Flo and Friends by Jenny Campbell for February 18, 2024

But their words will never die

Maybe they’ll find a lost manuscript…

This is the site I always use to find out if my favorite authors have new books out. You can use amazon too I guess or goodreads but I like how easy it is to navigate fantastic fiction. It won’t let me post the link I’ll have to type it out. Fantasticfiction dot com.

I prefer dead authors, they don’t keep pumping out sequels.

Score one for Tregg.

It seems like I really HAVE been waiting for a new Steinbeck for a while, now.

Yes, they are, as are a good many wonderful authors.

Gee, you could have broke it to her a little more gently.

Many of my favorites are gone now too Ruthie :-(

The saddest part when a writer dies is that he or she takes all future works along with them. I’m not really a Jane Austin fan, but Langston Hughes is one of my favorite poets.

I love the imagery of “Mother to Son.”

Well, son, I’ll tell you:

Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.

It’s had tacks in it,And splinters,

And boards torn up,

And places with no carpet on the floor—

Bare.

One of the posters on my classroom wall was a photograph of a field of snow with the second verse of “Dreams.”

hold fast to dreams

for when dreams go

life is a barren field

frozen in snow

—Langsdon Hughes