Tag: arts
group name: readanything
|
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 . . . more
|
|
July 21, 2007 08:55 AM EDT --
Author Ross King
A historical thriller set in 1660. An unimposing book seller is sent on a journey to find a missing manuscript. Alternating with the chapters about his search are the chapters . . . more
|
|
September 23, 2006 12:46 AM EDT --
A few years ago while searching for original sources of men who had made the entire journey across Eurasia I bought Cathay and the Way Thither by Sir Henry Yule. This is a wonderful collection of a few . . . more
|
|
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 . . . more
|
|
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 . . . more
|
|
June 25, 2007 06:04 PM EDT --
author: Peter Dickinson
A return to kiddie lit (for readers 11 years old and upwards)
the protagonist is a boy of Welsh heritage living in England. The book opens with his Mum gone on "holiday" . . . more
|
|
July 06, 2007 05:59 PM EDT --
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Although she is one of my favorite authors, this is not one of my favorite books.
Some of the stories had promise, and some were better than others. Yet, as . . . more
|
|
July 04, 2007 07:23 PM EDT --
Author: Howard Buten
This is an amazing book! It is written from the perspective of a child aged 8. He wavers between being highly imaginative and being very concrete in his . . . more
|
|
July 04, 2007 01:18 PM EDT --
Regret, resentment, shame and fear. These are all the feelings that keep us from reaching our potential, our full potential. Family secrets will still affect the members of the family who don't . . . more
|
|
August 13, 2007 03:11 PM EDT --
Author: Elizabeth Hay
This is a very modern book of short stories about women and friendships. This seems to be a new genre: short stories about the same characters from different parts . . . more
|
|
April 29, 2007 08:04 PM EDT --
Author: Linda Crew
Another in the subgenre of kiddie lit- cross cultural stories of young people who have gone through suffering - war or otherwise.
The heroine is a teenager who escaped from Cambodia, . . . more
|
|
May 02, 2007 10:21 PM EDT --
Existentialism in Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms A Farewell To Arms
Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms is a tragic WWI story that deals with love and brings up philosophical questions. In Hemingway's . . . more
|
|
November 28, 2006 06:12 PM EST --
At Cornell, where I am currently an ABD struggling to finish a dissertation, there is a program known as the First-Year Writing Seminars program. These are roughly the equivalent of the various Freshman . . . more
|
|
June 24, 2007 09:49 PM EDT --
Author: Pete Hamill
Interesting that his Manhattan is downtown, while mine is uptown.
This book is a companion piece to Forever - his book about the history of Manhattan as seen through the eyes . . . more
|
|
July 25, 2007 11:35 AM EDT --
Author: Nadine Gordimer
The author is from South Africa. Some of the stories are set there and use the country and its politics as a backdrop, others don't.
There's a long "story" . . . more
|
|
October 16, 2006 02:00 PM EDT --
There is an organization called The Friends of Freddy devoted to the preservation and worship of Walter R. Brooks' beloved pig and his friends on the Bean farm and in the surrounding area. Freddy . . . more
|
|
October 07, 2006 01:30 AM EDT --
This would be fantastic, like a dream come true, yeah?
Until human beings themselves evolve as electronic receivers, readers will select such books as these—the embodiment of civilizations—as . . . more
|
|
July 18, 2006 11:21 AM EDT --
For those not in the know, Mickey Spillane, the creator of the hallmark Mike Hammer character and books, has passed on.
RIP, Mickey. May your books live on in reprints and collectors' editions.
more
|
|
October 29, 2006 11:20 PM EST --
I just stumbled upon a wonderful recording: Orson Welles reading out selections from Walt Whitman's poem "Song of Myself" (or reading out some poems from the poem-cycle "Song of Myself" . . . more
|
|
August 06, 2007 10:16 PM EDT --
Mel Mathews sits in his grandmother's house in his hometown, which he bought. Mathews is a novelist with a handful of books under his belt. Born and raised in the Central San Joaquin Valley, he . . . more
|
|
|
|
