New books for this week: The Boys in the Boat (2013) by Daniel James Brown.
For the Kindle, it's The Trail of the White Mule (1922) by B. M. Bower, the sequel to Casey Ryan (which I read a few weeks ago).
New books for this week: The Boys in the Boat (2013) by Daniel James Brown.
For the Kindle, it's The Trail of the White Mule (1922) by B. M. Bower, the sequel to Casey Ryan (which I read a few weeks ago).
A bat! That's it! It's an omen.. I'll shall become a bat!
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The Long Walk, by Stephen King.
Hot damn, that sure was a short and very interesting read. Expecially impressing if really, as he claims, it was the first novel he ever wrote when he was something like 19 or 20.
Edit : kinda shows that shit ending is sadly nothing new with King though lol. Even back then already...even back then...
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Just finished the Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury. Now I love the short story format!
Now reading on my Kindle Golden Fool (2003), the second volume from the Tawny Man trilogy by Robin Hobb.
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My favorite trilogy of Arthurian myths, Chretien de Troyes (the knight of the cart and other texts), Mallory (le Morte d'Arthur) and White. (the Once and Future King)
What can i say? I love me some classics sometimes.
Authors Beverly Cleary and Larry McMurtry passed away today.
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Beth Hart February 23rd, 2017 Boston, MA Concert Review
"I can't complain. I got to be Jim Morrison for the first half of my life, and Ward Cleaver for the second half." - Warren Zevon.
Reading Dune again after years. I remember not liking it the first time, but I'm really enjoying it this time. I think because I know some more background on everything after seeing a bunch of youtube videos.
New book: [I]The Creators[: A History of Heroes of the Imagination/I] (1192) by Daniel J. Boorstin.
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Just wanted to let y'all know that my favorite author, Ernest Hemingway, will be featured in a multi-part PBS documentary starting on April 5, 2021. This one was produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. My favorite Hemingway novels are A Farewell to Arms and the Sun Also Rises.
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I hated reading Hemingway when I had to in a high school English class. However, when I read one of his books in a college English course, it was much more enjoyable. Go figure.
Also visited Hemingway's house in Key Largo, Florida when I was down that way on vacation back in October of 1989. (I was driving at night down through the Florida Keys when the California earthquake struck just before Game Three of the World Series was to be played at Candlestick Park, and I was having a hell of a time trying to get news in English on the rental car's radio. What few stations that did come through without too much static seemed to be in Spanish.)
Just read The Subterraneans and The Dharma Bums, both written by Jack Kerouac
I'm currently reading Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Brontë
"The Batman is Gotham City. I will watch him. Study him. And when I know him and why he does not kill, I will know this city. And then Gotham will be MINE!"-BANE
"We're monsters, buddy. Plain and simple. I don't dress it up with fancy names like mutant or post-human; men were born crueler than Apes and we were born crueler than men. It's just the natural order of things"-ULTIMATE SABRETOOTH
I was pretty surprised and giddy to find out that pull quotes from reviews I wrote for a couple of books were used in said books.
The legal thriller BY WAY OF SORROW by Robyn Gigl saw the publisher use a small quote in an industry trade ad, then use a longer quote in their official press release and on the various order pages on sites like Barnes and Noble. Then on Tuesday, I saw that the longer quote made the back cover of the hardcover edition.
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Then today I discovered that the paperback edition of the Matthew Quirk thriller HOUR OF THE ASSASSIN, which was published in January of this year, used a quote of mine inside the book.
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Beth Hart - Fire On The Floor CD Review
Beth Hart February 23rd, 2017 Boston, MA Concert Review
"I can't complain. I got to be Jim Morrison for the first half of my life, and Ward Cleaver for the second half." - Warren Zevon.
“We have a saying, my people. Don’t kill if you can wound, don’t wound if you can subdue, don’t subdue if you can pacify, and don’t raise your hand at all until you’ve first extended it.”
I enjoyed the semaphore version.