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The Critics Scoffed. Nora Roberts Just Kept Writing.
At 73, a titan of the romance world talks about how she redefined a genre that was all too easy to dismiss. Nora Roberts in 2011.Evelyn Hockstein/Polaris It’s no exaggeration to say that the writer Nora Roberts has shaped how generations of people, especially women, think about relationships and sex — not to mention, what…
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Gabfest Reads: Watership Down Gets the Graphic Novel Treatment
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10 Baby Names Inspired By The Novels Of Leo Tolstoy
<!– Back –> 18 Nov, 2023 Abhijeet Sen Sofya- Meaning wisdom in Greek. This is a popular Russian name that is also the name of several characters in Tolstoy’s novels. Masha- Meaning bitter in Russian. This is a popular Russian name that is also the name of several characters in Tolstoy’s novels. Katya- Meaning pure…
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‘The book took me about a decade’: the 2023 Booker prize shortlisted writers on the stories behind their novels
Paul Murray The Bee Sting (Hamish Hamilton) I started writing The Bee Sting at the end of 2017. I’d spent the previous 18 months working on a screenplay and I was aching to get back to the freedom and possibility of a novel. But for a long time I couldn’t decide what to write. I…
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A Shining by Jon Fosse review
One day in late autumn, a man goes for a drive so far into the countryside that he begins to pass no more dwellings of the living, only abandoned farmhouses and cabins. At last, he pulls into a forest and goes down a road so deeply rutted that the car finally becomes stuck. Night is…
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Literary League hosts another best-selling author
I love to read. In fact, I try to read three books a week. Sometimes I hit my goal, sometimes I pass my goal, and sometimes I just don’t make my goal, but I love the places books take me. Perhaps that is why I always get so excited when the Literary League invites New…
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The gift of literature (WITH GALLERY)
The gift of literature (WITH GALLERY) Published 12:00 am Saturday, November 18, 2023 1 of 8 Ryleigh Brown, a third grader at South Point Elementary School, reads along to Charlotte’s Web, as part of the United Way’s Read Across the River Cities event on Wednesday. (The Ironton Tribune | Heath Harrison) Jan Gullett, of the…
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Everyone is an eight-year-old when reading Singlish: Gwee Li Sui on translating Winnie-da-Pooh
All his translations have been published by the linguist Walter Sauer’s Edition Tintenfass, a German press which has published children’s literature in more than 200 languages to date, including endangered and minority languages. Although the books sell well, Gwee owns up to a feeling of “disappointment” when parents tell him they are buying these books…
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City searching for the best book written by a Calgary author in 2023
The City of Calgary is seeking a few good authors to be considered for the W.O. Mitchell Book Prize. On its @cityofcalgary X feed Friday, the city tweeted, “There are 2 weeks left to submit your work of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, children’s literature or drama for the W.O. Mitchell Book Prize.” Last year’s winner was…
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Nature, nurture and the literary connection
Delving into the historical relationship between humans and trees, often romanticised by poets and authors, underscores the intricate dance between human expression and the silent vitality of the natural world. The materiality of books, repositories of human wisdom, is inextricably intertwined with the essence of trees. To honour the tree that provides the paper for…
