Tag Archives: The Bishop’s Beggar

Visiting Old Friends

Posted on February 10, 2023 by Tonette Joyce

Oh, that I had the time! But there is a help for that, so that I can revisit those that moved me, changed me and those that introduced me to life-long friends. Before I could read, I had my aunt and … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthologies, audiobooks, authors, blessings, Books, characters, childhood, Children's books, classics, Clean Writing, Daily life, descriptions, dialogue, Family, favorite books, favorites, friends, imagination, inspiration, inspirational stories, Kindle, language, Life, memories, novels, personal libraries, phrases, plots, poetry, Random thoughts, short stories, time management, Tonette Joyce, Words of Wisdom, writers, writing | Tagged Julius Caesar, Lord of the Rings books, Mary Poppins, multitasking, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Bishop's Beggar, The Narnia books, The Secret Garden, Thhe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | 4 Comments

“Occasional” Books

Posted on June 17, 2016 by Tonette Joyce

Our topic this week is to tell what books we might give to a person for a special occasion, crossing a milestone. For instance, a wedding. That one is easy: “Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus”. I scoffed … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, childhood, Life, Tonette Joyce, writing | Tagged book suggestions, Gift books, Guy De Maupassant, I Want a Hat Like That, Men Are From Mars, Robert Louis Stevenson Stevenson, Scrawny Lion, Sesame Street, Stephen Vincent Benet, The Bishop's Beggar, The Care and Feeding of Sick Children, The Little Red Caboose, The Necklace, The Owl and the Pussycat, The Tawny, Tootle, Winken and Blinken and Nod, Women Are From Venus, Write Source 2000 | 5 Comments

Good Books,Good Movies?

Posted on May 15, 2015 by Tonette Joyce

This week’s question is: What books do we think would make good movies? That is harder to answer than I first thought. There is usually a great deal of change between book and getting it to the screen. In some … Continue reading →

Posted in authors, Books, movies, protagonists, Random thoughts, reading preferences, Tonette Joyce, writing | Tagged "There's No Place Like Here", "Where Rainbows End", Artemis Fowl, Cecilia Ahern, Davis Way series, Eoin Colfer, Eugene O'Neill, Forrest Gump, Geoff Rodkey, Getchen Archer, Ghost Girl, Harry Potter, If you could see me now, Italian Kitchen series, Janet Evanovich, Katherine Heigl, Lilies of the Field, One For the Money, P.S. I Love You, Rachel Joyce, Rachel Joyce's 'Perfect', Rosie Dunne, Rosie Genova, Standards and Practices, Stange Interlude, Stephen Vincent Benet, The Bishop's Beggar, The Chronicles of Egg, The Hayes Office, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Frye, Tonya Hurley | 4 Comments

List-Ten

Posted on October 3, 2014 by Tonette Joyce

I am usually left out of many of the Facebook writer’s challenges because although I am a published writer, I am not a published book author. However, a rather famous author of my personal acquaintance recently hit me topic: Ten … Continue reading →