Just how many times have you been disappointed or wondered at the difference in the translation of a book you read into a film? What prompted me to wonder about that is a book I recently read, which is exactly backwards to what I just asked because I saw the movie way before I ever read the book.
Just how many times have you been disappointed or wondered at the difference in the translation of a book you read into a film? What prompted me to wonder about that is a book I recently read, which is exactly backwards to what I just asked because I saw the movie way before I ever read the book.
New or Old, Good Reads Remain the S...
April 11, 2018 in BooksNew Journalism was a developed in the 1960s and 1970s using the style and devices of literary fiction in fact-based journalism and news writing. In essence, it helped involve the reader in the incident being reported just as if they were reading a novel,...
Remembering the Good Ol’ Days...
March 21, 2018 in BooksHaving ran out of new reading material after finishing the three James Bond books my wifey got me for my birthday, after getting the hint in the recent post I wrote, I was desperate for new reading material. But that truly is never a...
My Irish Eyes are Always Smiling...
March 14, 2018 in Books, HistoryThough not an official national holiday in America celebrated by the government or businesses with a day off with pay, Saint Patrick’s Day is an observance of the heritage and culture of the Irish. It is, however, officially celebrated and observed by the Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion...
Bond…James Bond
January 31, 2018 in Books, Entertainment, MovieThe quintessential catch phrase of self-introduction used by the famous spy character created by the late Ian Fleming.
A Tradition Continues
December 27, 2017 in Books, Christmas, GiftsThis Christmas, my sweet wifey Lynndee kept alive a tradition she began the first year she was in the US, before we even got married: buying books as gifts for me. She’d arrived here in the US just a month before her first Christmas here, yet...
What’s in a Name? It’s...
December 14, 2017 in Books, EntertainmentOnce again, I’ve been wrapped up in reading and watching movies about books I’ve read. And just recently, there was a docu-series on the Sundance Channel, “Cold Blooded: The Clutter Family Murders,” marking the 50th anniversary of the famous movie based on Truman Capote’s non-fiction...
I’m Haunted By the Ghost of T...
November 1, 2017 in Books, Historic Sites, History…and at what better time than the Halloween season to dwell on such a fact. Today being All Saints’ Day signifies that fact that last night was Halloween, beginning the three-day observance of Allohallowtide, the time in the liturgical year dedicated to remembering the dead,...
“O Lost”: The Original...
October 25, 2017 in Books, EntertainmentLast week I shared with y’all the story of some of the locations in my city that appeared in Thomas Wolfe’s iconic novel Look Homeward Angel, and shared a photo of the actual “Angel” that became the title theme of the novel. However, Look Homeward Angel was...
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