Ideal for singalongs at nursing homes, senior residences or just at your own home. Bound in a loose-leaf binder of durable vinyl, unsnaps for access to pages. (To see a photo of the book, click 
Goodbye, hello
This is a day of mixed feelings. It is a sad day — sad because we post the final chapter of Gerard Jones’ nonfiction novel Ginny Good. And yet the day has its up side, too — a new chapter of Jeri Cafesin’s novel Disconnected.
I knew since we started serializing Ginny Good in April that I would hate to see the last installment. Sure, I finished reading the book long ago, but posting two chapters a week — and writing blurbs about them — gave me a chance to review and enjoy them again.
I’ve always had a special feeling about the book because Jones and I are about the same age and temperament, and I was living in California, courtesy of the Army, during some of the years Jones writes about.
Of course, the book will remain on R&W Blog, so that’s a good thing. But if you’re like me, you hate to finish a good book. And Jones has written a good one. Thank you, G.
Well, buoying our spirits is Cafesin’s latest chapter of Disconnected, an e-book-in-progress about a young woman in conflict that has a vivid, almost cinematic narrative style. Cafesin, who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, also sets her novel in California, but in the star-struck Los Angeles area.
I got caught up in the book from an opening scene that introduced the protagonist holding a gun to her head.
Actually, we’re getting more than a new chapter. Cafesin also has made revisions to the introductory and subsequent four chapters, and those have been incorporated into our text here.
That’s the wonderful thing about e-books. You don’t have to go collecting all the ones in print in order to make changes. They can be made on a website at the speed of electricity.
Posting e-books does require a little extra time here at R&W Blog because we usually have to reformat submitted text into our page styles. But we do it gladly.
As we told Cafesin, she’s the one really doing all the work. Once our little formatting is done, we just sit back and enjoy the fruits of her efforts.
And let’s not forget another author whose work we’re serializing — the talented R.J. Keller and her novel, Waiting for Spring. Like Jones’ book, Keller’s is a finished work that she has allowed us to post in chapters.
And so, this seems like an appropriate time to present:
Today’s new offerings in Works:
• Chapter 35: I-5 of Gerard Jones’ nonfiction novel Ginny Good. Gerard, back in the present in Oregon, says his goodbyes to Ginny, Elliot, Melanie and others from his chapters — and to us.
• Chapter Five of Jeri Cafesin’s novel Disconnected. After an exhausting Thanksgiving with her family, Rachel reconnects with Lee for an evening at a posh Malibu restaurant where she learns more about him than their mutual interest in marijuana. But she resists her attraction to him and continues to dismiss him as nothing more than a ‘charming distraction.’
• Chapter 23 of R.J. Keller’s novel Waiting for Spring. Tess learns from her father that he and her mother are divorcing after nearly 38 years, then finds out from her mother that she’s already sold their house. Tess warns her mother that she’d better split the proceeds with Dad — or else.
– Sid Leavitt
NOTE:
So how did you like the Beatles video? Didn’t watch it? You’d better. I spent hours on the Internet trying to learn how to embed videos within blog text. I succeeded here only by writing a hellacious pile of html code at the beginning of this entry, probably half of it wrong and the other half redundant — enough to make a real computer programmer gag.
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August 10, 2008 at 12:22 pm
It’s a good last chapter. Here’s the audio version. Thanks. G.
http://everyonewhosanyone.com/audio/GGch35m.mp3
August 10, 2008 at 1:01 pm
You know, G, I wasn’t thinking of your audio version when I put a Beatles video at the top of this entry. How appropriate it was, considering that your reading of Chapter 35 also began with the Beatles. Of course, I know you have used their music in other parts of your readings, but still. . .
By the way, you’re an excellent reader. I didn’t see any mention of broadcasting in your book, but I have a feeling you’ve done it before.
And I’ll say it again about Ginny Good — thank you.
August 10, 2008 at 5:37 pm
I’ve experienced Ginny Good in ebook, hard copy and audio — which means I’ve read it three times — yet I’m still sad to see it end here.
Still, I’m excited as always to read another chapter of Disconnected.
And yes, I watched the Beatles video and enjoyed it very much. George is still my favorite.
August 10, 2008 at 9:48 pm
I couldn’t agree more with everything you’ve said, including George Harrison. It was his lead guitar that made the sound of practically everything the Beatles did in their later years — and those were the years that made the group a legend.
Of course, I know ‘Hello Goodbye’ was one of their less serious songs, but I love it for a different kind of string performance — the basslines played by Paul McCartney. They give a band concert-like quality of fun to the song. (And despite all the jokes about bass players, it ain’t at all easy to do.)
August 11, 2008 at 8:52 am
Here’s all the Beatles stuff I stuck in: A Day in the Life, Helter Skelter, Piggies, Paperback Writer, Love Me Do, She Loves You, Twist and Shout, Within You and Without You, Tomorrow Never Knows, Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey, She’s Leaving Home, In My Life, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band, Something, Here Comes the Sun, Golden Slumbers, Yesterday, Fixing A Hole, When I’m Sixty-Four, Let It Be and The End.
Whoa, that’s a lotta Beatles but my favorite in the whole thing was “Transfusion” by Nervous Norvus. I never read nothing on no radio, tho. G.