The Great Clark Debate Weigh In on Smallville’s Love Quadrangle
Posted by admin
You Smallville fans sure do keep Clark Kent’s love life interesting. As evidenced by my email inbox almost weekly, Clark’s various relationships with Lana, Chloe and Lois provoke some seriously passionate reactions.
To get a little perspective on which romance is which, and why Clark should choose one lady or another, we’re opening up round two [...]
Great Love Stories for Valentines Day
Posted by admin
(01-31) 12:31 PST , (AP) —
“My Mistress’s Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, From Chekhov to Munro” (HarperCollins Publishers, 587 pages, $24.95), edited by Jeffrey Eugenides: In the introduction to this remarkable collection, Jeffrey Eugenides warns readers that good love stories aren’t fluffy, happy-go-lucky affairs. Instead, they “depend on disappointment, on [...]
Author Russell Banks sets new novel near his home
Posted by admin
By Belinda Goldsmith
NEW YORK (Reuters) - American writer Russell Banks set out to be a painter but abandoned his brushes for a career as a writer that has spanned five decades.
Banks, 67, who has published five short story collections, 11 novels and four poetry collections, has been described as possibly “the [...]
Author Russell Banks sets new novel near his home
Posted by admin
By Belinda Goldsmith
NEW YORK (Reuters) - American writer Russell Banks set out to be a painter but abandoned his brushes for a career as a writer that has spanned five decades.
Banks, 67, who has published five short story collections, 11 novels and four poetry collections, has been described as possibly “the [...]
Author Russell Banks sets new novel near his home
Posted by admin
By Belinda Goldsmith
NEW YORK (Reuters) - American writer Russell Banks set out to be a painter but abandoned his brushes for a career as a writer that has spanned five decades.
Banks, 67, who has published five short story collections, 11 novels and four poetry collections, has been described as possibly “the [...]
Children’s books: ‘If children are to become readers for life, they must first love stories’
Posted by admin
There was once a boy brought up with books all around him. There were no walls in the house: just books, it seemed. At bedtime his mother would sit on the bed and read to him - Masefield, Kipling, Lear, De la Mare, Shakespeare - and the boy loved it because his mother loved it. [...]
Jeffrey Eugenides: Enduring love
Posted by admin
A tall, slim, fastidious-looking man with a high, domed forehead
and a moustache and goatee that lends him a distinctly
Mephistophelean air, Jeffrey Eugenides has written just two books in
the past 15 years. The first, The Virgin Suicides, a darkly comic
fable [...]
A S Byatt: Why I love Margery Allingham
Posted by admin
Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a
puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues -
or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful
tale-teller at the end of the book? It is [...]
Children’s books: ‘If children are to become readers for life, they must first love stories’
Posted by admin
There was once a boy brought up with books all around him. There were no walls in the house: just books, it seemed. At bedtime his mother would sit on the bed and read to him - Masefield, Kipling, Lear, De la Mare, Shakespeare - and the boy loved it because his mother loved it. [...]
Children’s books: ‘If children are to become readers for life, they must first love stories’
Posted by admin
There was once a boy brought up with books all around him. There were no walls in the house: just books, it seemed. At bedtime his mother would sit on the bed and read to him - Masefield, Kipling, Lear, De la Mare, Shakespeare - and the boy loved it because his mother loved it. [...]
