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WELCOME TO: GEMINI RISING   UPDATED INTRO 28 MAY 2024: Just a little about me. I've been married for 32 years this past NOV and currently live in Southern California, but I grew up in New Hampshire. I've got 2 boys who are young adults. I work as a 911 dispatcher for LAPD. I enjoy my job a lot. Still. If you can believe that. I love to write. Thankfully both of my boys achieved Eagle Scout. My Scouting days are over and I'm back to focusing on my writing. I like to get out in nature, drink coffee and watch football. Here's a little bio about my zodiac. GEMINI: Gemini, the sign of the Twins, is dual-natured, elusive, complex and contradictory. On the one hand it produces the virtue of versatility, and on the other the vices of two-facedness and flightiness. The sign is linked with Mercury, the planet of childhood and youth, and its subjects tend to have the graces and faults of the young. When they are good, they are very attractive; when they are bad they are more the worse for being the charmers they are. Like children they are lively, and happy, if circumstances are right for them, or egocentric, imaginative and restless. Their good qualities are attractive and come easily to them. They are affectionate, courteous, kind, generous, and thoughtful towards the poor and suffering - provided none of the activities resulting from expressing these traits interferes too greatly with their own lives and comforts. Geminians can be successful in many walks of life though their general characteristics tend to make them unreliable. They are often skilled manipulators of language, in speech and writing, and may be: debaters, diplomats (though in politics they are more interested in theory than practice), orators, preachers (brilliant rather than profound), teachers, authors, poets, journalists, or lawyers. This is me. I am a Gemini. Pure, Raw, passionate. The NEW focus of this blog is to share my adventures, travels, random thoughts, book reviews, thoughts, opinions, and writing adventures from actual writing, writing/editing tips, marketing, research. I'll get there. BLOG ACCOMPLISHMENTS: SEPTEMBER 2024: I participated in the
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| I heard the new "Hunger Games" book was out and bought it ASAP. It's called "Sunrise on the Reaping" and it'a about Haymitch's games. Honestly, I can't wait to read it. I was completely intrigued by the 1st Trilogy of books, Hunger Games, Catching Fire and Mockingjay. Hunger Games & the series is dystopian fiction. I'd define dystopian as set in the future and a bit bleak. It explores extreme social & political systems in the future that I think are oppressive. Thus the story is often about the human spirit and exercise of free will. Usually a rebellion of some sort is involved. Sometimes I can't help but wonder if the future, stifled by political/social systems requires a 'reset.' I suppose that's the intrigue of dystopian fiction. What did we do to ourselves in the name of science that ruined our civilizations? I think the new "Planet of the Apes" movies (#1 being Rise with James Franco) does a good job of being in the moment and exploring deeper thinking of our actions. What did Hunger Games mean to me? I saw the first movie on video and it blew me away. Jennifer Lawrence was phenomenal in that movie. Her acting tugged on the heartstrings and was believable. I read all the books after that and went and saw the movies in the theatres. I thought they were great "what if" movies that explored a lot of complex topics from the simple things that bind us together as humans and that government, while good intend, has lost it's way and has become out of touch with with the people they are suppose to support. I'm looking forward to reading the book about Haymitch. A recent interview with Suzanne Collins said she wanted to explore the following themes: Of media and propaganda used in society so I'm looking forward to seeing the book from that angle. Are you a Hunger Games Fan? Why or why not? Do you plan on reading "Sunrise on the Reaping?" Enjoy this reading by Suzanne Collins: |
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