Caroline Shepard, Author

Review: Unlit Spaces “a gem of a novel”

caroline — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 01:42:24 +0000

Believable charactersand carefully crafted story make Unlit Spaces a gem Reviewed by Jeanette Rive, Glebe Report, February 2015 Local author Caroline Shepard has written a gem of a novel. She has successfully incorporated all the elements of a (…)

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Random Riffs, January 2015

caroline — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 03:28:18 +0000

‘Random Riffs’ unwind, apparently without warning, from one of life’s unexpected moments. They will be posted from time to time, as they unwind. [the retired blog, ‘OPENING LINES‘, is archived here…] “absence” Last November, Parker and I stayed in (…)

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Random Riffs, December 2014

caroline — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 17:39:01 +0000

‘Random Riffs’ unwind without warning from one of life’s unexpected moments. They are posted from time to time, as they unwind.[the recently retired blog, ‘OPENING LINES‘, is archived here…] “what’s in a cupboard?” Just prior to the launch of (…)

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Opening Lines:No.10

caroline — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 22:50:38 +0000

OPENING LINES: No.10 Summer/Fall 2012 with notes on procrastination, and a nod to Oscar Peterson “As recently as two years ago, when I was twenty-six, I dressed in ratty jeans and a sweatshirt with lettering across the chest.” Carol Shields, (…)

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Opening Lines: Riff No.9

caroline — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:30:26 +0000

OPENING LINES: Riff No.9, April 2012 “124 was spiteful. Full of a baby’s venom.” Toni Morrison, Beloved, 1987 For weeks now, Caroline has been waiting. Poor deluded thing, you might say, to have assumed that her breathless grasp of (…)

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Opening Lines: Riff No.7

caroline — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:45:40 +0000

OPENING LINES: Riff No.7 December 2011 “Just east of Juliet, there’s a little campground known to the locals as Ghost Creek, even though there has never been a ghost sighting that anyone can recall.” (Opening Line, Chapter Two) Dianne Warren, (…)

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Opening Lines: Riff No.6

caroline — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 01:55:14 +0000

OPENING LINES: Riff No.6, October 2011 “…ruined by literature.” “Dr. Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.” Anita Brookner, The Debut, 1981 I promised myself I would never search the internet for an Opening Line. (…)

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Opening Lines: Riff No.5

caroline — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 22:57:35 +0000

OPENING LINES: Riff No.5, September 2011 “Where was the young man….“ “Where was the young man who had given her so many admiring glances yesterday?” Gabrielle Roy, The Tin Flute, 1947. (translated from the French by Hannah Josephson*) My mother, (…)

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Opening Lines: Riff No.4

caroline — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:48:30 +0000

OPENING LINES: Riff No. 4, August 2011 “…there was once a neighborhood” “In that place, where they tore the nightshade and blackberry patches from their roots to make room for the Medallion City Golf Course, there was once a neighborhood.” (…)

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Opening Lines: ‘Riff’ No.3, introducing ‘Unlit Spaces’

caroline — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 16:27:52 +0000

OPENING LINES: Riff No.3, July, 2011 The opening line from my own first novel may not immediately suggest, as Eduardo Galeono’s opening line did, that you are about to embark on a life changing reading experience! Still, I do hope (…)

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Opening Lines: Riff No.2

caroline — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:10:17 +0000

OPENING LINES: Riff No.2, June 2011 “To Pass Back Through The Heart”-PART II “Recordar: to remember, from the Latin re-cordis, to pass back through the heart.” Eduardo Galeano, The Book of Embraces, 1991 (translated from the Spanish by Cedric Belfrage (…)

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Opening Lines: Riff No.1

caroline — Tue, 31 May 2011 19:45:34 +0000

Opening Lines: Riff No.1, May 2011 “To Pass Back Through The Heart”-PART I. “Recordar: to remember, from the Latin re-cordis, to pass back through the heart.” Eduardo Galeano, The Book of Embraces, 1991 (translated from the Spanish by Cedric Belfrage (…)

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