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Best Book Covers of 2009

2009-11-21T17:05:01Z

Amazon.com: [link]

Bonham-Carter and Enid Blyton

2009-11-21T15:18:00Z

Watching a bit of "Enid" (Enid Blyton) with Helena Bonham Carter on
BBC, (have recorded it so will watch rest later) I then read an
interview with H B-C where she apparently said that Enid Bylton
was "bonkers and a bad mother".
Enid Blyton wrote over 750 childrens books, plus magazine stories,
there was a time where she wrote an estimated 10'000 words per day.

Jalousie: A Thing of Purest Magnificence

2009-11-21T03:52:58Z

[link]

The Books That Founded D&D

2009-11-20T16:47:11Z

[link]
The Books That Founded D&D
by James Maliszewski
Although it's commonplace nowadays to assume that J.R.R. Tolkien's The
Lord of the Rings was the primary source of inspiration for Dave Arneson
and Gary Gygax when they created the world's first tabletop roleplaying
game, Dungeons & Dragons, a careful examination of the game suggests

"Pirate Latitudes" - Michael Crichton's last blockbuster?

2009-11-20T15:15:18Z

(Wall Street Journal) - When Michael Crichton died suddenly
of cancer last year, his publisher and agent had no idea
that he'd finished another novel, an old-fashioned
adventure tale about pirates in 17th-century Jamaica.
"Pirate Latitudes," due out Tuesday (Amazon.com:
[link] ), seems at first like a major shift

I just shot my Grandma - no really!

2009-11-20T10:08:22Z

Bang! Now that I've got your attention I will tell you for the
last time, my FREE Christmas Giveaway this year is a FREE
paperback copy of BLOODY HAM and a FREE eBook PDF
copy of CAPABLE OF MURDER. Please specify which one
you would prefer.
Sign in to my Guest Book on my Website with your details for

Atwood turns 70

2009-11-18T14:06:54Z

(Yipers.)
Margaret Atwood turns 70 today.
I remember when I thought she was a hottie.

REVIEW: Source: Nature's Healing Role in Art and Writing by Janine Burke

2009-11-18T02:38:48Z

TITLE: Source: Nature's Healing Role in Art and Writing
AUTHOR: Janine Burke
PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin, PO Box 8500, 83 Alexander Street, Crows Nest,
NSW 2065, Australia (November 2009)
ISBN: 978 1 74175 9177 PRICE: A$55.00 (hardback) 432 pages

Reviewed by Ann Skea (a...@skea.com).
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The Seven Basic Plots

2009-11-18T02:08:59Z

...[Christopher] Booker believes we tell stories as a mechanism of
passing a model for life from generation to generation; that in
essence, all stories are archetypal family dramas, and that their core
message is that we must resist selfish evil (Booker doesn’t use this
term, preferring ‘ego-centred’, according to his Jungian framework).

Son of Google

2009-11-17T11:20:06Z

A skeptical review of the Wikipedia,
recently referenced in Arts & Letters Daily.
Source piece is this:
[link]
Writer claims that the Wikipedia has
become the obsession of "comma
editors" and that seminal pieces
are rare.
Yeah, but this was true of the Britannica,

Poetry and Philsophy

2009-11-16T22:53:13Z

The (correct) understanding of physics very much within time and
place. Physics is a particular kind of philosophy.
Metaphysics, or philosophy is, never beyond the
Metaphysics is not philosophy; it is the source and direction of
philosophy. Metaphysics by definition is beyond the scope of time and
everyday knowledge, for it is both the source and direction underlying

"In Cold Blood" - the Clutter murders, 50 years later

2009-11-16T16:26:38Z

(Guardian.co.uk) - Fifty years ago, Holcomb, Kansas was
devastated by the slaughter of a local family. And then
Truman Capote arrived in town . . .
Continued: [link]

Even more hyperbolic than Tom Stoppard?

2009-11-16T14:50:36Z

"THE QUEEN: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern formed such
a cute isometric pair! One did exactly the same as the other.
They were indistinguishable. No wonder they found a
good isometry!"
...from the play "Hamlet and Pfister forms (A tragedy
in four acts)" by Jan Minac (submitted on 13 Nov 2009)
[link]

Death Knell Day

2009-11-16T08:30:46Z

Come the Death Knell Date of October 23, 1941, day of the dictate to
shut down all emigration from Nazi occupied Europe, it had not been to
change things by much. Most any possibility of escape had already
been erased for all but the most wealthy or influential, since the
September 15, 1935 decrees of the Nuremberg Laws, cutting off any

Excuse me!! Would you stop for a moment?!

2009-11-15T16:59:45Z

Excuse me!!
Would you stop for a moment?!
O...man...Haven't you thought-one day- about yourself ?
Who has made it?
Have you seen a design which hasn't a designer ?!
Have you seen a wonderful,delicate work without a worker ?!
It's you and the whole universe!..
Who has made them all ?!!
You know who ?.. It's "ALLAH",prise be to him.