Comments on: A Book Reviewer’s Tale https://booksbywomen.org/a-book-reviewers-tale-by-susie-maguire/ Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:17:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 By: Friendships with Women: Getting by with a Little Help from Friends : Women Writers, Women Books https://booksbywomen.org/a-book-reviewers-tale-by-susie-maguire/#comment-344 Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:14:29 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=880#comment-344 […] thought I would choose an entirely different topic until I read Susie Maguire’s excellent June 11 post on Women Writers. These last few lines of hers reinforced my desire to carry on with my […]

]]> By: Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/a-book-reviewers-tale-by-susie-maguire/#comment-170 Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:36:32 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=880#comment-170 Fully agree Clare! Now we have another avenue for discovering friends, not just bus, train, plane and boat rides. (I met one friend on a flight from Paris to NYC).

About Susie’s post here. There are so many dimensions of this story that are worth calling out. Getting to hear from a writer who writes books reviews for a living, for a newspaper. That’s valuable. Seeing that some books just resonate at a whole different level. It just happens, and it’s powerful. Learning about Susie’s creative idea of 5 linked stories, and how that grew into many more, was performed on radio, and became a book anthology. And it’s always affirming to hear of friendships that start from afar, long shots, and thrive.

Thank you so very much for squeezing time from your deadlines to tell this story for us. It celebrates who we are on so many levels.

]]> By: Clare Kirkpatrick https://booksbywomen.org/a-book-reviewers-tale-by-susie-maguire/#comment-169 Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:28:35 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=880#comment-169 Internet friendships can be wonderful, very special things.

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