Book Reviews & The Written Word
Without the Written Word, books wouldn't even exist.
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Valentine’s Day appeal the most to two groups of people: the kinds of people who cry during Hallmark commercials and the ones that have sex every day (sometimes twice). Since last year’s V-day tribute was dedicated to those looking for love and missing out, here’s hoping that the past 365 days of searching have paid [...]
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I’ve mentioned him before. And I am sure I’ll mention him again. How couldn’t I? He is one of the most influential reasons I started (and kept on) reading as a child. Brian Jacques died on February 5, 2011 of a sudden heart attack. I haven’t read any of the Redwall series since 1998′s Marlfox, [...]
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Since JATGP became standard reading fare in the early ’60s, there have been plenty of illustrations and covers and art students attempt to capture the essence of James and his over-sized fruit to choose from. Three, though, stand out as the most iconic of Dahl’s vision. Little known fact: Roald Dahl’s James and Giant Peach [...]
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Daily Lesson comes from the annals of my 1913 copy of A First Book of Composition by Briggs and McKinney – a sort of beginners guide to the “collection and organization of material for expression in long themes and by a study of the more essential rhetorical principles.” Today we learn about slang and a [...]
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