepmother. She wears black, forbids sugar, and excesses of any kind, yet she harbors a dark secret. Nella has been invited into a sumptuous world--the..." more
Thursday, October 20, 2016 7:35:14 AM
Chantal Walvoord wrote a blog post titled Miniaturist by Jessie Burton part 2:
Chantal said, "Interestingly enough, the sister-in-law in The Miniaturist acts as the requisite mean stepmother. She wears black, forbids sugar, and excesses of any kind, yet she harbors a dark secret. Nella has been invited into a sumptuous world--the..." more
Monday, October 17, 2016 8:25:07 AM
Chantal Walvoord wrote a blog post titled "Conversation With My Father," by Grace Paley:
Chantal said, "A woman and her 86-year-old father argue about short stories, life, and tragedy. She had always let him have the last word because of his health issues but this time she doesn't back down. This is one of my favorite stories because it's a story..." more
Thursday, October 13, 2016 8:57:37 AM
Chantal Walvoord wrote a blog post titled The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton:
Chantal said, " In this 2014 novel, Jessie Burton captures the life of a Dutch wife during the seventeenth century. Petronella has just married and feels belittled by her husband who ignores her. In keeping with the times, its an arranged marriage...." more
Tuesday, October 11, 2016 8:21:21 AM
Chantal Walvoord wrote a blog post titled The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton:
Chantal said, "There are many ways someone can someone else feel insignificant. Marin and Cornelia, the housekeeper, know how to make Petronella feel invisible. Her husband, whom she barely knows, also belittles her. He buys her a dress that is way too big..." more
Tuesday, October 11, 2016 8:21:21 AM
Chantal Walvoord wrote a blog post titled The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton:
Chantal said, "There are many ways someone can someone else feel insignificant. Marin and Cornelia, the housekeeper, know how to make Petronella feel invisible. Her husband, whom she barely knows, also belittles her. He buys her a dress that is way too big..." more
Monday, October 10, 2016 9:47:23 AM
Chantal Walvoord wrote a blog post titled A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles:
Chantal said, "There are several things to love about this novel. I love a book where literature is lauded. The Count's life is saved on account of a poem he wrote, which some thought had a revolutionary message. Count Alexander Rostov nevertheless finds..." more
Monday, October 3, 2016 12:46:24 PM
Chantal Walvoord wrote a blog post titled :
Chantal said, ""Ghost couldn't hurt you directly. They couldn't push you off a cliff, but the could lead you off one, if you were stupid enough to follow..." Razorhurst, Justine Larbalestier. "
Monday, October 3, 2016 12:46:24 PM
Chantal Walvoord wrote a blog post titled :
Chantal said, ""Ghosts couldn't hurt you directly. They couldn't push you off a cliff, but the could lead you off one, if you were stupid enough to follow..." Razorhurst, Justine Larbalestier. "
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 2:10:11 AM
Chantal Walvoord wrote a blog post titled Astray by Emma Donoghue:
Chantal said, "The impressive short stories in Astray are based on actual historical events. Donoghue, who wrote The Room, is able to get into the minds of countless people from a wide variety of historical periods."Man and Boy," which portrays..." more