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Meredith Marple

Autor(a) de The Year Mrs. Cooper Got Out More

2 Works 6 Membros 1 Review

About the Author

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Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Locais de residência
Ohio, Massachusetts, Maine, Florida
Educação
Tufts University
Ocupações
Writing and publishing books

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Meredith Marple is a former independent publisher and current writer of memoir and fiction. With a B.S. in zoology from Tufts University, she spent many years in educational publishing before switching over to trade publishing and then writing.

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Críticas

Through the vast majority of my working life I’ve basically been a loner at work, not because of my friendly personality but because of my superior analytical skills and my ability to create and work with spreadsheets; my co-workers, as you might correctly assume had been nothing more than overly envious of.

With my dear OH working as well, we both were mentally tired by the time we got home. And with both of us marrying late in life, 43 and 39; I’m the one who’s 43, we decided not to have children. The weekend was the time we had to ourselves, dining out, going to movies [paying the senior discounted prices], shopping trips to malls with an hour drive from our home.

Even though I grew up at about the same time as Ms. Marple, my mother every got involved with playing Mahjong; instead they played a rummy card game known as Kalooki[e]; which is similar to the tile game known as Rummy-O. After retiring I joined by near-by senior center where both of these games are played after eating lunch; and naturally I gravitated towards playing Kalooki[e]. The player mix of backgrounds is basically the same as the author’s, and I’m the one who got outed for being analytical.

Since retiring I started my second career, a career in which I’ve fulfilled my lifelong dream of becoming an author; and right now I’ve got two books already self-published with three more on the way. This career hit a bump, my writing stopped and I gravitated towards being a Book Reviewer, and in the past two years I’ve already reviewed 375 books. And I’m now back to my writing and hopefully will have my third book out before the end of this end.

Ms. Meredith Marple and myself apparently have one thing in common, and that the one thing is each of us saying: “I’ve got to be me.”

And the one song which I feel fits both of us too a “T” is, “I’ve Got to Be Me.”

LYRICS:

Whether I'm right or whether I'm wrong
Whether I find a place in this world or never belong
I gotta be me, I've gotta be me
What else can I be but what I am

I want to live, not merely survive
And I won't give up this dream
Of life that keeps me alive
I gotta be me, I gotta be me
The dream that I see makes me what I am

That far away prize, a world of success
Is waiting for me if I heed the call
I won't settle down, won't settle for less
As long as there's a chance that I can have it all

I'll go it alone, that's how it must be
I can't be right for somebody else
If I'm not right for me
I gotta be free, I've gotta be free
Daring to try, to do it or die
I've gotta be me

For giving me something which I, and many readers, can relate to, I’ve given this book 5 STARS.

I read this book via a KINDL Unlimited download.
… (mais)
 
Assinalado
MyPenNameOnly | Aug 24, 2016 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
2
Membros
6
Popularidade
#1,227,255
Avaliação
4.8
Críticas
1
ISBN
1