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Book Pilgrim

Barbara Shoup

A place to celebrate good books and ponder the journeys they spark, both in the real world and in our heads.

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Latest Issues

When the War Is Over

My parents met and fell in love at the Golden Lion Pub in Newmarket during World War II—my dad an American GI, my mom in the Women’s Royal Air Force. It’s D-Day today, news and social media full of stories and photographs from that fateful...

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Starlight and Moonshine

Joseph O’Malley’s Starlight and Moonshine begins with a news story about a fatal traffic accident involving an unnamed drunk driver. This is followed by the obituary of the victim, Hannah Fallon. The novel is about the aftermath of the acci...

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The Renovation

“I’m six years old and I smoke cigarettes,” has long been high on my list of All-time Favorite First Lines. The student who wrote it, at least thirty years ago, contacted me on Facebook a while back.

“Do you remember me?” she asked.

OMG,...

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Looking for Jack Kerouac

I have a vivid memory of standing in the park across the street from my house with a writer friend who was telling me about his idea for a YA novel involving Jack Kerouac. 1964. A teenage kid, growing up (where I grew up) in northwest India...

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The Greatest Possible Good

The first time I saw this cartoon, I had one of those lightbulb-over-the-head moments.

OMG. I’m not alone?

This was a long time ago, when, relatively new to adulthood, I had no clue that pretty much everyone had a dysfunctional family. No...

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    Barbara Shoup is the author of nine novels and two books about writing. She is the Writer-in-Residence at the Indiana Writers Center and a faculty member at Art Workshop International.

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