…Most of the great British authors, who published in the 1800s – Dickens, Hardy, Eliot etc. – wrote for magazines, because periodicals paid for submissions and let’s face it, most of us would rather be paid for our work, than not – just saying 🙂 Hence, the need to both write and pay the rent, […]
I am still blazing through my proposed reading list for the next few years, with a few dalliances along the way, of course. For example, I didn’t expect to get two Agatha Christie mysteries for Christmas, so I had to interrupt my reading of the classics to read Murder at the Vicarage. I was also
In looking for a picture of a shell for an earlier post, I happened to unearth our fishing gear, such as it is. When the kids were young, we would often go to the beaches in SC. When it rained, we went fishing. Over the years, we have amassed a sizeable collection of lures and
Conversation during Christmas dinner was varied, however, we did talk a lot about books and movies. Our guest is a great reader and she is reading through the classics, which I have started to do as well. She is currently reading Middlemarch, while I’m reading The Sun Also Rises – probably not a lot in
I have started reading Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. I’m not sure why it has taken me so long to get around to reading it, maybe I was a long time recovering from Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte), which my students invariably called Withering Heights. I’m not sure, if this was a reference to the book
I think that I suffer from “muse swings” as opposed to “mood swings.” I may have mood swings as well, but I too often swing between having no ideas for a post and having too many ideas for just one post. Today I have too many, so here is a list, which you are welcome
I was thrilled to hear that Canadian author, Alice Munro, has won the Nobel prize for literature. I am also embarrassed to say that I obviously didn’t appreciate the one book I read of hers, The Lives of Girls and Women. I’ll read some more. In reading the accolades in the paper, I am told
OK, I didn’t get an idea for a blog today until about 5:00pm, when I decided to read what I had recommended to other bloggers, as good blog topic material and it worked!! I keyed in “video of the day” and was directed to Mashable.com – a site that I usually find very interesting. Fortunately
OK, the title may be a little misleading. I was reading an article this morning about the site “Goodreads.” Apparently one of their blogposts was about books that people abandon – Fifty Shades of Grey and J. K. Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy were the most commonly abandoned books lately, according to the site. I haven’t
Paula Deen isn’t the only celebrity guilty of using the “N” word a long time ago. One of Agatha Christie’s most popular books started out as “10 Little ‘N’s“. It was changed to “10 Little Indians” and finally changed to “And Then There Were None.” Mysterious name change 🙂 I am just about to re-read
