Marin .'s Blog: DO YOU LIKE ME? (my first try to show you my face went wrong), page 10
March 10, 2021
March 5, 2021
MARK TWAIN ABOUT KINDNESS
Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
February 28, 2021
February 10, 2021
WE STAND ON GUARD TO READ CONTEST
I READ CANADIAN - February 1 - 17, 2021
Please send your message to fontrealbooks(at)gmail(dot)com with the following information:
- titles of the books purchased
- proof of purchase
and you will be entered to win.
GOOD LUCK!
Please send your message to fontrealbooks(at)gmail(dot)com with the following information:
- titles of the books purchased
- proof of purchase
and you will be entered to win.
GOOD LUCK!
January 24, 2021
THREE GREAT BOOKS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN
1. F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
2. Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway
3. Ernest Hemingway - In Our Time
The above-mentioned titles are out of copyright (January 1st, 2021) - you can use them your own way.
2. Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway
3. Ernest Hemingway - In Our Time
The above-mentioned titles are out of copyright (January 1st, 2021) - you can use them your own way.
January 18, 2021
MOST CHECKED-OUT BOOKS OF ALL TIME - NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
1. "The Snowy Day" by Ezra Jack Keats - borrowed 485,584 times
2. "The Cat in the Hat" by Dr. Zeuss - checked out 469,650 times
3. "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak - 436,016 checkouts
4. "Charlotte's Web" by E. B. White - borrowed 337,948 times
The classic "Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown has a bit of a rocky history.
No doubt, the book would have been among the top three checkouts. A children's librarian named Anne Carroll Moore disliked the story. She disliked it so much when it was published (1947) that the library didn't carry it until... 1972.
A simple literary gem - hidden for 25 years!
Sometimes life is tough not only for authors.
2. "The Cat in the Hat" by Dr. Zeuss - checked out 469,650 times
3. "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak - 436,016 checkouts
4. "Charlotte's Web" by E. B. White - borrowed 337,948 times
The classic "Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown has a bit of a rocky history.
No doubt, the book would have been among the top three checkouts. A children's librarian named Anne Carroll Moore disliked the story. She disliked it so much when it was published (1947) that the library didn't carry it until... 1972.
A simple literary gem - hidden for 25 years!
Sometimes life is tough not only for authors.
January 13, 2021
January 10, 2021
LITTLE DOG
Little dog is a protagonist in LITTLE MOUSE HAD A BIG DREAM - a humourous counting book to be published this year. He is also a proud owner of six yellow balls.
January 4, 2021
MAN IS NOT HUMAN
I found this rather powerful short sentence while reading MAPS OF THE MIND by Charles Hampden-Turner. According to Mr. Hampden-Turner, it is a quote (page 67) credited to Eli Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize winner and author of NIGHT. I searched the Internet, but the closest I came across was "no human being is illegal.' No doubt, 'man is not human' is extremely Herculean but I would be disappointed if Mr. Wiesel was misquoted.
