Tag: literature
group name: bookcorps
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February 17, 2007 09:38 PM EST --
A child born in the streets of 18th century France, immediately discarded by its mother, sounds a first cry that both condemns his mother to death and . . .
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February 01, 2007 09:29 PM EST --
If your virtually untouched high school copy of The Grapes of Wrath is still occupying the prize slot on your bookshelf, or if you’re still regretting . . .
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February 08, 2007 12:08 PM EST --
The Literary Game and How to Read It
There comes a time in every honest conversation about literature
between students and professors when the students' willingness to
accept . . .
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July 22, 2007 03:40 PM EDT --
Dear Ms. Rowling:
I have finished reading "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" and my mood is somewhat melancholy. It is not that your final tome in Harry's epic fails to measure up to . . .
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April 13, 2009 09:29 AM EDT --
the spectrum of the famous author's racial views
JACK LONDON'S RACIAL LIVES, A Critical Biography by Jeanne Campbell Reesman. U. of Georgia Press, Athens, GA; www.ugapress.org; rhuff@ugapress.uga.edu. . . .
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May 20, 2008 01:26 PM EDT --
How many of the books on your shelves have you read? If you're at all like me, that answer is somewhere between "not many" and "I dunno." And like other self-proclaimed literary . . .
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December 02, 2008 04:40 PM EST --
This is the question that occurred to me in a recent gather conversation I was having with other adults about young adult books such as Twilight, Paper Towns, etc.
Would you ever consider giving a . . .
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October 17, 2007 08:42 AM EDT --
sources and context of the fantasy writings of Tolkein and Lewis
THE COMPANY THEY KEEP - C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkein as Writers in a Community by Diana Pavlac Glyer. Kent State U. Press, . . .
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December 01, 2008 11:09 AM EST --
searching for lost relatives and roots in a popular novel
WALTZING COWBOYS by Sarah Collins Honenberger. Cedar Creek Publishing, Bremo Bluff, VA; www.cedarcreekauthors.com; www.readhonenberger.com. . . .
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March 27, 2007 01:23 PM EDT --
Spring has arrived to our little town. The other day my daughters and I spotted a Robin as we walked and I was reminded of how excited I would get as a little girl to spot my first Robin of the spring. . . .
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January 03, 2007 10:42 AM EST --
Note: I wrote this article in August for an online publication which did not end up publishing it. So, I posted this in early October on Gather.
2006 has been a year of scandals for the publishing industry. . . .
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December 24, 2007 04:12 PM EST --
I may regret announcing this resolution to my fellow Gatherers, but I have officially challenged myself to read 50 books in 2008. Quick math shows that I'm signed up to ingest a book about every . . .
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January 16, 2008 12:33 PM EST --
My esteemed Gather colleague and connection Nick K. recently posted a plaintive piece on poetry appreciation, or lack thereof. "Oh cursed verse, I rarely get ye" cites a few of . . .
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February 11, 2009 03:43 PM EST --
If you're anything like me, then you've always felt one critical thing was missing from Jane Austen's classic novel Pride and Prejudice : "bone-crunching zombie action." I . . .
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January 04, 2007 09:42 AM EST --
Review of Sergio Ruzzier's The Room of Wonders.
Pius Pelosi, the rat and hero of The Room of Wonders, collects many delightful things he discovers in the course of his daily routine: shiny keys, . . .
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March 18, 2007 11:35 PM EDT --
Peter Pan in Scarlet by Geraldine McCaughrean
The Great Ormond Street Hospital was well loved by J.M. Barrie (the creator of Peter Pan) in his life, and well taken care of in his death. . . .
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April 18, 2007 02:34 AM EDT --
Explore outside the margins by visiting one of these literary landmarks, where stories seem to live on.
The Hemingway Home, Key West - Hemingway found his Shangri-la in the luxe Spanish-Colonial home . . .
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August 26, 2007 05:25 PM EDT --
In the world of literature, feminist criticism is not about the rights' of women, but the representation' of women. When the feminist movement was on the rise in the 1950's and 1960's, . . .
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January 13, 2009 02:04 PM EST --
Blatant copyright infringement aside, I'm digging the efforts of this blogger at "Golden Gems" to bring to digital life some classic little golden (and other vintage) books. See this . . .
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October 10, 2007 09:28 AM EDT --
By Anthony S. Policastro
Talk about being specific, I found one agent who is so specific as to the type of manuscript he is looking for, it is as if you were sitting next to him and having a cup of coffee. . . .
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