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Comments (1)Hi, I am searching for the same thing. So far I have found some good info on the university of maryland's cooperative extension service web site. It might have a lot of what you want to know. Good luck!...See Morebook suggestions....
Comments (16)I read mostly nonfiction now (paleo-anthropology, archaeology, etc), but I took 27 literature courses when I was at Rice getting a degree in German/English. I like a lot of 19th Century (and earlier) literature, but I do read modern authors as well. Here are a few of my favorite authors: Thomas Hardy - as a teenager I identified with his tragic heroines, partly because I was living on a farm, and he set his stories in rural SW England or Devon. D.H. Lawrence - especially his short stories Flannery O'Connor - also for short stories, which are frighteningly realistic portrayals of rural Georgia Daphne DuMaurier - novels and short stories, including The Scapegoat, Rebecca, The Birds, etc. William Burroughs - "The Nova Trilogy" (The Soft Machine, The Ticket That Exploded, Nova Express), and The Wild Boys, which was a major inspiration to David Bowie Margaret Mitchell - GWTW - I first read this when I was ten and then read it two more times afterwards William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury and others for a good dose of Southern literature Most of these I read when I was in my teens and early 20s, and I was able to meet Wm Burroughs in San Francisco in the 1970s, but that's another whole story. I also loved Dostoevsky, but he's not recommended for someone with a short attention span, and it is difficult to keep all of his characters straight without taking notes. All of the other authors I listed I found to be fascinating enough to make it difficult to put down their books, and their characters are extremely well developed and engaging. I read mostly as an escape, and reading authors from earlier periods allowed me to enter their world. Wm Burroughs books took me into the future. I mentioned three great authors from the South (and there are many more), as I thought you might relate to them. You might also like reading some of Tennessee Williams' plays. Lars...See MoreI need a Decorating Book suggestion
Comments (15)"Don't laugh, but I got myself a Mary Engelbreit Christmas book, and I think you'd like it because of the layering she does. I just thought she made cutesy calendars and stuff." No not at all, ME is totally not my style, but yrs back I bought her Home Companion book for the vignettes and whimsy. I've always meant to get her Christmas book as well. One of her then homes in St Louis was featured in Trad Home yrs back and I kept the issue, even though it's a bit dated, I still love looking at it and it not cutesy at all. Maybe at some point I'll do a "layered look" from the past post of it at the Home Decoration Forum. BTW,I hope she enjoys the Faudree book....See MoreLooking for children's poetry book suggestions
Comments (8)Is nonsense poetry OK? If so, try Jack Prelutsky. My sister (an elementary school librarian) gave me one of his books when I lamented the loss of my absolute favorite book of children's poetry, the Arrow Book of Funny Poems. :) It contained such classics as Eletelephony ("Once there was an elephant/Who tried to use the telephant/No No! I mean...), Grandpa Dropped His Glasses ("in a pot of dye/and when he put them on again, he saw a purple sky"), When Daddy Fell into the Pond, and so on. Prelutsky's work is similar to these great nonsensical rhymes. Of course, there's TS Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, as well as AA Milne's Pooh poems, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Longfellow. There are several picture books which illustrate single poems as well: for example, Alffred Noyes' The Highwayman illustrated by Charles Mikolaycak, Robert Frost's Birches illustrated by Ed Young... Also, check Inside Out & Back Again, by Thannha Lai. A memoir in verse of a Vietnamese girl whose family fled Saigon in 1975 and ended up in the southern US. It covers her last year in Vietnam, as one of the Boat People, and her first year in the US; she was 10 or so at the beginning of the book. Although it describes her personal experience of the culture shock from Vietnam to the US, it has universal appeal - when I put the book down, I was vividly remembering my own experience starting a new school in a new town when I was 12!...See Morecpartist
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