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Bernadette Hondl Thomasy

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Coauthors and sisters Bernadette Hondl Thomasy and Colleen Hondl Gengler enjoy reminiscing about the Minnesota family farm where they grew up and sharing the challenging and fun times with readers everywhere. Graduates of the University of Minnesota, the authors love all things book-related and are active Friends of the Library volunteers.
Bernadette earned a master's degree in journalism from the University of Michigan and worked as a newspaper and public relations writer in Toledo, Ohio for 30 years. Since 2009 she and husband Ken have lived in Sacramento near their two daughters who are pursuing careers in Northern California. Bernadette loves being a grandmother to two girls and visits her Minnesota family as often as she can.
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The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County by Claire Swinarski
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After listening to this novel and enjoying its portrayal of small-town life in the Midwest, I ordered a print copy for family members who live in or grew up in a small town in Minnesota. Minnesotans might not want to admit they share social customs a ...more
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How many times when I was reading this book, did I sigh and think to myself, you've got to be kidding. The judge did what? The police hid that evidence? That expert witness wasn't really an expert? Did the jail snitch get a deal? Of course he/she did ...more
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"In a way, everything Didion wrote led to this book. I think it's one of her best and I sort of consider it the end of the trail, even though her biggest publishing success ("The Year of Magical Thinking") was just around the corner. This is Didion's " Read more of this review »
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As a relatively new Californian (resident of Sacramento 13 years) I was interested to read Sacramento native Joan Didion's memoir/literary criticism/history/investigative journalism in "Where I Was From". Regarded by Sacramento and California as one ...more
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“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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John Berger
“Seeing come before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.”
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“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”
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