Tag: arts
group name: booklover
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December 16, 2006 11:28 PM EST --
with something for every one...
Deck us all with Boston Charlie,
Walla Walla, Wash., an' Kalamazoo!
Nora's freezin' on the trolley,
Swaller dollar cauliflower alley-garoo!
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April 13, 2007 12:44 PM EDT --
One of my favorite books the last few years has been a fantastic book called The Time Traveler's Wife. Most of my reading tends to a self-selected genre fiction of the sci-fi and fantasy version so . . .
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August 29, 2006 12:32 AM EDT --
I've only read one doctoral dissertation in my life, Henry A Kissinger's "A World Restored" and it was certainly nothing like this one:
It's the PhD thesis that boldly goes where . . .
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October 02, 2006 06:14 PM EDT --
What are you reading these days? Seems to be a lot of activity at Gather.com around the Book it to Bermuda Cruise, sponsored by PRBS and Gather, and for the book review contest that's part of it all. . . .
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June 13, 2007 07:48 PM EDT --
Donating to the library, book swapping, yard sales, and selling on Amazon come to top of mind, but I'd love to know what else is out there.
Anyone have experience or ideas?
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January 14, 2007 12:06 PM EST --
I’ve been sort of foolish, and for that I’m embarrassed, thinking all along that a man wrote Prep. From the first chapter on, I’ve thought to myself, wow! This guy has really gotten into . . .
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July 19, 2006 12:04 PM EDT --
After reading The Grapes of Wrath, I have come to understand why Steinbeck was my Babba's favorite author. An epic saga it follows the journey of the Joad family as they move from dust laden Oklahoma . . .
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August 24, 2006 03:01 PM EDT --
John Steinbeck's "East of Eden" is a fascinating book that traces out story of two generations of two families whose lives are somehow interlinked. We can say that its by chance rather than . . .
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August 30, 2006 10:47 PM EDT --
Naguib Mahfouz passed away at the age of 94. He was the first Arab writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988.
A few years ago, when I was fresh out of college and working for the New Jersey . . .
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June 14, 2006 02:45 PM EDT --
When I was a very little girl my father read to me every night. I had a book of short stories and poetry that I loved. One of my favorites was "Tom Kit." It started out: "Tom Kit was the . . .
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January 09, 2007 10:57 PM EST --
I'm currently reading Prep A Novel by Curtis Sittenfield (sp?), and have to say that I'm enjoying it immensely. It is the girlie version of "Catcher In The Rye" - but much longer and . . .
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August 16, 2007 12:33 AM EDT --
If you want to understand the importance of voice in fiction, read page 1 of Patricia Wood's deeply affecting debut novel, Lottery. I can almost guarantee you will be instantly hooked.
No one . . .
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June 27, 2006 12:08 AM EDT --
Well, it ain't Lonesome Dove. It ain't even Crossfire Trail or any of the L'Amours made into a movie but it had a dignity and a pace to it that was refreshing.
Now if they only believed . . .
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September 20, 2006 06:03 PM EDT --
So comics genius extraordinaire Scott McCloud is currently on tour to promote his new book, Making Comics. (I previously blogged my initial reaction to McCloud's extraordinary and wonderful new book . . .
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March 28, 2007 10:28 PM EDT --
Nietzsche said that with the death of the sacred, Beauty would continue, albeit accidentally.
Mr. John Ruskin, however, set his sights on an earlier age, developing six principles that could be applied . . .
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September 10, 2006 09:19 PM EDT --
One aim of the book I'm currently writing is to weave the mythical yarn of the old myths of Steppe nomads with those of their cousins inhabiting the oases along Inner Asia's trade routes into the . . .
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July 01, 2007 03:43 PM EDT --
What type of book is Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott? It's one of those rare books that makes you want to start reading it all over again just as soon as you finish. . . .
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May 26, 2007 09:33 PM EDT --
Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded malls, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That's just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just this . . .
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August 08, 2006 03:30 PM EDT --
This morning Bob Oakes talked with Lynda Morgenroth about her book Boston Firsts: From the Public Library and the Consititution to the Cream Pie and the Ready-made Suit.
Click here to hear this interview . . .
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April 30, 2007 03:03 PM EDT --
The Sony Reader, some have said, is a solution in search of a problem – that there's no apparent need for this technology and it is, at best, a benefit to a very narrow audience. I would argue, . . .
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Booklovers
Location: of Wonder, FL
Created: Feb 14, 2006
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