Movies of the 1930's About Parole: Convict's Code DVD (1939) Starring Robert Kent, Anne Nagel, Sidney Blackmer, Victor Kilian, Norman Willis, Maude Eburne, Ben Alexander, Pat Flaherty, Carleton Young, Howard Hickman, Joan Barclay, and Harry Strang.
Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Stuart Greenhouse gives Disappears in the Rain a big thumbs up too. How about you? And I'm right there with him about the amazing Kate Greenstreet, whose blog I still miss and whose The Last 4 Things is top of my bookbuying list. And Ana's book I'm looking forward to, too. *** I wrote a poem yesterday for an old friend's 60th birthday. It was fun to write something fun -- rhyming couplets, inside jokes,...
litwindowpane (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
Friday, September 18The Writer's CenterLefcowitz Theatre4508 Walsh StreetBethesda, MD7:30pm - 9:30pm Poet Suzanne Frischkorn reads her first full-length book, Lit Windowpane. She is joined by Neil Smith, who reads from Bang Crunch, his debut collection of short stories. Howard Norman will introduce the emerging writers.Suzanne Frischkorn is the author of five chapbooks, including American
The Year of Readers (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
The book that inspired my charity choice: The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton . The author was kind enough to stop by my blog and thank me. Books read to date: 70 Those reviewed: Ben, In the World by Doris Lessing The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing Becoming Abigail by Chris Abani Ex-Cottagers in Love by J. M. Kearns The Echo Maker by Richard Powers The Disappeared by Kim Echlin The Blue Fox by Sjon...
The President and Vice President of the Methodist... (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Hilary Price - being presented with her long service certificate as organist at my home church in Monton Eccles (above) Heidi Cottrell and Andrew Upham of the British Methodist Youth Choir who performed at Patricroft and Monton in the Salford Circuit (below) Launch of the OUTCOME' new book and study guide 'And it can be' at Chelsea Methodist Church John- Howard Norman standing on the Wesley stone at...
In Spring It Is the Dawn (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Happy Canada Day! It's actually already Thursday here in Japan but it's still July 1st in Canada, and my home country is 142 years old today. Hmm...we should've had some cake. :P It's also the last day of the 2nd Canadian Book Challenge, eh? The goal was to read 13 books (the number of provinces and territories) over the period of a year. I was behind in my reading for the challenge so I mostly focused...
In Spring It Is the Dawn (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
by Howard Norman Fiction, 1998 Picador, mm pb, 309 p. Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1938. Orphaned at the age of nine by a Zeppelin crash, DeFoe Russet grew up in a hotel under the care of his magnetic Uncle Edward. Now thirty, DeFoe works with Edward as a guard in Halifax’s three-room Glace Museum. By night, DeFoe spends his time trying to keep the affection of Imogen Linny, the young caretaker of the...
In Spring It Is the Dawn (Free subscription) | 06/07/2009
This was quite a busy week as the packing got into full swing. It's amazing how much stuff we've squeezed into our current place! Except for a few stragglers, I've pretty much finished packing my books, all 28, or was it 29 boxes! I sure don't envy the moving guys having to lug all those heavy boxes up and down the stairs! The boys have been having fun though playing on the empty bookshelves and jumping...
In Spring It Is the Dawn (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
I spent a couple of hours reading this afternoon and finished up The Museum Guard by Howard Norman. It was interesting, but I didn't love it either. Actually, I'm not really sure exactly what I think of it yet, I'm going to have to let it sit in my head for a couple of days first. As for what to read next, I'm leaning towards Looking for Alaska by John Green. I think it's time to find out what all...
Recent Posts at Lightstalkers (Free subscription) | 03/25/2009
At 80 Robert Frank, the renowned photographer of The Americans, will make a rare personal appearance and reveal the ideas and work behind his new book, Come Again, a facsimile reprint of a sketch book he had originally made in Beirut during 1991. At that time, Frank was invited to Beirut on a commission to photograph the devastated downtown of the city following the end of the Lebanese civil war. Together...
Enough to Read (Free subscription) | 02/16/2009
To see my complete 999 Challenge list, go here . Fred Rosen. Body Dump Jack Olsen. Climb Up to Hell Sir Francis Chichester. Gipsy Moth Circles the World Howard Norman. In Fond Remembrance of Me Jon Krakauer. Into the Wild Diane Ackerman. A Natural History of the Senses -- finished 2/11/2009 Gary Kinder. Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea Ann Rule. Stranger Beside Me Glyn Williams. Voyages of Delusion...
Reading matters (Free subscription) | 01/31/2009
Thought I'd share my latest haul with you. Here's what's in the pile from the top down: Howard Norman's The Bird Artist (mooched from someone in France -- it's been on my wishlist forever) Agnes Smedley's Daughter of Earth (a Virago Modern Classic, first published in 1929, which I mooched a couple of weeks ago -- this one appealed because the story, about a woman surviving a troubled childhood who...
Enough to Read (Free subscription) | 12/29/2008
In Their Shoes Reading Challenge When: January 1 - December 31, 2009 What: Read memoirs, biographies, autobiographies My list: Michael J. Fox. Lucky Man Howard Norman. In Fond Remembrance of Me Sir Francis Chichester. Gipsy Moth Circles the Earth Augusten Burroughs. Running with Scissors
Enough to Read (Free subscription) | 12/26/2008
Winter Reading Challenge When: December 21, 2008 - March 20, 2009 What: Read as many books as you want My list: Shelley Jackson. Half Life John Connolly. The Book of Lost Things Howard Norman. In Fond Remembrance of Me: A Memoir of Myth and Uncommon Friendship in the Arctic Alice Hoffman. Practical Magic James Alan Gardner. Gravity Wells Chuck Palahniuk. Invisible Monsters Jim Crace. The Gift of Stones...
University of Nebraska Press (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
New this month from the University of Nebraska Press is Northern Tales: Traditional Stories of Eskimo and Indian Peoples by Howard Norman. With tales from the tribal peoples of Greenland, Canada, Siberia, Alaska, Japan, and the polar region, told and...
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