The Written Word (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008
Have you ever seen the blog My Friend Amy? I hadn’t stumbled upon it until today and found that she will be hosting the Book Bloggers Appreciation Week (BBAW) in September. It looks like a fun way to celebrate the book blogging community. As she points out, book bloggers are inherently a wonderful, caring and fun group, so [...]
Quixotical (Free subscription) | 24/06/2008
Via Neil Gaiman’s blog I ended up on the Entertainment Weekly website, where they have posted a list of the “100 Best Reads from 1983-2008″. I like lists (as you may have noticed), so I decided to go through and see how many I could cross off. 1. The Road , Cormac McCarthy (2006) 2. Harry Potter [...]
BookClubClassics.com (Free subscription) | 24/06/2008
photo credit: terren in Virginia Entertainment Weekly is dedicating their 1000th edition to lists, lists, lists… and you know how we love lists! So, here is a sampling of their Top 100 Reads of the Past 25 Years (what they dub “The New Classics“). I list the Top 10, then included only the ones I have read, with [...]
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Mellart (Free subscription) | 18/03/2008
Directed by Anthony Minghella, this Civil War saga addresses romance, friendship and the ravages of war. Based on the Charles Frazier novel, this is a tale of hope and redemption. Cold Mountain captures the horrors of war for both those fighting it and for those left behind. It tells the story of a wounded Confederate soldier named Inman (Jude Law) who struggles on a perilous journey to get back home...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 18/03/2008
Oscar-winning director Anthony Minghella, who turned such literary works as "The English Patient,'' "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and "Cold Mountain" into acclaimed movies, has died. He was 54.
KOMO - News - Entertainment (Free subscription) | 18/03/2008
Oscar-winning director Anthony Minghella, who turned such literary works as "The English Patient," "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and "Cold Mountain" into acclaimed movies, has died. He was 54.
Memphis Reads (Free subscription) | 03/03/2008
Fiction/ Historical Robert Cruthirds reviews THIRTEEN MOONS by Charles Frazier (Random House, 2006) This is the second novel by North Carolina native Charles Frazier, who won the National Book Award in 1997 for Cold Mountain . Most of the story takes place in the hills of western North Carolina. We now know this area as the Great Smoky Mountains, but in the 1820s it was the frontier between the Cherokee...
NewsObserver.com - Local & State (Free subscription) | 13/02/2008
Memoir of racial killing attracts Hollywood A-list.
PaperBackSwap.com (Free subscription) | 15/04/2007
Winner of the 1997 National Book Award A New York Times and Globe and Mail Notable Book of the Year Charles Frazier has created a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished land, a place where savagery coexists with splendour and human beings contend with the inhuman solitude of the wilderness. Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned...
