Scarlett's Buried Secret: The Sad but True Story Behind Margaret Mitchell's ''Gone With the Wind''
Macclesfield Pub Quiz League (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
This week’s questions were set by the Ox-fford ‘C’. Thanks to the Plough Horntails and the Sutton Church House for their help in vetting them. The specialist rounds are: 1. Arts & Entertainment – Weather With You 2. Geography 3. Local Heroes – a different slant 4. History 5. World Heritage 6. Science – In the Kitchen 7. Sport 8. What comes next? As always, our...
Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
234 Unique Books Recommended 33 Different Book Bloggers Contributed 1 List of All-Time Favorites Compiled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J.K. Rowling City of Bones - Cassandra Clare Twilight - Stephenie Meyer The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger Hush, Hush - Becca Fitzpatrick The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins Graceling - Kristin Cashore Outlander - Diana Gabaldon Lord of the Rings...
At Home With Books (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
I'm signing up for the TBR challenge again this year. Here are the rules: * the challenge is to read 12 TBR books in 12 months — you can read those all in one month if you want, or one a month, or however you wanna do it. * you should have a list posted somewhere for others to see * you CANNOT change your list after January 1st, of the current year!!! * you can create an Alternates list of MAXIMUM...
The TV and Film Guy's Reviews (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
As gilded and over-the-top as the Old South itself, the Gone with the Wind 70th Anniversary Collector's Edition Blu-ray release is an impressive tribute to one of the best loved films of all time. The Victor Fleming-directed (at least Fleming gets the credit) classic, based on Margaret Mitchell's book of the same name, looks exceedingly good in high definition, and the bonus items (video and otherwise)...
London, City, Summer? (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
On Saturday night we went back to the Barbican, this time to see the National Theatre of Scotland's co-production with New York based theater company TEAM of Architecting . Architecting is a musical, multi-media time-bending epic peopled with Scarlett O'Hara pageant contests and anarchistic architects. It rockets from the American Civil War and the subsequent Reconstruction to a desolate bar in post-Katrina...
SoundtrackNet (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
It's a timeless classic, a moving and emotional story about the Old South transformed during the Civil War. 1939's Gone with the Wind still holds the record (when adjusted for inflation) of being the biggest box office hit of all time, and with good reason. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Margaret Mitchell, David O. Selznick's adaptation of Gone with the Wind is well known by now, focusing...
Maya Reynolds (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
One of the many obstacles facing newbie authors is that of overcoming their own impatience to be published. Lying in wait to use writers' hunger to see their works in print against them is the vanity press industry. Taking advantage of all the buzz about print-on-demand, the vanity presses have redoubled their efforts to lure unwary writers into paying to have their novels published. Self-publishing...
The Guardian - The blog Theatre (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Highly intellectual and esoteric shows like Architecting run the risk of betraying the real purpose of theatre – the effective communication of ideas Right, embarrassing confession time. To my shame, before Friday night I hadn't realised that Gone With the Wind was a novel. In fact, not having seen the film, the sum total of my knowledge consisted of Vivien Leigh and "Frankly, my dear,...
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Who needs holidays? Make your own with the birthdays of movie people. Parker, Oleg and Vlad the Impaler (as interpreted by Gary Oldman) Today's Birthdays 11/08 1431 Vlad the Impaler would have turned 578 years old today if not for that stake through the heart. To be accurate, his exact birthday is unknown but sometimes he's listed on this date which probably has something to do with... 1847 Bram Stoker...
Interval Drinks (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Architecting , an ambitious exploration of emotional and social repair, is stimulating and exciting and messy and frustrating in equal measure. Devised by the TEAM (Theatre of the Emerging American Moment) in association with the National Theatre of Scotland the piece began life as a BAC Scratch commission in 2006 before a much expanded version drew plaudits last year at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre...
Pete's 'Today In History' Quiz (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
No, this isn't about "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"! I've only just discovered this , but an Australian study has shown that being grumpy is good for you, mainly by allowing clearer thinking! Bah Humbug!! Your Sunday questions are: - What were discovered by Wilhelm Röntgen today in 1895? Author Margaret Mitchell (right) was born today in 1900 and won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for which...
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Press Release from University of Otago DO NOT READ - BANNED ‘ Instruct watch for new novel entitled ‘Butchers Shop’ by Jean Devanny Wellington lady Publishers Duckworth, London, alleged depiction station life New Zealand disgusting indecent communistic’ – Bert (London ). A telegram received from London, 1 March 1926, addressed to Frank David Thomson, the Prime Minister’s...
the irresistible fleet of bicycles (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
The 6th Annual Food on Your Plate Food and Sustainable Living Conference is happening this Friday and Saturday, Oct 9 & 10. It will take place at Daemon College in Amherst, NY, and feature as keynote speakers Howard Lyman, the “mad vegan cowboy,” Dr. Margaret Mitchell of Healthy Transitions and Diane Picard of the Massachusetts [...]
rashbre central (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
I accidentally strayed onto Facebook a couple of days ago, mainly because I was clearing down some of the applications that seem to create repeats of my messages. I think I deleted around forty so-called applications that had somehow installed in my Facebook. How careless of me. Anyway, I also stumbled onto this little quiz from the BBC about books. Apparently the average person has read six of these....
Writing and Ruminating (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
As most of you already know, I no longer do memes. That way, I don't have to worry about tagging people, etc. But I have taken the time to look at the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 novels, and to put the ones I've read in italics. The ones in bold? Yeah - they've all been banned or challenged at one point or another, according to the ALA. 42% of them have been banned or challenged over the years....
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