Tag: arts
group name: booklovers
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April 09, 2007 01:33 PM EDT --
Last spring, while packing away my aunt's belongings at her lakeside cottage, I discovered this letter in a box of old party games...
February 13, 2004
To Whom It May Concern:
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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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June 04, 2008 09:10 AM EDT --
milestone work on Meissen porcelain
THE ARNHOLD COLLECTION OF MEISSEN PORCELAIN, 1710-50 , by Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, With an Introduction by Henry Arnhold and essays by Heike Biedermann and . . .
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February 14, 2007 06:43 PM EST --
I just received the final cover of the UK edition of my book LETTERS TO EBAY. It's quite different from the US version but I like it! Check it out.
UK Cover of my book
Here's the . . .
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June 30, 2007 02:36 PM EDT --
Norton Intro: Sherwood Anderson
Genres: Anderson wrote novels, free verse, prose poems, plays, short stories, essays, and an autobiography.
Themes: "These books reveal three of Anderson's preoccupations: . . .
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June 30, 2007 09:19 AM EDT --
I'm highly interested in becomign a librarian. Thankfully there are many presitgious distance learnign programs out there. I'm horrible at standardized testing, and I hate when schools stress the . . .
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April 09, 2007 12:59 PM EDT --
©2007 Cheryl Kaye Tardif
For any great novelist, defining your cast of intriguing characters is the key to the success of your story. So how do you maintain the image of your characters--both . . .
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June 03, 2007 12:39 PM EDT --
What was the last book you read?
Mine was "The Reader" by Bernhard Schlink
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November 19, 2006 04:05 PM EST --
For a week of my life I lived for little except pouring throught the pages of Emma Goldman's revolutionary autobiography, "Living My Life". It is one of those books you cannot put down because, . . .
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July 23, 2007 04:57 PM EDT --
Even if you think you know Mexico, I guarantee there is magic to be discovered in this book. I find myself at the end of reading Mexican Days by Tony Cohan with a slip of paper filled with notes of things . . .
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February 16, 2008 11:30 AM EST --
In his watershed writing memoir, On Writing , Stephen King discussed his process. Early on, when I'm getting the draft down, I write with the door shut.
I'm active in two very dynamic . . .
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June 30, 2007 12:53 PM EDT --
Norton Introduction: Nella Larsen
Source: Norton Anthology
*Race: Harlem Rennaisance writers were encouraged to write about their African-American heritage, but often attacked if they decided to write . . .
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July 23, 2007 10:12 AM EDT --
"Far away, there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not
reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and
try to follow where they lead."
—Louisa May . . .
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April 08, 2008 12:14 PM EDT --
Natick, Massachusetts, in the greater Boston area--Where else can you round up all these authors and get their autographs and raise much-needed money to support literacy programs?
C'mon, people, . . .
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January 23, 2007 11:05 AM EST --
This collection of poems reads like one poem, a rich, complex set of wise meditations. With courage, vulnerability, and wit, Jan Bowman celebrates creation, probes the aching of age, and wonders . . .
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May 02, 2007 10:29 PM EDT --
Panopticism in The Demolished Man
Foucalt's Penonpticon in "The Demolished Man"
By sigriet ferrer
Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man deals with persistent themes of surveillance and . . .
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June 30, 2007 01:00 PM EDT --
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
* "was committed to art for its own sake, careless of convention, and continually shocking the respectable middle class."
* "the poetry that he had in mind was in . . .
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April 22, 2007 02:10 PM EDT --
from Demian by Herman Hesse:
"Everyone goes through this crisis. For the average person this is the point when the demands of his own life come into the . . .
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June 30, 2007 11:47 AM EDT --
"The Twenties" by Frederick HoffmanHoffman Ch. 8: "Some Perspectives on the 1920s"
I. The Snow of 1929
a. "Not long after October 1929 people began to regret the 1920s, to renounce . . .
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June 30, 2007 11:58 AM EDT --
Source: "Speaking Intelligently" by Joann Brown and Brian Schriner
The book describes communication as "the process of people sharing thoughts, ideas, and feelings with each other . . .
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