Some of you will no doubt have encountered Publishers’ Weekly (PW), a company that devotes itself to the book publishing industry. If you’re a collector of first edition modern literature, you may have checked out their list of ‘Best selling books in America’, or the ‘Best selling children’s books in America’ that tracks sales of …
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‘Murica is currently embarked on the biggest educational campaign seen since the 1960’s. As it was back then, there’s real dedication to getting back to the basics with a focus on the three ‘R’s: Rioting, Rebellion & Revolution. There are masses of people taking evening classes that can last all night in the hopes that …
In my earliest years of teaching, I found myself in a local bookstore looking for something to read to my class of ten year olds. I came across a new publication entitled ‘The Twits’ by the English author Roald Dahl. Like many books for the young, it was possible to read right in the store …
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The minute my DDD (dearest darling daughter) sees me waxing about Jane Austin’s books, she’s likely to run screaming from her computer, muttering darkly. When it comes to merit, Ms. Austin is one of the few authors over whom we have never agreed. However, after spending a few weeks with four contemporary novels, a dip …
According to a blog called ‘The IFOD’ (interesting fact of the day) there are roughly 300,000 new book titles published each year in the U.S. and, in 2013, about 2.2 million world-wide. The number of self-published books within this total is harder to pinpoint, but all sources agree that the percentage is noticeable and growing. …
One of the advantages of the current COVID isolation is the abundance of time with which to read. While I enjoy many genres of contemporary fiction and modern writers, I occasionally dip into some of the classics of yesteryear. For many readers, the old ‘classics’ are difficult to wade through if only because of the …
Continue reading Really Old Classics – Boccaccio’s Decameron
I was walking the dog the other day and came across evidence of someone doing a very COVID type of activity. There was a heap of stuff outside the house with a ‘FREE’ sign attached. I’ve noticed a lot of people house cleaning lately and am convinced it’s part of the cabin fever stuff people …
I just finished re-reading Sarah Waters book ‘The Fingersmith’. It’s one of those books that makes me wish I could write something quite so wonderful. Set in England in the mid 1800’s the book is in many ways a tribute to Charles Dickens. If the great English author were writing today, I suspect his prose …
Yes, I'm here, still a captive to COVID19. I'm enjoying the quiet and finding lots of time to to sit and write. I'm actually accomplishing something, even if it's not here in the blog. But, hoping to provoke joy unbounded, I am attaching a bit of my latest opus entitled 'Punto and Me'. 'Punto and …
Josiah Bancroft, who continues to write a series of fantasy books under the ‘Tower of Babel’ series, is an author I’ve mentioned before in relation to the first book in the series, ‘Senlin Ascends’. My dearest darling daughter (DDD) gave me that book a few Christmases ago and followed it up this last December with …
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