Many thanks to all the contributors in this edition of the Carnival.
Novel
Clark Bjorke presents The Highest Tide posted at I’ll Never Forget the Day I Read a Book!.
Jim Lynch’s first novel is a magical realist coming of age story with a marine biology theme.
Ranjita Patra presents ‘That’s The Life Baby’ – A Perfect Novel for [...]
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“Geisha: The Life, the Voices” is an icon of Japanese culture and custom- the geisha in her role as human work of art and perfect woman.
A hundred years ago geisha numbered eighty thousand; today there is a thousand at most. Luckily, Jodi Cobb can show us- before they disappear- both the ceremonial world [...]
Vincent Van Gogh , March 30, 1853 Zundert, Neth.- July 29, 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise, France, generally considered the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt. With Cezanne and Gauguin the greatest of Post-Impressionist artists. He powerfully influenced the current of Expressionism in modern art. His work, all of it produced during a period of only 10 years, [...]
“I used to wonder why they kept princesses in towers,” the romantic and possessive young officer F Scott Fitzgerald wrote to the Alabama belle Zelda Sayre. Zelda was charmed at first, but quickly noticed that he seemed obsessed with the image. “Scott, you’ve been so sweet about writing,” she replied, “but I get so damned [...]
Writers aren’t exactly people, they’re a whole lot of people trying to be one person.- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The outstanding dominations on F. Scott Fitzgerald were ambition, literature, Princeton, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, and alcohol.
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Sept. 24, 1896.
During 1911-1913 he attended the Newman School, a Catholic prep [...]
I wanted to write an article about Short Stories by F.Scott Fitzegerald, but yesterday I watched a movie “The Curous Case of Benjamin Button” and.. It was so awe-inspiring, so greatfull…
I don’t like films by classical faction, but this one amazed me. “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” which seizes around 25 pages in the [...]
Long before his name became synonymous with the modern legal thriller, he was working 60-70 hours a week at a small Southaven, Mississippi law practice, squeezing in time before going to the office and during courtroom recesses to work on his hobby—writing his first novel.
Born on February 8, 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas, to a construction [...]
Greatest Crime Authors
Patricia Highsmith, author of famous Talented Mr.Ripley, was hard drinker, lesbian, defied social taboos in the 1950’s by flaunting her affair with another woman, her own life was full of dark secrets.
“… She was more beautiful than most other female socialites at the London party, and her handbag was larger. When she opened [...]
How many times in your life have you spent days or even months worrying about something that never happened? We tangle our minds in a web of “What Ifs”. “What might she think” or “What might he do”. This is the trap of placing expectations on the future.
The future is yet unwritten. For us to [...]
Jodi Picoult’s fans will gladly received novel, which explores family dynamics and the intricacies of motherhood, and concludes, as did The Pact, with tense courtroom drama. In the small town of New Canaan, N.H., 33-year-old Mariah discovers that her husband, Colin, is having an affair. Years ago, his cheating drove Mariah to attempt suicide and [...]
Fitzgerald was aiming to show the American dream, with all of its grandness and all of its faults, through the life of Nick and Gatsby. After all the extravagant parties, Nick explains how“an extra gardener toiled all day…repairing the ravages of the night before.” Nick also points out that “five crates of oranges and lemons [...]
Hollywood is ugly, dangerous – and completely magical. No one captured this better than F. Scott Fitzgerald.
“He wrote two very good books,” Hemingway said about F.Scott Fitzgerald in his own memoir A Moveable Feast, “and one which was not completed which those who know his writing best say would have been very good.”
Fitzgerald passed away [...]
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National Geographic’s most expansive and sumptuous photography book ever — a celebration of more than a century of collecting and publishing photographs, with remarkable images from around the world. For more than 100 years, National Geographic has set the standard for nature, culture, and wildlife photography. Now, in Through the Lens, 250 spectacular [...]
In the mid-1970s, an American graduate student in anthropology joined the ranks of white-powdered geisha in Kyoto, Japan. Liza Dalby took the name Ichigiku and apprenticed in the famed Pontocho district, trailing behind “older sisters” bemused by this long-legged Westerner intent on learning their arts and customs. Some time ago I wrote about [...]
Tom Perrotta is best known for depiction middle-class life and consuetudes, mainly on the strength of two films made from his books – the Little Children and the Election. The Abstinence Teacher comes billed as another “scathing” satire, this time about the result of the religious right in American education.
The Abstinence Teacher is not a [...]
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