tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post8124352607783015674..comments2024-03-28T09:42:20.558-04:00Comments on Writers Who Kill: Jim Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15090252530437277145noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-8932627439600748762017-02-18T21:09:22.394-05:002017-02-18T21:09:22.394-05:00I can think of lots worse ways to spend your time ...I can think of lots worse ways to spend your time when you're under the weather!<br /><br />I think it's time to revisit some of my old favorites.KM Rockwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03973749764907859829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-87081464464737165862017-02-18T18:05:44.375-05:002017-02-18T18:05:44.375-05:00Jim, I haven't read The Screwtape Letters. Int...Jim, I haven't read The Screwtape Letters. Interesting!<br /><br />Gloria, I love reading about your school projects. I read the Guernsey book when it came out. It's time for a re-read.<br /><br />Warren, answering machine messages would probably be text messages or tweets, but it's a great concept.<br /><br />Grace, enjoy the book. I remember the movie with Sandy Dennis.Margaret S. Hamiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07979191318652199350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-71515181679158087272017-02-18T14:21:51.785-05:002017-02-18T14:21:51.785-05:00Interesting sounding books. I'm old enough to ...Interesting sounding books. I'm old enough to remember when the movie, "Up the Down Staircase" came out. I didn't realize that it was based on a book of fiction. Grace Toppinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10291304815273486038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-40496685495922057162017-02-18T11:52:56.983-05:002017-02-18T11:52:56.983-05:00I wrote a short story using only messages left on ...I wrote a short story using only messages left on an answering machine.Warren Bullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07789270258599769915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-25712273901271348992017-02-18T10:42:02.416-05:002017-02-18T10:42:02.416-05:00My favorite one was The Guernsey Literary and Pota...My favorite one was The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows.They were an aunt and a niece. Unfortunately, the aunt died either before it came out or shortly after. It was a book pick for both of my book clubs and there wasn't one person in either book club who didn't love it. In fact, I think I'll go back to read it again.<br /><br />My middle-grade book The Sherlock Holmes Detective Club, is mostly written with letters; letters from an elderly woman traveling about the country on the track of jewel robbers, and the letters my students wrote to her believing Alice VanBrocken was a real person because I sent the letters I wrote as hers to family and friends throughout the country and them came to my class stamped and unopened from these different places. I used those of six boys and six girls and changed their names slightly. In the last week of school, my sister - much younger than Alice VanBrocken, visited the classroom posed as her. My students were so excited and lined up for her autograph after she gave her little talk.<br /><br />Also, my students always wrote to me in the notebooks I gave them to use as journals starting with, Dear Mrs. Alden, and wrote to the prompt or free writing about anything they wanted to write about every day, and every evening, I wrote back to them in the same way.Gloria Aldenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13581719606924364447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-8366800023745336742017-02-18T05:19:45.448-05:002017-02-18T05:19:45.448-05:00I recall thoroughly enjoying The Screwtape Letters...I recall thoroughly enjoying <i>The Screwtape Letters</i> by CS Lewis. It's an epistolary novel consisting of increasingly concerned letters from Demon Screwtape to his nephew Wormwood (a junior tempter) who is having a difficult time securing the damnation of "The Patient." I found it an interesting and novel way of dealing with the issues of temptation and Christian faith.<br /><br />~ JimJim Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15090252530437277145noreply@blogger.com