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Comments (4)Thank you, Tim, DM, and Bill! Merry Christmas, Gents! As long as the price is right, I think this is a great little book to get. What I really like is how specific the recipes are.... Bill, this woman's brother has flat out said "Come on, marry my sister." I dare say, they really like me. Must be my spicy side :-) Oh, and I'll post some cool recipes! Josh...See MoreLooking for title of definitive Charles Schultz book
Comments (5)I saw a very interesting documentary on Charles Schulz lately, and I can't remember if it said about the dog. Hmmmm. Trying to remember the network...Ah, it was part of the American Masters series on PBS (www.pbs.org), but I don't see it for sale on their site. His name evidently (?) doesn't have a 't' in it. Surprised me! The museum (link below) may also have some info. Here is a link that might be useful: Schulz Museum...See MoreNeed Help with a book title/author
Comments (3)Eureka!! I found the information! From an obit. in the Washington Post June 4, 2011 "Harry Bernstein, memoirist who wrote of childhood of deprivation, dies at 101 Harry Bernstein, who caused a literary sensation when he emerged from anonymity in his 90s to write two devastating memoirs that explored his childhood of squalor, abuse and anti-Semitism, died June 3 at his daughter's home in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was 101. The cause of death was not reported. "The Invisible Wall" drew favorable comparisons to Frank McCourt�s Pulitzer Prize-winning "Angela�s Ashes," about that author's hardscrabble upbringing in Ireland. Reviewing "The Invisible Wall" in the New York Times, William Grimes called it "a world of pain and prejudice, evoked in spare, restrained prose that brilliantly illuminates a time, a place and a family struggling valiantly to beat impossible odds." In "The Dream," Mr. Bernstein's follow-up memoir, he traced his family's move to Chicago in 1922. In reviews, critics described Mr. Bernstein as a storyteller of quiet, heartbreaking power. Author Juliet Wittman, writing in The Washington Post, said of "The Dream" that "beneath the poignant descriptions of places and times past, beneath the rising and falling patterns of these characters' lives, we hear at Wordsworth called "the still sad music of humanity." For much of his life, Mr. Bernstein's writing career was steady but unremarkable. He critiqued and summarized manuscripts for film studios in the 1930s and 1940s once giving thumbs down to Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind" as "just another historical romance." Later, he edited trade magazines and continued to publish articles and short stories. In 1981, he wrote a novel, "The Smile," about a fashion model. It received little attention, although he joked that he knew it sold at least one copy because of a letter he received from a reader. When his memoirs were published, Mr. Bernstein faced some skepticism from critics who said he could not possibly recall entire conversations from his childhood. He insisted he did, as they had been seared into his brain with photographic clarity. As much as he tried to forget the past, Mr. Bernstein did not extinguish the burning hatred he said that he felt for his father, who made his mother's harsh life even worse. She died at 65 of malnutrition in an unheated tenement in the Bronx, N.Y. After her funeral, he never saw his father again. "He wept when she died. That's the only good thing I can say about him," Mr. Bernstein told USA Today. He dedicated "The Invisible Wall" to his mother, "who gave us so much and received so little. Can this book make up for it? Can anything?" � The Washington Post Company...See MoreA Christmas Carol - see the original written copy on line
Comments (4)Fascinating! I'd be tempted to try and find some interesting emendations - I'd love to have tea in J P Morgan's study! - but it's a little impractical for me to get there. My favourite paragraph of Dickens is the wonderful short speech by the nephew:- "There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say," returned the nephew. "Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that -- as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!" I think it's interesting to see from the m/s that the bit about "the veneration due to its sacred name and origin" was an afterthought. I wonder if it he thought about it, and decided to put it in, or whether a reader or editor suggested that he should add it?...See Morekathy_t
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