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One of my favorite authors, Italo Calvino, one of my favorite books.
“You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade. Best to close the door; the TV is always on in the next room. Tell the others right away, "No, I don't want to watch TV!" Raise your voice -- they won't hear you otherwise -- "I'm reading! I don't want to be disturbed!" Maybe they haven't heard you, with all that racket; speak louder, yell: "I'm beginning to read Italo Calvino's new novel!" Or if you prefer, don't say anything: just hope they'll leave you alone.”
Author of the world’s longest tag that wound its way all over Manhattan unbeknownst to New Yorkers, MOMO grapher creates new urban maps based on infinitesimal interventions or monumental frescoes. Here in Mons, he has created a fresco in zebra-coloured flat hues.
Location: Rue Cantimpret, Mons, Belgium
Check out this sim. Good for taking photos.
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Authors%20Point/108/76/44
Isis body
Vista Diana head
:: powdermoon :: Kirsty Sweater
Elif Shafak is an award-winning novelist and the most widely read female writer in Turkey. She is also a political commentator and an inspirational public speaker.
She writes in both Turkish and English, and has published 15 books, 10 of which are novels, including the bestselling The Bastard of Istanbul and The Forty Rules of Love. Her books have been translated into 47 languages. She is published by Penguin in the UK and represented by Curtis Brown globally.
Gudmundur Oskarsson, young icelandic writer, who is publishing his first novel this month. The novel is his second book. His first one was a book of short stories.
He asked me to take a portrait for the cover, but this shot was unexpected between takes.
Please no group invites. Thank you for your comments (or favs)!
Per favore no inviti a gruppi. Grazie per i vostri commenti (o favs)!
My roommate's grandson just had the first of 5 short stories published!!!
Background courtesy of Skeletal Mess
Author : @Kiri Karma
Divers 2022 - May
Photos of May 2022
Photos de mai 2022
( Divers albums de photos prisent en 2022 sans sujet precis.
Various albums of pictures taken in 2022 without subject. )
from my book collection
Our Daily Challenge
Born in Torquay in 1890, Agatha Christie became, and remains, the best-selling novelist of all time.
She is best known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, as well as the world’s longest-running play – The Mousetrap. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation.
agathachristie.com
This is by no means a Bookmaker toast.
It is a toast for book-makers, i.e. authors.
Toast with eggsalad, pickled cucumber, chives, Miguel Vergara Striploin from "my" local butchershop and Parmesan sauce on top.
Not bad for a lunch, home alone.
Event attendee Blanca Rosa Rodriguez and author/speaker Philippa Strum with the new book, Mendez V. Westminster: School Desegregation and Mexican-American Rights (http://bbpbooks.teachingforchange.org/book/9780700617197). Photo by Raisa Camargo, Hispanic Link www.hispaniclink.org
~Author Unknown
Food Month Is Almost Over! Are you guys full yet? Only one more day after today! What am I going to do next month? More importantly, what am I going to do with all this leftover food? Oh, I'm just kidding...I ate it all. :(
Microwave Popcorn: On the weekends, once we have our itemized list of errands completed, we like to get back into bed with fresh popcorn & watch old movies. OK, that's a lie...it's usually mindless (but addictive) reality TV like "Jersey Shore" we're watching. :)
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Author : @Kiri Karma
Divers 2021 - January
Photos of January 2021
Photos de janvier 2021
( Diverses photos prisent en 2021 sans sujet reel.
Various pictures taken in 2021 without real subject. )
Author : @Kiri Karma
Divers 2021 - Repas Hautrage
Diverses photos prisent en 2021 sans sujet reel.
Various pictures taken in 2021 without real subject.
Here’s another in my occasional series on books and book things – this time celebrating the joy of listening to classical music in the 1950s.
I first encountered the author, Martyn Goff, when I was a 14-year-old schoolboy. He owned The Ibis Bookshop in Banstead High Street, Surrey, which I visited from time to time.
To me, Goff was already a bit of a celebrity, thanks to this book – A Short Guide to Long Play which he displayed in the shop window in 1957. And inside, he had a record player on which he always played soothing classical music. The sub-title of the book is ‘How to listen to Music on and off the Record’, and the price is 7s 6d.
While in Banstead, Martyn Goff was to become much more of a celebrity when he published several novels, including The Plaster Fabric and The Youngest Director, dealing with homosexual relations, a matter barely spoken of in the 1950s when such activities were illegal and ‘permissiveness’ was 20 years away.
But back to the book in question here. It reads like a long lecture, but in the nicest sense, with lots of amusing asides. Martyn Goff discusses the differences between listening to long-playing records (remember them?) on a ‘Hi-Fi set-up, a ‘pre-war radiogram’ and an ‘E.A.R. portable, electric, 3-speed gramophone’. ‘When I bought mine’ he recalls, ‘the cost was 26 guineas. Purchase Tax increases have raised this figure to 28½ guineas and at the present rate of rising costs, it may be double that figure by the time these words are read.’ Sounds familiar…?
The book is a time-warp, but Goff also discusses in some detail the symphony, the overture, popular composers and many other subjects, all crammed into 125 pages. It’s knowledgeable stuff.
In due course Martyn Goff CBE became not only a well-known reviewer and broadcaster, but also chairman of the National Book League, Administrator of the Booker Prize (a position he held for 36 years) and chairman of Sotheran’s, Europe’s oldest antique and rare book dealer founded in 1761. The bookseller from Banstead became known as ‘the eminence grise of British publishing’ – and his rise and rise to the top of the literary tree all started in my home town.
♦ While you’re here… I have two Galleries that might interest you: a Bookshops gallery and a Public Libraries gallery. Happy browsing!
Look at me. Can you see me? No you do not. You are blind to my foolish charms. I am exposed I lie abashed.I am an errant child, eagerly pursuing the glisten of approval in your eyes. Do you want me? Maybe. But then again, maybe tomorrow. Not today. Your generosity is plenty, your time, a finite commodity. You are soft lips, hard limbs and quiet concerns. To make you laugh is heaven, but not too oft within my reach. You are the author of my night and I a gentle puppet. Lift my arm, lower my face, so as you please so it shall be. So it shall please me. -CSM