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https://www.guru.com/freelancers/priscilla-king
https://www.fiverr.com/priscillaking
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https://www.seoclerk.com/user/PriscillaKing
One of those six sites ought to work for you, but if it doesn't, you can also mail a U.S. postal money order to Boxholder, P.O. Box 322, Gate City, Virginia, 24251-0322.)
Now the book links from the e-mail I've made the time to read, alphabetically by book authors, just to be fair...Fellow Amazon Associates' book links are linked to their sites, so they get credit if you buy the books. Otherwise I'd be competing directly against them, which is not the purpose of this post. Captionless book images should, theoretically, route you directly to Amazon via my associate account.
Recommended by +Marsha Cooper ...I like beans. For those who don't think you like beans, a tip: Be sure you're fully hydrated before eating them. Water suppresses the fizzy reactions produced when the body digests beans, cabbage, sweet potatoes, bananas, etc.
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| Clickable link at http://marshasspot.blogspot.com/2017/08/frugal-friday-with-marsha-meals-from.html |
US$4 per day for food? Next question: can you currently find these food items, for these prices, reliably, in any U.S. city? Good luck trying, anyway. Thanks to +Marsha Cooper for this recommendation, too:
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| Clickable link at http://marshasspot.blogspot.com/2017/08/frugal-friday-with-marsha-meals-from.html |
Recommended by Mudpie's Human:
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| Clickable link is at http://www.mochasmysteriesmeows.com/2017/08/the-must-read-cat-book-of-2017-strays.html |
Long awaited...Louise Erdreich announced this one. I'd previewed a section of it too.
Louise Erdreich's preview of this forthcoming book shows just a bit of political bias: these "American nomads" are not victims of "an unfettered free market." They're victims of a fettered, ostensibly free, market economy, cluttered with restrictions and regulations and burdens galore. That's why they can't stay where they wanted to be in the first place and build a local economy there. Anyway the book sounds like an informative read.
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Nomadland by Jessica Bruder (available 9/26/17). Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century. You will never forget the people whose stories Bruder tells. Proud, resourceful, screwed-over, funny and in so many ways admirable, the American nomads Bruder lived with and reports on have sometimes lost everything but their bravado. These are people whose middle class jobs dried up, people who lost their homes when the housing market crashed, people who should have comfortably retired but instead are nearly broke. Opting to live in vans, campers, trailers, various RVs, they follow seasonal work from Amazon warehouses in the Southwest to the sugar beet harvest in the Red River Valley of North Dakota. Most people are in their 60s or 70s. The Amazon jobs are so grueling that there is a period of "work hardening" before they begin, and dispensers of OTC pain relievers on the warehouse walls.
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The Blaze inadvertently recommended an oldie...Stephen King's It, up for remaking and deplored by a crybully as "racist and sexist" because it's about White guys. Hello? How many writers ever succeed in creating fictional major characters who are different enough from themselves not to suggest that the stories are autobiographical? Carrie (about a White girl) and Christine (about a car) showed us that Big Steve was a cut above most horror fiction writers, but why would his early novels not have been about White guys? There's a reason why Margaret Atwood writes about Canadian women of the Greatest Generation, and why Daniel Defoe wrote about British people...So, now, the question. Do you think this particular lot of fictional White guys, in It, are sexist? Why or why not? If you were around when the first edition (shown below) was in bookstores, has your opinion changed since then?
(Fair disclosure: I've written short stories where the major characters were male. I've tried to write decent if minor roles for Black American males, because a comparison of American fiction with my experience in Washington suggests that decent Black men are underrepresented in American fiction; my zombie stories began with two guys, the stronger of whom was Black. I wrote and failed to sell a story, cut down from a potential novel, where the heroine is Korean-American. I think American fiction doesn't have to be set in contemporary, ethnically diverse cities, but if it is, then it needs to be realistically diverse. But in a full-length novel, I'd stick to women as main characters, either White or culturally assimilated Native American or a mix of both, or else humanoid alien women...or children. I just wouldn't trust myself to write at that length as a member of a demographic defined by difference from me. To the extent that Stephen King has ever done that, his success is just another indication of a superior talent channelled into a much-despised genre of writing.)
Amazon recommended Rush Limbaugh's history series for kids. I've not read it; if "conservative" correspondents have e-mailed about it before this August, I've not read the e-mails. It's so typical of Limbaugh to insert himself as a main character in these "time travel" storybooks, but then, if you tolerate his voice and pay attention, he can be quite funny--in a more complex and sophisticated way than he's usually given credit for. His history course might be a real blast.
If you buy any of these books, after reading it, please feel free to send it to me for further discussion here!
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