Mark Graham
Bio
I am a person who really likes to read and write and to share what I learned with all my education. My page will mainly be book reviews and critiques of old and new books that I have read and will read. There will also be other bits, too.
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The Green Door
The person did not go back to the secret room for a while for there were too many others that were roaming around the door. She did not want anyone for the time being to know that she knew that the room was there. She wondered who did live there at one time and seems to visit every once in a while, to tidy things up for the girl never seems to notice anyone from the staff going in that general direction maybe they use that back entrance to do their cleaning duties. Maybe I should ask around but not in a conspicuous way. Who should I ask first?
By Mark Graham2 years ago in Fiction
The Room part three
In this room there are many options that one may take. One way could be to just repaint the walls a white or grayish color or as if it was a child that created the partial image still on the wall for there must have been a reason for it. For what is there for to me it is a garden view for there is lattice and leaves. The plant on the windowsill to the left looks to me like the leaves on the wall. What could this mean? Whoever designed this is one very creative person adult or child.
By Mark Graham2 years ago in Fiction
The Women
Here is a novel written by Kristin Hannah entitled 'The Women'. It is a novel of the women who were nurses serving during the Vietnam War. The main character, who goes by the name of Frankie is the focus of the story and how she comes to grips about herself from someone who wants to make her family proud to a person who just wants to be accepted for what she has accomplished. Frankie is a new nurse who decides she wants to serve her country in Vietnam as a way to be close to a brother who was killed over there. She goes even though her parents are against it, and she should just get married and have children as this was the time that women could really only be nurses, teachers or secretaries other than mothers.
By Mark Graham2 years ago in Critique
Recovery
Recovery what does it mean? There are many ways to define recovery and I am going to describe it in my own words. Recovery is when a person is recuperating from an activity usually after an activity of some kind. A runner can recover (rest) after a race, a patient recovers after surgery, a groundskeeper recovers after completing various outdoor jobs, etc. How one recovers depend on what one has done.
By Mark Graham2 years ago in Critique
Blizzard
After reading another creators poem on snow it kind of made me homesick for a good down-home blizzard from the North. Even though it is hot and humid in the Deep South where I live now, I really miss the cold and snow from the North for it is September and it supposed to start getting chilly now but not here in Louisiana, and I actually think it's getting more humid. Snow has it hazards, and you know what I mean, but it so pretty and I always like watching it fall covering everything. For the last few weeks or say a month all I want is cool weather for I will accept highs in the 50's now for that would be better than 90's and 100's.
By Mark Graham2 years ago in Critique
More books
How many books can one really read? I am a person that would rather read a book than do anything else. Reading books for me is a way to learn new ideas and things to do other than just a way to relax with a cup of tea or coffee, but maybe can of beer. Books are my friend, and I am finding out how many books that one can really read and being a book reviewer helps a lot.
By Mark Graham2 years ago in Critique
Electric typewriter
The image is one of an old electric typewriter that has probably typed quite a bit of work by various writers of all kinds. This is an image of an electric typewriter that I also had at one time. I remember the buzz sound it made when you turned it on the element scanned across the platen as you waited to start typing whatever you had planned, whether it be a story, poem, or term paper. It still had the clickity clack sound of an old manual, but one did not have to punch the keys so hard as one had to do on a manual.
By Mark Graham2 years ago in Critique
The Butler
It has been a while since I read a Danielle Steel novel and this one entitled 'The Butler' is quite the fun page-turner. It is about two families that are very similar. One is about Joachim and the other Oliva, an Argentinian and an American. Joachim is a mirror twin, who is a butler, who meets Oliva when she needs an assistant for a job that she needs help doing, but there is one thing each of them will need to get over some very sad events that occurred in their pasts. This is a family story that covers the globe, and one will see that friendship can lead to other things.
By Mark Graham2 years ago in Critique
HeartBreaker
Sarah MacLean has written a historical romance entitled 'HeartBreaker'. This is the story of a young woman who wants to help her sex be able to find their own love matches instead of them being arranged by family. She believes in love even though during her time marriage was to have children and improve family standings. On a mission she meets and works with another person a man who is a Duke. Adelaide and Henry are the two main characters who start out hating but find ways to help each other out in various situations. This is quite the fun read and the cover is what made me pick the book up and read for the face of the woman seemed intriguing.
By Mark Graham2 years ago in Critique
What is sketching?
So, what is sketching? Sketching is an artistic form that is the very beginnings of a drawing or a painting of an object of some kind. An object could be just about anything from the common fruit bowl to a tree to a house, etc. To me sketching is just a way to relax and have fun. As some say a picture is like a thousand words. Artists are writers and writers are artists. One uses pictures and one uses words. To me these two careers are compatible with each other. What would a book especially a children's or youth book be without pictures or at least some illustrations. I think adult books even have illustrations at times if I'm not mistaken.
By Mark Graham2 years ago in Critique
Skully
Who is Skully? Skully is a leaf person who can easily disappear into his surroundings. One day Skully is out walking about in his usual way in a very svelte way through the park when he saw something that was very different from what he normally sees in the park and he wants it, but he sees that it belongs to a man who will go unknown for he is not important except for his hat of bright red. Scully wants a pinch of red for some color.
By Mark Graham2 years ago in Fiction
