John Steinbeck: Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962: The Wayward Bus/Burning Bright/Sweet Thursday/The Winter of Our Discontent/Travels w (Library of America)
Pet Connection Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
As a writer on canine topics myself, I’m always on the lookout for a good book about dogs. I have favorite authors I look for and others I tend to avoid, but often I reach for a book because something draws me to it. With “The Wolf in the Parlor: The Eternal Connection Between Humans and Dogs” [...]
Jane Austen in Vermont (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Dancing with Mr Darcy: Stories inspired by Jane Austen and Chawton House Library Selected and introduced by Sarah Waters Honno Modern Fiction, 2009 ISBN: 978-1-906784-08-9 UK £7.99 [I made mention of this book in another post in which Lane Ashfeldt, author of one of the short stories in this anthology [titled Snowmelt ] did an interview for this blog. Ms. [...]
Words of Power (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Cannery Row in Monterrey, California is a poem, a stink and a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream ... Its inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, sons of bitches,' by which he meant Everybody." John Steinbeck, Cannery Row All these people that you mention Yes, I know them, they're quite lame I had to rearrange their faces And give them...
Recently Banned Literature (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
California Classics The Creative Literature of the Golden State by Lawrence Clark Powell The Ward Ritchie Press Los Angeles (1971) [click to enlarge] Works and authors discussed: Anza’s California Expeditions , by Herbert E. Bolton; The Journey of the Flame , by Walter Nordhoff; Death Valley in ’49 , by William L. Manly; The Land of Little Rain , by Mary Austin; The Wonders of the Colorado...
Runs like a gay (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
I may have mentioned that I've been on tour and not been able to get to a computer recently. Or at least not enough to be able to read up on the news and report back. I am therefore writing this in the middle of half term with over three pages of notes regarding news stories that have come and gone over the last month and a half. I'm binning all updates on stories we've already reported on and just...
Yorkshire Soul (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
More Dangerous Fun With Fireworks
Yorkshire Soul (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Vijay Singh's Astonishing Hole In One
Yorkshire Soul (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Doorway with barriers in Assisi.
Isak (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Next week, Barbara Kingsolver's first novel in nine years will be published: The Lacuna, which follows an American boy who grows up in Mexico, works for Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, meets Leon Trotsky, witnesses social revolution in two countries, and becomes a celebrated writer who is caught up in "a McCarthy-foreshadowing scandal fomented and distorted by rabid media," according to The...
Yorkshire Soul (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Pet Owners Are WeirdYes that's right, it is a guinea pig dressed as a dragon.
Poetry Where You Live (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
each of us given special, our own unique gifts used for the Lord October 26, 2009 Ephesians 3:20 book, “Walking with Christ Everyday: 365 daily devotions for men”, http://www.parable.com/parable/item.Walking-with-Christ-Every-Day-for-Men-Devotional.9781583344774.htm Day 296, “Dream Big” read 10/23/09 & Jeremiah 29:11-13 & what was written of me, in May 1978, in the Stevens...
Poetry Where You Live (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
our dreams of life, hope walking into your courts, Lord eternity there October 26, 2009 Ephesians 3:20 book, “Walking with Christ Everyday: 365 daily devotions for men”, http://www.parable.com/parable/item.Walking-with-Christ-Every-Day-for-Men-Devotional.9781583344774.htm Day 296, “Dream Big” read 10/23/09 & Jeremiah 29:11-13 & what was written of me, in May 1978, in...
Poetry Where You Live (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
How do we know when the call is from the Lord How do we know when we should leave our nets and go Where do we turn to discern your plan for us What do we do when others question our choice October 26, 2009 Ephesians 3:20 book, “Walking with Christ Everyday: 365 daily devotions for men”, http://www.parable.com/parable/item.Walking-with-Christ-Every-Day-for-Men-Devotional.9781583344774.htm...
Poetry Where You Live (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
I wonder, what will they say if I speak the words the callings on my heart the steady drumbeat the musing of the voice calling from inside of me What will they say if I speak the words out loud what I feel called to do leading me away taking me into an unknown out of the boat Out onto the waters the waves, splashing on the boat What will they say if I voice my dream out loud? October 26, 2009 Ephesians...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Originally published on 26 October 1962 That gentle Califorman giant John Steinbeck has spent a lifetime trying not to get tagged as a Literary Gent. From the time that "Of Mice and Men" made his name in the thirties he has been wary of any publicity that tried to lift him out of the crowd. But now he has been cornered in perhaps the only way he would not want to avoid – by the award...
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