Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's Monday! What are you reading this week? is a weekly event at J. Kaye's Book Blog to celebrate what we are reading for the week as well as books completed the previous week. Books I Completed This Week The Forest House by Marion Zimmer Bradley Sundays at Tiffany's by James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet Undead and Uneasy by MaryJanice Davidson Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Dare to Die by Carolyn...
Just One More Page... (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Today’s MUSING MONDAYS post is about your bookshelf… Tomorrow I have my first teaching job (yes, I’m sharing my non-book bloggy news!) and it’s inspired today’s Musing Monday. What books did you read while in school? Were there any that you particular liked, or even hated? Did any become lifelong favourites? PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link to your own Musing...
Book Nut (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
by Ann Haywood Leal ages: 10+ First sentence: "Winnie Rae Early followed ten steps behind me the entire way home from school." Support your local independent bookstore: buy it there ! Eleven-year-old Harper Lee Morgan loves to write poetry. It's possibly fate -- her mother named her after the author, after all -- but she thinks it's more that she just has words bubbling up inside her that...
clusterflock (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Film version, To Kill a Mockingbird. Screenplay by Horton Foote. Atticus on the porch, overhearing the bedtime conversation of his children. Jem? Uh-huh. How old was I when Mama died? Two. How old were you? Six. Was Mama pretty? Uh-huh. Was she nice? Uh-huh. Did you love her? Yes. Did I love her? Yes. Do you miss her? Uh-huh.
Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Every week we'll post about what books we have received that week (via your mailbox/library/store bought)! Created by The Story Siren ! For Review (4) Life After 187 by Wade J. Halverson The Secret of Joy by Melissa Senate (blog tour) What Your Mother Never Told You: A Survival Guide for Teenage Girls by Richard M. Dudum 600 Hours of Edward by Craig Lancaster Library (5) The Red Badge of Courage by...
Quillblog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
In the past year or so, a handful of parental complaints have resulted in books such as Philip Pullman’s The Golden Compass and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird being banned in several Toronto-area schools. In an effort to avoid such controversies in the future, the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board, which comprises schools in [...]
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
A Southern Mirrored Window by Motoko Rich Published, New York Times: November 2, 2009 “ The Help ,” a novel about the relationships between African-American maids and their white employers in 1960s Mississippi, has the classic elements of a crowd pleaser: it features several feisty women enmeshed in a page-turning plot, clear villains and a bit of a history lesson. Kathryn Stockett, author...
Opelika-Auburn News (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
I sat through a play last Tuesday night which was based on Harper Lee’s classic book, “To Kill a Mockingbird.” It was an admirable production presented by the Montana Repertory Theater as part of the wonderful series of performances brought to the community by the Arts Association of East Alabama.
The Young Professional Blogs Aggregator (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” Scout Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Gods, this is going to be a sappy one… It’s the kind of sentence that comes right out of left field, right from the author rather than the character. Lulled into a false [...] Related posts: I don’t talk about it often… but I...
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Collin Wilcox Paxton, who played the poor Southern white girl who falsely accuses a black man of raping her in the 1962 film adaptation of Harper Lee's novel "To Kill a Mockingbird," has died. She was 74.
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Veteran actress COLLIN WILCOX has died of brain cancer, aged 74.The star, most famous for her role as rape victim Mayella Ewell in the movie version of Harper Lee's...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Ms. Wilcox worked actively in television and in theater, but she was best-known for her film role as Mayella Ewell in “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the 1962 adaptation of Harper Lee’s novel.
Anecdotal Evidence (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
I've been working with a woman in a high school special-education class whose favorite novel is Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird . She’s read it many times, knows the movie by heart and as a student had a minor role in her high school’s production of the play. She’s been reading the book aloud, a few pages daily, to our students. Some are attentive, at least periodically....
The Pioneer Woman (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
By Mrs. G . Mrs. G. loves books. Her house is filled with them. Her car is filled with them. She even carries a couple of them in her purse. While some people fear heights and great white sharks, Mrs. G’s idea of terror involves being stuck at the DMV or Jiffy Lube without a book to read. Rather than sit quietly and enjoy a moment of self-reflection, Mrs. G. will pull out her Chapstick and read...
Post-Darwinist (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
I haven't been posting recently, due to computer failure. But, catching up, let me begin by talking about recent events in the fight for free speech in Canada. Here's an update on Jennifer Lynch, who - I cannot believe - still works for the federal government. I have no time for any racist, anti-Semite, Nazi, or Holocaust denier, but in her department, people pretended to be such persons (or actually...
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