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Travelblog (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Heading back to the real world today Off to overnight in Frankfurt and heading home on Saturday 11Oct. See final posted Amsterdam pics. I have a few pics that I cannot get off the camera until I get home will post them later. I waited at the Anne Frank house yesterday but the line was 23 hours long maybe next timeAll in all its been a great trip and I did get a book completed John Grisham
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Slog (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
This year's Nobel Prizewinner for Literature is French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, the author of novels like Le procès-verbal and Désert . They declared him "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization ." I know nothing about Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. I have never actually even heard that name before...
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DealBook (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
From Jonathan Glater, a DealBook colleague: Now this is the practice of law. The Citigroup-Wachovia-Wells Fargo legal hate triangle has offered up a screenplay-worthy rush of claims, counterclaims and all-night strategy sessions in law offices high above Midtown Manhattan. There have been hearings with lawyers on the phone from the other side of the world and [...]
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Mad Teacher 3 (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Man reads entire Oxford English Dictionary The Oxford English Dictionary is not everyone's idea of a page turner. But a man has just completed the mammoth, if not bizarre, task of reading the 22,000-page tome cover to cover. Ammon Shea, 37, who has been dissecting dictionaries since the age of 10, spent a year absorbing 59 million words, from A to Zyxt - the equivalent of reading a John
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Bob McCarty Writes (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
When I read a piece in which Barack Obama running mate Joe Biden was described by one source as a “rainmaker,” I just had to read it. After all, The Rainmaker is one of my favorite John Grisham novels. Interestingly, both the description of Biden and the Grisham book revolve around trial lawyers. Here it [...]
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Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Harry Potter author JK Rowling earns so much money that she makes more than the next nine of the world’s top 10 best-selling authors put together, it has been revealed.
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Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Harry Potter author JK Rowling earns so much money that she makes more than the next nine of the world’s top 10 best-selling authors put together, it has been revealed.
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Semicolon (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers. Semicolon thoughts on Americans in war here. The Search for the Red Dragon by James O. Owen. I didn’t manage to review this sequel to Here, There Be Dragons (Semicolon review here), and I liked it very much. Enough that I’ll be looking for the next book in the [...]
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FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Screenwriter Ann Peacock (of The Chronicles of Narnia, Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, and Nights in Rodanthe previously) has been tapped to adapt the 1997 John Grisham novel The Partner. Oscar winning producer Bobby Chartoff will produce the project for a number of new production companies. The book centers on a disillusioned lawyer who steals $90 million from his law firm, stages his own death and...
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dignmore.com (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
"Nights in Rodanthe" screenwriter Ann Peacock has signed on to adapt John Grisham's 1997 novel "The 2 Vote(s)
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Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
The 90s don't get to keep all the lawyer dramas.
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Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
I just found out that my friend Sheila has never seen Pretty Woman, and that after holding out 18 years, she's made it her mission in life not to — just because she wants to see if she can pull...
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Entertainment News - MovieWeb.com (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Based on John Grisham's 1997 legal thriller novel.
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The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
As I’ve written before, one of the best things about being a judge on a book prize panel is that you’re never short of reading material. My UPS man and my FedEx guy are my new best friends, dropping off kilos of goodies every day. Here are the best of the books I received and read just this week: D.C. Noir 2: The Classics, edited by George Pelecanos (Akashic). Wonderful stuff, starting with a
