Start you week off right, with some book-related reading. 10 reasons we still love J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’ Here’s a list to warm you up for the December 21 opening of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Peter Jackson’s film adaptation (Part 1) of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic novel. A Short Defense of Literary Excess Novelist Ben […]
Dashed Presidential Hopes, but a Life Devoted to Liberalism
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Every year, October 20 is celebrated by teachers as the National Day on Writing. But because October 20 this year falls on a Saturday, the big day for celebration is today. This link provides information on teaching writing at all levels, elementary school through college. But the National Day on Writing isn’t just for students.
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Related Post: “Gone Girl”: Forging a Life Story Flynn, Gillian. Gone Girl (2012) Crown Publishing Ebook ISBN 0307588386 Highly Recommended On a July morning in North Carthage, Missouri, Amy Dunne has disappeared. Today is their fifth anniversary, husband Nick tells us. Nick is an unemployed writer who brought his beautiful and brilliant wife
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Here’s some reading to start off your week. Five Smarter Ways to Nurture Reading Sari Harrar has suggestions, based on recent research, for helping children learn to read and to enjoy reading. This one is my favorite: Link the story to their lives. Pause when you read and ask kids how the story connects to their
Chinese writer Mo Yan wins Nobel for literature – latimes.com Chinese writer Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday, a somewhat unexpected choice by a prize committee that has favored European authors in recent years. The Swedish Academy, which selects the winners of the prestigious award, praised Mo’s “hallucinatoric realism,” saying it
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This week’s links. Did You Just Pay Too Much for That eBook? If you own any kind of ereader (Kindle, Nook, iPad or other tablet, Kobo), you must read this article by Shannon Rupp. When she goes in search of a novel published in 1924, this is what she found: So as a consumer on
Today is the birthday of Irish author Flann O’Brien (real name: Brian O’Nolan).
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Today is the birthday of novelist Anne Rice.
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Today is the birthday of American novelist Thomas Wolfe.
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