5/31/2023 0 Comments The not so big houseThere are traditional designs to fit in with Massachusetts styling and contemporary designs to adapt to California cliffs, and they range from country spaces to suburban homes to city apartments. Her ideas for interior as well as exterior views, airy stairways, diagonal views, and framed openings translate well in an array of different houses appropriate to childless couples and large families, as well as hot climes in Texas and cooler regions in Vermont. She selected 25 house designs, from a southwestern adobe to a Minnesota farmhouse to a New York apartment to a Rhode Island summer cottage, and she profiles each home in great and well-illustrated detail. And she provides more than mere ideals around which to rally. Descriptors like "spacious" and "expansive" fill the real-estate promos, but Susanka seeks the elusive yet affordable qualities that turn a house into a home. She contrasts the glamorous, glossy-photo house plans of vaulted ceilings and palatial living rooms with the livable, day-to-day pleasure of cozy window seats and comfortable breakfast nooks, and her conclusion is resonating with families across the country: bigger but shoddier isn't better than smaller and well made. Sarah Susanka has a not-so-insignificant idea in Creating the Not So Big House.
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Imagine descending deeper and deeper into someone’s soul extracting fragmentary, broken glimpses of one’s intelligent, ambitious, lurking, and unafraid outpourings. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath is impenetrable. Perhaps, what words are are a compromise a bargain between who you really are and who you want to be. Perhaps, the writing is you and your only possession. So you continue to flow, even if words no longer serve you, resolve you, pardon you. But you know that if you die, the words die with you. You neglect the body you sacrificed for your writing. You deny your eyes that can see, your ears that can hear, and your mouth that can speak. You neglect the body and mind that is, in fact, the tangible being. When they don’t, you’re left guessing where the real you is. To a point where you expect the words to flow a certain way. You visualize what it means, give it body, a beating heart, veins, an assimilating spirit. You’re taught to create a rhythm out of writing. It has structure, direction, and purpose. **I am only on Goodreads when one of my publishers sets up a Q&A for me, so the best way to contact me is through my website: or on twitter: Thank you so much for reading my books!**. Jasmine lives in an apartment filled with books with her husband, two tiny daughters, large dog, and mischievous cat. Her debut middle grade novel, Other Words For Home, will be published in Spring 2019. Not to be missed. This is an extraordinary debut by a striking new voice in YA fiction that left me in awe and moved beyond measure. Her books have been published in over twenty-five countries and optioned for film. 'My Heart and Other Black Holes is alive with intensity, gut-wrenching honesty, moments of humor, and-of course-heart. She is the internationally bestselling author of My Heart and Other Black Holes and Here We Are Now. **I am only on Goodreads when one of my publishers sets up a Q&A for me, so the best way to contact me is through my website: or on twitter: Thank you so much for reading my books!** Jasmine Warga is a writer from Cincinnati, Ohio who currently resides in Chicago, Illinois. Her books have been published in over twenty-five countries and optioned for film. Jasmine Warga is a writer from Cincinnati, Ohio who currently resides in Chicago, Illinois. |