"New information about Rowlings' estimated $160 million in charitable giving combined with Britain's high tax rates bumped the 'Harry Potter' scribe from our list this year," stated Forbes.

 

Naturally, none of this likely bothers Rowling, who from the beginning has made giving back a priority for her wealth. 

 

“You have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently," she said in a past interview. 

Read the entire article here.

Great Things this Spring (2012)

Great things are happening this spring; Hunger Games movie (March), Game of Thrones television series (April), and Home a new novel by Toni Morrison (May). I intend to purchase a hardcover of Home, for which a Morrison novel is worthy! I love ebooks but not for Morrison; her books, even the one I never completed and didn't particularly like, do not deserve to arrive as an e-book. A Morrison novel deserves the attention of letters on paper, pages to touch and feel between fingers - lifted and turned (sometimes dog-eared), a hard cover with a spine (A SPINE!!!), and after completion, placed on a bookshelf as a permanent home.

And of course, my personal endeavors: I am working on two novellas - one fantasy, one drama/slice-of-life. The stories won't be completed for spring but it's a great thing that I am working on them in the midst of such a great spring (actually it is still winter, but we never had a winter here - it's been spring all along ;-)!

Chocolate vs. Romantic Love

“Romantic love is pure fantasy. It destroys a woman's common sense; there simply is no place for it within the walls of a rational mind. You're better off eating a plug of chocolate!" Rachel in Small Pleasures: Mya's Story”
― Darnishia Bolden, Small Pleasures: Mya's Story

How To Sound Smart When You Write by Tom Maybrier#

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