HISTORICAL BOYS: Historical Fiction for Men and Women (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
I'm so glad I had thanksgiving. It gave me a full four days to feel all warm and fuzzy inside, so now I can come back to reality on Monday. Today a friend sent me this link . Now, let me preface my ensuing diatribe with the caveat that I usually have a pretty thick skin when it comes to this type of comment. I've been around long enough to know not everyone embraces historical fiction with quite the...
[Eleanor Alberga] TimesOnline.co.uk From The Sunday Times "Passion, betrayal and love in a hot climate. Colombian landscapes and Jamaican rhythm combine in a new opera It’s takes a certain creative chutzpah to rewrite a short story by Isabel Allende, a writer widely regarded as the genre’s foremost living female practitioner, and then ask her what she thinks. It was with some trepidation,...
Through The Leaves, Colchester This is a terrific play. Dating from 1978, Franz Xaver Kroetz's story of the destructive relationship between a woman who runs the local butcher's shop and a factory worker has already had a number of successful revivals, including one that rather amazingly made it into the West End for a brief run. I say amazingly because this is not cosy viewing, rather a gripping...
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disgree that this is a terriffic play
it was as it started out as MEN'S BUSINESS or A MAN A DICTIONARY, by the time Kroetz wrote TROUGH THE LEAVES he'd become p.c. and utterly disgustingly...
I remember when I worked in a restaurant, a young Italian who ate killing hunger after trying in vain to sell expensive clothes for winter, made in italy, wandering the streets of Little Havana in Miami. I remember my Italian friend Mananger and educated in Rome that he cursed: "Do you came to Florida,for what, all we have here are crocodiles, sun, beaches, palms, oranges and restaurants, you're...
The other day, Dr. Charles B. Faulhaber, director of the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, had an urge to hear the sonorous Chilean accent of the author Isabel Allende. So he went to the third-floor reading room and jacked headphones into a computer, and...
I would like to propose a new book challenge for bloggers (perhaps for 2010?), based on "the compilation of the best literature every Latina should check out put together by Latina Magazine: 25 Books Every Latina Should Read" The "25 Books Every Latina/o Should Read" Challenge: The House of Spirits Isabel Allende One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez In The Time of...
Music Theatre Wales at the Linbury Studio In some ways, Letters from a Love Betrayed reminded me of a sort of reverse whodunit. It is certainly not a whodunit in a conventional sense – although someone is murdered, there is never any doubt who did it. I won’t go into details of how I came to compare the two – I don’t want to give the story away. But my point is, when you read...
Without rubbing a reader's face in it Isabel Allende's stories teach valuable lessons about tolerance and understanding. Sponsored Topics: Isabel Allende - Arts - Author - Literature - Little Jean
Opens your eyes to the fact that the world is quite a bit different from what we see every day. Sponsored Topics: Isabel Allende - Author - Literature - Arts - Little Jean
Spain’s Cabinet announced Friday the appointment of Isabel Allende, the world’s most widely read Spanish-language author, to the Council of the Cervantes Institute, whose mission is promoting the language, literature and culture of the Iberian nation. The council is responsible for guiding the Cervantes Institute’s activities, and its members are drawn from representatives of Spanish...
This is the first project for year 2 of BA Illustration. I have to design 6 book covers for 6 of Isabel Allende books. Here is one of them in development. The Zorro book.
Picked up A S Byatt's latest book, 'The Children's Book' a week ago at the local bookstore. I was quite surprised that they had one of hers, but it's not a bad place ('Exclusive Books', in Riverwalk, Gabarone, a South African chain; has the most choice). I did not really mean to buy more books, have quite enough to last me for the moment, but could not resist. I think it may have been listed for the...
A hectic operatic week, three down and two (to be reviewed next week) to go, began lamentably with what I’m in danger of coming to think of as the archetypical Linbury experience. That hideous place, a kind of operatic Nibelheim under the Valhalla of the Royal Opera, has seats so cramped and uncomfortable that I can only think that their point is to ensure one stays awake, as one witnesses another...
I adore and admire Chilean writer Isabel Allende - her passion and writing are just vibrant and things of beauty. Here we learn about La Isla Bajo El Mar - I can't for the English version to hit the US. I wish Isabel had narrated the book trailer:
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