Book Reviews & The Written Word » Book Reviews http://www.writtenword.com Without the Written Word, books wouldn't even exist. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:56:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How to Make an Animal Speak http://www.writtenword.com/how-to-make-an-animal-speak/ http://www.writtenword.com/how-to-make-an-animal-speak/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:09:35 +0000 Jack Martin http://www.writtenword.com/?p=3533 Charlotte spins her web, Wilbur shows up the other pigs at the County Fair, and young readers rejoice. They don’t even seem to care that animals can’t talk. Why do kids get to have all the fun? After spending week after week writing online book reviews on stories about normal people that speak to other [...]

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]]> http://www.writtenword.com/how-to-make-an-animal-speak/feed/ 2 The Possessed, by Elif Batuman http://www.writtenword.com/the-possessed-by-elif-batuman/ http://www.writtenword.com/the-possessed-by-elif-batuman/#comments Fri, 08 Apr 2011 23:18:27 +0000 Derwood Hunsdale-Talbot http://www.writtenword.com/?p=3264 You might remember that I received Ms Batuman’s book as a Christmas gift, a gift that I had hoped would spur me to actually read a Russian novels. It was up to her: could she convince me to actually read past the opening 18 pages of Anna Karenina, figure out which Alexi is which, and [...]

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]]> http://www.writtenword.com/the-possessed-by-elif-batuman/feed/ 0 10 Reasons I Will Always Love Brian Jacques http://www.writtenword.com/brian-jacques-tribute/ http://www.writtenword.com/brian-jacques-tribute/#comments Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:05:49 +0000 Derwood Hunsdale-Talbot http://www.writtenword.com/?p=3055 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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]]> http://www.writtenword.com/brian-jacques-tribute/feed/ 4 A Good Fall, by Ha Jin http://www.writtenword.com/good-fall-jin/ http://www.writtenword.com/good-fall-jin/#comments Fri, 03 Dec 2010 18:21:04 +0000 Jean-Paul Sparta http://www.writtenword.com/?p=2676 Librarians must hate me. I borrow books on the slightest whim, tattoo them indiscriminately with ink, hang onto them forever and refuse to use a book mark, favoring the “dog ear” method of place-keeping. This latter tendency affords an interesting opportunity for observation, however. For instance, whilst reading Ha Jins collection of short stories A [...]

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]]> http://www.writtenword.com/good-fall-jin/feed/ 4 Giveaway: Ralph Fiennes Reads Rudyard Kipling http://www.writtenword.com/ralph-feinnes-kipling/ http://www.writtenword.com/ralph-feinnes-kipling/#comments Wed, 24 Nov 2010 22:35:43 +0000 Derwood Hunsdale-Talbot http://www.writtenword.com/?p=2639 There is something special about hearing a piece of writing exactly the way the author intended it to sound. That is not to say that all Englishmen sound the same (even though, admit it, they kind of do), but Ralph Fienne’s renditions of Rudyard Kipling’s most famous stories and tales add whatever the British version [...]

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