Drinks (Free subscription) | yesterday
Throughout the last couple of years, I feel as though my life in education has been focused on two key areas. Of course, I have branched out the other subjects unwillingly, and even in some rare cases, willingly, but I find myself returning to these two things. Every time. Its the sort of phenomena that can convince you of the existence of God. And not that happy-go-lucky God from the bible. Im talking...
Open a Bookshop, what could possibly go wrong? (Free subscription) | yesterday
So here's the third installment of the big countdown, which takes us through the halfway mark and into the bit... well, the bit that comes after the halfway mark. Here they are beginning in traditional numerical fashion with: 30. Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres 29. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 28. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier 27. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 26....
The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Not in Afghanistan -- in Salinas, Calif. : Counterinsurgency Plan To Fight Gangs The birthplace of author John Steinbeck, and home to sprawling fields of vegetables, now faces one of the worst per capita gang problems in America. Police say the 24 homicides in Salinas, Calif. this year -- all gang-related -- make the city twice as deadly as Los Angeles. Frustrated city officials are now turning to...
Jake Weird (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Interview with Kristen Stewart to Better.tv She allegedly is dating Robert Pattinson, but she makes a comment about as she's perceived as 'dating someone she's not'. "-What is your favorite book? -Kristen Stewart: "I actually have two. I just finished Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, which was really intense. The other is The Stranger by Albert Camus, that was heavy." Source: famouspick.blogspot.com...
Ed Gorman Blog (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Forgotten Books: A Hidden Place by Robert Charles Wilson In the course of a year I usually read twenty or twenty five novels that impress me. Some for characterization, some for story, some for milieu. But I rarely read a novel that astonishes me. When Robert Charles Wilson's first novel A Hidden Place appeared as a Bantam paperback original in 1986, I wasn't sure what to make of it. I received it...
Open a Bookshop, what could possibly go wrong? (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
here's part 1 of the Big Green Bookshop favourite books of all time list. I shall expand on this when I get more time, but let's just cut to the chase shall we 50. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 49. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 48. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon 47. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 46. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 45. Shipping News...
VDARE.com: Blog Articles (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Fox News reports Counterinsurgency Plan To Fight Gangs November 23, 2009 - 2:22 PM | by: Claudia Cowan The birthplace of author John Steinbeck, and home to sprawling fields of vegetables, now faces one of the worst per capita gang problems in America. Police say the 24 homicides in Salinas, Calif. this year –all gang-related– make the city twice [...]
GrogNews (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
We don't normally re-post an entire news story. This one's an exception. It's a touchy subject, and deserves to be more fully discussed. It also happens to affect a town where several GN staffers have lived and have family. Check out how the US military is using COIN lessons from overseas to help law enforcement in Salinas, CA SALINAS, CALIF. -- Famed to readers as the birthplace of John Steinbeck...
US News & World Report (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Dear Mr. Inman: My daughter is reading John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” as I did at her age in high school. I vividly remember seeing on TV in the late 1960s or early ’70s a production of it that followed the novel to the letter, including all the profanity the book contained. I [...]
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
SALINAS, CALIF. -- Famed to readers as the birthplace of John Steinbeck and in supermarket produce circles as the "Salad Bowl of the World," the city of Salinas carries darker renown in the netherworld of California's prisons. Instant respect is accorded any inmate tattooed with the words "Salad Bowl" or "Salis" -- gang shorthand for a city now defined most of all by ferocious...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Colin Firth joined by Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Gambon, Timothy Spall and Derek Jacobi in biopic about reluctant wartime monarch George VI A roll call of British acting talent has been added to the cast list of The King's Speech, a drama about George VI's struggles to overcome his stammer. Already on board were Colin Firth as the reluctant monarch, who was pushed on to the throne after the 1936...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Famed to readers as the birthplace of John Steinbeck and in supermarket produce circles as the "Salad Bowl of the World," the city of Salinas carries darker renown in the netherworld of California's prisons.
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
SALINAS, CALIF. -- Famed to readers as the birthplace of John Steinbeck and in supermarket produce circles as the "Salad Bowl of the World," the city of Salinas carries darker renown in the netherworld of California's prisons. Instant respect is accorded any inmate tattooed with the words "Salad...
A Writer's Desk (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
The BBC recently looked at how reading classic literature can help those in prison from reoffending. From the piece... Mr North says literature also helped addicts and other sick people. He said: "Literature is an incredibly broad thing and heals all of us all the time. "We're interested in how you deliver it in a highly charged way to get a result." Mary Stephenson, formerly writer...
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Today's fresh instalment of Music Weekly features a band who we've developed rather a liking for over the last few months: Mumford and Sons. The London-based four-piece join Rosie Swash in the studio to talk about their place in the so-called "new folk" scene, their love of John Steinbeck and how it feels to miss the top 10 by one place. Singles Club makes a welcome return after last week's...
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sonupt5@gmail.com | 11/06/2009
Complete Info About John Steinbeck | John Steinbeck Mini Profile John Steinbeck was the third of four children and the only son born to John Ernst and Olive Hamilton Steinbeck. His father was County Treasurer and his mother, a former schoolteacher. John graduated from Salinas High School in 1919 and attended classes at Stanford University, leaving in 1925 without a degree. He was variously employed
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