Showing posts with label U.K.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label U.K.. Show all posts
Saturday, July 05, 2025

"Old Girls and Palm Trees" by Meg Pokrass is a dream

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I am reviewing a new book today but first wanted to outline the pleasures and dangers of late-night reading on the Fourth of July weekend. I...
Friday, October 27, 2023

For book and bookstore fans: "Bloomsbury Girls" probes the inner workings of a 1950 London bookshop

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I can see why a few members of the Historical Fiction Book Lovers Facebook group wrote “DNF” when discussion rolled around to “Bloomsbury Gi...
Saturday, January 08, 2022

Saturday Morning Round-up: Snow arrives -- finally -- and "Stay Close" keeps you guessing

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Saturday Morning Round-up: I’ve been interviewing the recipients of the 2021 Governor’s Arts Awards. These are the awards given annually b...
Sunday, October 24, 2021

Weekend Round-up: Wolf says Meow, gigantic garden seed pods, and Notre Dame Cathedral visits the West

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The garden has been winterized and the bulbs are in the ground. A pretty good year for tomatoes and Purple Podded Pole Beans, which I keep g...
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Tuesday, October 06, 2020

Family Lore: in May 1915, Martin Hett waits in Liverpool for a British ship that isn't sunk by U-boats

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My sister Molly sent me a packet of family letters and documents a few months ago and asked me to make sense of them, see if they came toget...
Friday, January 04, 2019

What it was like to be in England "The Summer Before the War"

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The war was World War I or The Great War, as it was known before there was a second installment to worldwide slaughter. In the village of Ry...
Sunday, December 24, 2017

Catching up on my reading -- D.H. Lawrence's "Sons and Lovers"

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The most recent book I've read by D.H. Lawrence is "Sons and Lovers." It's the only Lawrence novel I've read. Ever. ...
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Saturday, May 20, 2017

Reading a novel of letters -- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

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It takes skill to pull off an epistolary novel. That's one of the reasons I was so impressed by "The Guernsey Literary and Potato P...
Sunday, November 29, 2015

Part II: Mudder's World War I diary

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July 27, 1918, Saturday Breakfast at 5am, can you beat it. Just an hour of so with Peany, my but I hate to see him go; but he promised to s...
Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Part I: Mudder's World War I diary

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Here’s a puzzler that could be on the Travel Channel’s “Mysteries at the Museum:” The object, almost 100 years old, measures four inches ...
Monday, April 27, 2015

Meanwhile, in Liverpool, my grandfather awaits the Lusitania

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In "Dead Wake," Erik Larson tells the story of the last Atlantic crossing of the R.M.S. Lusitania, Larson is a fantastic storytell...
Tuesday, October 07, 2014

The BBC transforms a great Brian Wilson song into a video promo

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Brian Wilson's great "God Only Knows" has been transformed by the BBC into a "for the love of music" video promo wit...
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Sunday, June 22, 2014

Lesson for politicians and military leaders: Never talk to poets

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On Thursday evening, CNN's "The Sixties" aired its segment on the Vietnam War. In real time in Washington, D.C., Vietnam War ...
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Thursday, November 07, 2013

Artist gives life to depression and its cousins

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From the Daily Mail in the U.K.: Toby Allen, a Cornish artist, has imagined what eight common mental illnesses would look like if th...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Author Mary Gillgannon talks about publishing and e-publishing Sept. 20 at the library

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My writing pal, Mary Gillgannon, is conducting a program at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 20, at the Laramie County Public Library in Cheyenn...
Friday, September 07, 2012

Unusual magic show about a British lunatic asylum had its roots in Cheyenne

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"Battered Bride" by Forrest King Today's Denver Westword carried a story about an unusual magic show that had its roo...