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Reading the Past (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Sheramy Bundrick, author of Sunflowers (Avon A, October) and proprietor of the blog Van Gogh's Chair , is stopping by today as part of her blog tour. I'll be posting a review of her debut historical novel tomorrow. Visit her website at http://www.sheramybundrick.com/ . Welcome, Sheramy! Van Gogh, Reader of Novels By Sheramy Bundrick Most people know Vincent van Gogh as a prolific artist — over...
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The Burton Review (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Harriet and Isabella: A Novel by Patricia O'Brien Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Touchstone; Reprint edition (January 13, 2009) Originally published January 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0743277778 Review copy from Touchstone via Historical-fiction.com The Burton Review Rating: Synopsis: "It is 1887, and Henry Ward Beecher lies dying. Reporters from around the world, eager for one last story about the most...
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The Burton Review (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
As opposed to celebrating Cristóbal Colón this Columbus Day, who really stole all he could see in 1493, let's celebrate the birthday of Lyman Beecher who was born on October 12, 1775 in Connecticut. 1775 was a banner year for America, when Americans began their fight for independence from Great Britain, thus becoming the United States of America. Lyman Beecher was born . He was an intelligent...
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The Burton Review (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Happy Sunday to everyone! I just completed Elizabeth's Women by Tracy Borman which is a non-fiction account of the women in Elizabeth's life. I enjoyed it, stay tuned for my review in a day or two. As an added feature, you will get a look at my thoughts as I read the book concurrently with Heather at The Maiden's Court , so you will be privy to both of our reactions at the same time. I am now going...
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Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
The conservative Republican columnist calls for a paradigm shift in Black America (hat tip: Black & Right ): "Bigger Thomas' body count continues to grow; 16-year-old Derrion Albert is just his latest, and perhaps most tragic victim. Bigger Thomas is the fictional anti-hero of Richard Wright's classic novel Native Son . Bigger bullies members of his gang, murders a white socialite and his...
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Happy Catholic (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Lacy Dodd, a 33-year-old banking professional and mother of one, knows precisely where supporters and opponents of legal abortion can find common ground. It's on nearly four acres donated by the Benedictine monks of Belmont Abbey in Belmont, N.C., where Room at the Inn, a Charlotte-based pregnancy resource center, hopes to build the nation's first campus-based maternity and after-care residence for...
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Nashville for the 21st Century (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Via Jerry Maynard: On October 15, 2009 at 6:30 p.m., Elizabeth Davidson will perform her one woman play, "Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Literary Soldier." This is a extraordinary play that delves into the American Experience of race relations and human dignity in a multi-cultural, multi-racial community,both past and present. Following the play, Tennessee State Representative Brenda Gilmore will...
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Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 09/19/2009
Alan Keyes: "Jimmy Carter's New Twist On Old South Race Baiting" The conservative activist and America's Independent Party member opines that - contrary to former U.S. President Jimmy Carter's claims - U.S. President Barack Obama's blackness is of African Muslim stock and not black American Christian stock, which its rich heritage of liberty : "So, let's see. Anyone not willing to swallow...
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thus spake drake (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
"Just wait... all hell's gonna break loose." - Gene to Sally So far this season has been dripping with historical foreshadowing, hinting at both the impending assassination of Kennedy and the generational rift that's about to bust loose. So the comment from a very lucid Gene to Sally (in the context of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ) takes on extra weight. Edward...
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Ana the Imp (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
Well, perhaps hate is too strong a word though there are a lot that I find quite tiresome, particularly the feckless Harold Skimpole in Charles Dickens's Bleak House , and just about everyone in George Bernard Shaw's overrated and bloodless plays. But the one character who had the most negative impact on me was Uncle Tom. I used to wonder what black Americans meant when they used the term in such a...
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Paul's Writing Blog (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
The Atlantic is an American magazine with a long and honourable literary tradition. Founded in 1857 by a group of eminent writers that included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Harriet Beecher Stowe, the magazine now publishes an annual all-fiction issue. One of the things that caught my eye in the latest edition ( available on-line now ) was the Editor’s...
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Words, words, words (and phrases) (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
Occasionally one hears the expression that something 'grow'd like Topsy'. I thought readers might be interested to know its origins. In "Uncle Tom's cabin, or Life among the lowly", published in 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe describes the character Topsy - a wild and uncivilized slave girl who Miss Ophelia tries to reform. In Chapter 20 the novel recounts a conversation between Ophelia and...
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Magic Negro Watch (Free subscription) | 08/17/2009
The epithet comes from the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 19th century anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin," and typically it is construed as an insult meaning a black person who acts passively or submissively toward whites. The Tom caricature portrays Black men as faithful, happily submissive servants. The Tom caricature, as with the Mammy Caricature, was born in ante-bellum...
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BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
Two recently published books with some Brontë content: Don't Know Much About Literature What You Need to Know but Never Learned About Great Books and Authors By Kenneth C. Davis ISBN: 9780061719806 ISBN10: 0061719803 Harper Paperbacks On Sale: 7/28/2009 From Homer to Harry Potter, from Chaucer to Charlotte's Web, a compelling compendium of history's most influential literary works and writers....
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Daily Grit by Wes Thorp (Free subscription) | 08/04/2009
Do Michigan politicians-in Congress, the Michigan Legislature and local government have a strong moral compass? What or who is it? There are lots of good people involved in elected offices, but who are pushed and pulled on all kinds of...
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