Monthly Archives: February 2013

Lagniappe

Posted on February 28, 2013 by geraldlively

Most companies get very upset if someone messes with their logo, but Google is different.  It regularly puts its logo through all sorts of gyrations and variations.  The often-innovative Google doodles are generally posted for a day, celebrate birthdays, the … Continue reading →

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Did You Know . . . ?

Posted on February 26, 2013 by geraldlively

Rienzi, an early opera composed by Richard Wagner, is based on the 1835 novel of the same name by Edward Bulyer-Lytton.  As you may remember Bulyer-Lytton is also the author of the 1830 novel Paul Clifford which gave us the … Continue reading →

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Music Notes

Posted on February 23, 2013 by geraldlively

It wasn’t so long ago that black classical musicians and singers were barred from taking part in the musical scene in this country.  As part of Black History Month, WQXR public radio presents a timeline of black classical musicians and … Continue reading →

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Stranger Than Fiction – Spotlight on an Author

Posted on February 21, 2013 by geraldlively

How’s this for the plot of a novel?  A black child is born into poverty in the rural south, somehow gets a degree in anthropology from Barnard College; plays a significant role in the Harlem Renaissance writing plays, short stories, … Continue reading →

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Quiz of the Month – February 2013

Posted on February 18, 2013 by geraldlively

The 85th Academy Awards presentation will take place on Sunday, February 24th, so I decided to see if you can recall some lines from some famous movies that were based on books, and plays.  Here’s your mission – should you … Continue reading →

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I Confess

Posted on February 16, 2013 by geraldlively

I confess.  I’m a bookworm.  I always have been, and always will be.  I can’t deny it because the evidence is in almost every room in my house.  Books.  Hundreds of books on hundreds of subjects.  Books I’ve read, books … Continue reading →

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Talking About Books . . .

Posted on February 15, 2013 by geraldlively

“Serious literature acts like a rocket-booster to the brain. . . . The research shows the power of literature to shift mental pathways, to create new thoughts, shapes and connections in the young and the staid alike.”  Those are the … Continue reading →

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You’ve Got to Read This!

Posted on February 11, 2013 by geraldlively

I invite you to send me a list of your favorite books (fiction and nonfiction), short stories, plays, essays and anything else that is meaningful to you.  I suggest that the list include no more than ten works.  You can … Continue reading →

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An Irreplaceable Loss

Posted on February 7, 2013 by geraldlively

For most of the time that we storytelling animals have existed, we have had no way to publish and copyright the stories we have created.  Even after the printing press was invented, many people still failed to have their works … Continue reading →

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Quotes of Note

Posted on February 4, 2013 by geraldlively

“For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him.  Let him be struch with palsy, and all his members blasted.  Let him languish … Continue reading →

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