Remembering Names (or names easily confused with each other)

[Joy H., Group Founder]

Crazy weather!

[Jim]

About what we're getting, Nina. We've hit 70 & 20 within a few days, so the same spread, just a bit colder. Pretty crazy. It's hard hearing the peepers so loud one day & then struggling to scrape the windshield the next.
:-(

[Nina]

We broke a record yesterday as it was 83 degrees. And who knows what tomorrow will bring. I am reading a fun book my grandson sent to me. Check it out, Jim as you might like it. "Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore," by Robin Sloan. Check it out.

[Joy H., Group Founder]

Nina wrote: "We broke a record yesterday as it was 83 degrees. And who knows what tomorrow will bring. I am reading a fun book my grandson sent to me. Check it out, Jim as you might like it. "Mr. Penumbra's 24-..."


Mr Penumbra's 24Hour Bookstore
There's a review here:
http://theteatimereader.wordpress.com...

[Nina]

I am having such fun reading this book and don't we need that kind of read once in a while?

[Joy H., Group Founder]

Absolutely. They should all be fun of some kind!

[Nina]

Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone. Hope it is a day filled with good cheer.

[Joy H., Group Founder]

Thank you, Nina. Same to you and all!

[Joy H., Group Founder]

I revised my Message #8 above as follows:
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Alan Bennett
(author): The Uncommon Reader: A Novella

William J. Bennett
(author): The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories

ADDENDUM - 7/28/13:

Arnold Bennett
(author):
The Card: A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns
The Grand Babylon Hotel

NOTE: The book, The Card, was adapted to film. See links below:
1922: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218870/?...
1952: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045056/?...
(starring Alec Guinness) (See my review at: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/... )
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As you can see, there are 3 different Bennett's.
Their first names are: ALAN, WILLIAM, and ARNOLD.

[Nina]

"Uncommon Reader" is one of my favorite books,

[Joy H., Group Founder]

Nina wrote: ""Uncommon Reader" is one of my favorite books,"

Yes, it was very drole. Here's my short review.
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

[Joy H., Group Founder]

E. M. Forster - author - Novels: Howards End (1910); A Room with a View (1908); A Passage to India (1924) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._M._Fo...

C. S. Forester - author - Novels: 12-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic era; and The African Queen (1935; filmed in 1951 by John Huston). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._S._Fo...

Finding Forrester - a 2000 film written by Mike Rich...... about a reclusive writer, William Forrester (played by Sean Connery), through whom a black teenager refines his natural talent for writing and comes to terms with his identity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finding_...
THE FILM:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181536/?...
http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Finding-...

ADDENDUM 12/10/15: Doctor Clayton Forrester is one of the characters in "The War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells. Dr. Forrester, whose name is not known until radio and movie adaptations, is one of the terrified characters, being driven mad by fear of the unknown, who attempts to kill the enemy with biological warfare. [From FUNTRIVIA.COM]

[Joy H., Group Founder]

Pocahontas and Sacajawea and Hiawatha

Pocahontas - c. 1595-1617 (born Matoaka, and later known as Rebecca Rolfe) was a Virginia Indian notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. Pocahontas was the daughter of Powhatan ... In a well-known historical anecdote, she is said to have saved the life of an Indian captive, Englishman John Smith, in 1607 by placing her head upon his own when her father raised his war club to execute him.

Sacagawea - c. 1788-1812 (aka Sakakawea or Sacajawea) was a Lemhi Shoshone* woman, who accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition, acting as an interpreter and guide, in their exploration of the Western United States. She traveled thousands of miles from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean between 1804 and 1806. [*Native American tribe]

Hiawatha - A fictional character in the epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha (1855) It is loosely based on the legends. According to the legend, Hiawatha was a legendary Native American leader [a male] and co-founder of the Iroquois confederacy. Depending on the version of the narrative, Hiawatha lived sometime between the 15th and 16th centuries and was a leader of the Onondaga or the Mohawk, or both. (Also see Message #64 below.)

NOTE: There is also the following: "The Song of Hiawatha", a trilogy of cantatas by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912), an English composer of African descent [not the poet], based on Longfellow's poem. Having been greatly inspired by his reading of Longfellow's epic poem, The Song of Hiawatha, (even later naming his own son Hiawatha), the composer decided to set the words to music in a choral work called "Hiawatha's Wedding Feast"...

ABOVE INFORMATION WAS FOUND AT WIKIPEDIA.

[Joy H., Group Founder]

PS-ABOUT HIAWATHA
I found some interesting info about Hiawatha at:
http://pambies.tripod.com/hiawatha.html
The article isn't too long and explains things well.
EXCERPTS:
"...nothing in Longfellow's poem relates in any way to the great Iroquois reformer and statesman."
"The hero of Longfellow's poem Hiawatha is drawn from the writings of Henry R. Schoolcraft, who had confused the real Hiawatha with a Chippewa deity."

ABOUT THE HISTORIC HIAWATHA, the co-founder of the Iroquois Confederacy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiawatha

[Joy H., Group Founder]

See my addendum to Message #62 above.

[Joy H., Group Founder]

I often have trouble recalling the following names (and titles). I find their similarity confusing.

Larry McMurtry (wrote _Lonesome Dove), "Brokeback Mountain" (screenplay), and _Loop Group_)

Ian McEwan (wrote _Atonement_)

Ewan McGregor is an actor. (was in movie: "August: Osage County" with Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts - 2013)

[Also see Message #6 in this topic/thread.]

[Joy H., Group Founder]

I just realized that I often confuse the following poets' names:

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - (wrote "Paul Revere's Ride") https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_W...
and
William Wordsworth (wrote "Daffodils") - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...

[Linda]

Back in the late 70's early 80's I read "Sacajawea" by Anna Lee Waldo. Found it to be fabulous. A paperback with 1408 pages.

Cover states: "The 1,000,000-copy of American bestseller 8 months on the New York Times List!"

I kept the book and it resides in my secretary in the living room!

[Joy H., Group Founder]

I never knew that Sacajawea was a best seller, Linda.
I get her mixed up with Hiawatha.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Son...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacagaw...

[Nina]

I think that is the book I read about S.... and I thought it was very good.

[Joy H., Group Founder]

THREE FAMOUS FEMALE INDIAN NAMES:

Pocahontas -----https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocahontas - Pocahontas (1596–1617) was a Native American notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. Pocahontas was the daughter of Powhatan... In a well-known historical anecdote, she is said to have saved the life of a captive of the Native Americans, the Englishman John Smith, in 1607...

Sacagawea -----https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacagaw... - Sacajawea, was a Lemhi Shoshone woman who helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Hiawatha -----https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Son... - epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow