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Find Some Beautiful Books to Read!
Copyright 2025;
Marguerite Bloem.
All Rights Reserved.
Gracias.🎋🎋
On Bloemworks
You Will Discover...
You Will Discover...
Ten fine books; of which;
here are the first six.
Happy Trails
The Jazz Meister
The Honor Code
Fledgling Season
Song Song Blue
The Way of the Goat
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A Gentle Introduction.
Here are several small
shorter beauties for you.
THESE SLENDER volumes feature a beautiful simple original cover foto and design. And a gentle text; that has a delicious rhyme and reason and structure and rhythm and form; that will gently sweep the reader along!
Marguerite likes to call these dear small works novellas perhaps.-For their more gentle simple immediate scope. Or; they can be small collections of more loosely-connected short stories. Or; if they are shorter in pages; or smaller in form; she thinks of them as Story Cards.🎋🎋
BOOK ONE: HAPPY TRAILS!
Paperback; 6 x 9; 67 pages.
Novella; nine small linked short stories.
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Cover Foto.
AS A GIRL; i lived in the San Gabriel valley; where all of the recent fires were. This was a foto i took; of a long-ago visit back home. Over the years i have truly missed; and come to realize; how absolutely comforting that gentle backdrop of foothills was; to our lovely quiet valley. (I felt the same nostalgia; walking the streets of Hollywood.) And we did have many happy trails there! Though my title for these stories refers more to my lovely city explorations; which have brought the loveliest life-affirming encounters all their own.🎋
Verbatim.
SHE WAS WEARING her warm tawny universal work boots.-That everyone around the world seemed to wear! Though hers; with some vanity then perhaps; would always come with her own unique personal touch. Nice fat chunky laces! Well; red ones; of course...
From Happy Trails;
by marguerite bloem🎋
by marguerite bloem🎋
Commentario.
SHALL WE go walking with Marguerite? She has been walking; both to get places; and also; simply for the sheer pleasure of it all; all of her life! To see things; to see people! And to hear the sounds of a busy city at work and play. Here is a celebration then! Of the beautiful interesting people you can meet; walking the streets of our neighborhoods. And they do not all look like you!
Nor; of course; do they have to. In Marguerite's burg; people not only welcome; but they celebrate diversity. (In our schools and businesses too.) Marguerite has walked the city streets all of her life! And she thinks that is the loveliest way to get somewhere; anywhere. And; to see the whole world too.
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BOOK TWO: THE JAZZ MEISTER
Paperback; 6 x 9; 71 pages.
Novella; nine sweet small chapters.
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Cover Foto.
MY HUSBAND and i were on a gorgeous weekend hike. (This foto was an impulsive selfie i took; not meaning to use it for anything.)-That looked to me like it could be that infamous Gooseberry Cove! (The setting of my book then.) I even thought i saw old Spratt; walking by that tree there. (Which would be on the back side of my book.) A reason for you to buy it then! But, oh, my! Ah, Spratt.-Oh my. That was what you would say about that.🎋
Verbatim.
BUT THEY called those children Spratt's Brats. You have probably heard about that. There was something in the water; people would say! About those strange famous musical children then. Of that strange; perhaps infamous Gooseberry Cove.-From The Jazz Meister; by marguerite bloem.🎋
Commentario.
THIS BOOK is written for adults. But with the gentle innocence; joy and simplicity of a children's book! Because sometimes life is that. It is a celebration of an old revered jazz master; who taught her dear boy jazz.-Oh, mama; the saxophone! Come watch those kids! As they try to master those sweet charming rough innocent tones.-Of those sassy sassy brassy horns.
That boy got so good on sax! But make note; it was his mama who taught him how to read music; and how to count those crazy jazzy notes. Because no one else was teaching those kids that!-"I can't do that!" His private music teacher said. But what?! (Begging her pardon then; but what?!) Which seemed strange to both of them! And they dropped him pretty quick after that. But that was really fun for her! That boy was so smart; he learned so fast; she loved that!
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BOOK THREE: THE HONOR CODE
Paperback; 6 x 9; 85 pages.
Novella; eight small chapters.
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Cover Foto.
I WAS ON a late-college trip back home; three hours on the city-bus each way. (That was a long boring trip. Sometimes i was the only one riding!) Though studying the vast terrain did interest me; a vast terrain of nothingness. Where were all the people; i wondered; though i saw a lot of cars.-A lot of small low stores; and cars. And that was my dear father; of course. Who had big beautiful dreams; but also; who passed them on to all of us.-Thank you; Opa! Who my boy never met. But we did have an honor code! We had a sterling honor code; we had a gold standard one!-And one that never let me down. My father was a modest soft-spoken man who worried for the whole world.-Rest in peace; Opa; i miss you. And now; especially; would have been an amazing time to talk to you.-Well then; to commiserate with you. And say hi to Oma too!🎋
Verbatim.
SHE HAD already begun to bully poor Miss Margaux; quite boldly; quite brazenly; from one house over. But then one day; she came to the house right next door to Miss Margaux; and taunted her from the walkway.-"Pretty soon i'm gonna live right next to you!" she said. "Bet you like that don't you; Margaux?" Then she cackled; with great pleasure; like a witch.
"Ah-ha; ha-ha; ha-ha; ha-ha; ha!" But Miss Margaux was home raising a boy! She couldn't bother to trouble herself with that; she filled her world with beautiful things! For the sake of that beautiful boy.
Well; for the sake of both of them. But now; after more than thirty years of that; and bearing the weight of that all on her own; you finally have to have your say.-From The Honor Code by Marguerite Bloem.🎋
Commentario.
FROM A GENTLE LADY who does not play with bullies.-No. Not ever; no. She surely had the wrong mother. She surely had the wrong girl. Because no one ever bullied Miss Margaux.-Not ever. No one.
This is a quite serious tome; that she did not really want to write. But she is unaccustomed to having bullies; as neighbors. Even; quite strangely; grownup ones! Wealthy established grownup ones. She comes from a more enlightened world. So this; quite necessarily; is a deadly earnest study of societies.
Especially then; of women's worlds; where this can occur with a great prevalence! And; most notably; it is a study of bullying. And it is easy to see through glib brainless soulless people like that. Though sadly; a troubled beat goes on. But people can write about that! People should write about that. People should expose that! People can make it a better world that way! And marguerite; by her thoughtful words; will always try.
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BOOK FOUR: FLEDGLING SEASON
Cover Foto.
IT WAS an early cellphone camera; of no resolution! But there he was; sitting right in front of me; and looking at me! As i stepped out the front door one morning; meaning to look for the mail. He captivated us the rest of the day; and i am sure he will you too.🎋
Verbatim.
SHE RESISTS the temptation to name him; as she is well-inclined to do; with all adorable small fuzzy things. Or feathered things. Or well then; small feathered and fuzzy things.-From Fledgling Season by marguerite bloem.🎋
Commentario.
HERE IS a celebration of a dear fleeting friend; who sat on their porch rail one day.-One sweet small fledgling baby crow.-As two mamas; one human; and one crow; faithfully lingered to watch over him. (Well; her boy and her husband were there too!) And so; they each kept a watch.
You do what you have to!🎋🎋
BOOK FIVE: SONG SONG BLUE
Paperback; 4.25 x 6.875; 29 pages.
A small gentle reverie.
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Cover Foto.
IT WAS a new rose; on a chilly early spring morning; that captivated me; as i waited for my coffee water to boil. I am in love.-With old houses; old wood; old window frames.-And beautiful gently unfurling roses. It was an evocative; nostalgic image for me. Our democracy was in decline; and i was deeply longing for it not to be. I was looking for comfort; home.🎋
Verbatim.
MY BLUE is a rich optimistic vibrant blue; that is warmed with a lovely bit of gold too! Of sunshine perhaps; or marigolds.-I love marigolds; do you? From Song Song Blue by marguerite bloem.🎋
Commentario.
WELL. The new administration has put a bug in Marguerite's bonnet! So; some of her subsequent books perhaps; will be to work those bugs out! Here is one of her small gentle story cards. And perhaps; a dear small gift book too.
Of the sad sad political song we are all singing today. From one democratic mama; whose heart will remain true blue.-And; she will sing her beautiful song too! Give this sweet small book to a friend perhaps! Who maybe feels as you do! Singing is always better then.-With five; ten; one hundred; one thousand! Or even then; just two. Do-re-mi; what range are you; what key are you?!
Marguerite is joyfully; top to bottom; ever in the key of true blue. This is an innocent book; in a world that is growing very dark. You have to get away sometimes.-To keep the dream of life alive. You have to get away sometimes. And you have to sing your own song too.🎋🎋
BOOK SIX: THE WAY OF THE GOAT
Paperback; 6x9; 37 pages.
Two small quirky chapters.
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Cover Foto.
YES; it is me! On a journey through the countryside with my husband; where we stopped for this beautiful barn.-I am in love with barns! When i was growing up in California; i always told everyone i wanted to live in a barn; and now; people are doing that! And now; even as we grow old; i still sometimes long for that. Or at least; to live somewhere in the countryside.
If you have read my book; The Honor Code; you will see; that the city has grown mean for me! And i would just like to quietly write; and walk. Or; drive to the country store; and maybe; ride a pony!🎋
Verbatim.
THERE WAS a stupid new word about that made fun of Miss Margaux and her people. It was a taunting; mocking; deeply offensive word. And Miss Margaux had never heard of that before!-Of a time when a country; or a leader; would simply; plainly; and flat out mock people; insult people! Sadly then; from The Way of the Goat by marguerite bloem.🎋
Commentario.
THIS COULD BE another dear small gift book perhaps! For its dear wonderful quirky nature; and wonderful curiosity. Where Miss Margaux will tell her quite necessary tale.-Of politics; and goats! And it seems; quite inevitably; another gentle resistance then; against the troubling rule of the day.
Miss Margaux must throw off!-A common insult flung about; by the ruling politicos of her time; regarding the state of being woke.-But no! She must assert her true identity here. They just got a coupla letters wrong; but Miss Margaux is the GOAT!-Not woke. But maybe; they would get it by the by. She would not wait for that; but hopefully; maybe. You probably are the goat too.
Just a whole lotta really cool goats. Sounds like a pretty good world to her! You are welcome here too. You could even be a chicken if you want. Or a cow; or a pig; or a visiting moose!? Maybe you would like to see the Palouse.🎋🎋
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Is under Copyright 2025; by yours truly;
Miss Marguerite Bloem! Thank you.🎋
TWILIGT TIME; to dream awhile;
in veils of deepening blue.
Sing the Moody Blues;
one of the coolest groups
off all time.
And time to read a book!
Says Marguerite Bloem.
Who is sometimes moody;
sometimes blue. But mostly;
just writing books for you!
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