Water safety and other topics of interest on keep your children safe this Summer.
http://kidshealth.org/en/parents/water-safety.html
Submitted by Jack Batterson
Water safety and other topics of interest on keep your children safe this Summer.
http://kidshealth.org/en/parents/water-safety.html
Submitted by Jack Batterson
These are amazing and had to share the recipe! They are perfect first out of the oven of course but then a few seconds in the micro to reheat any leftovers and they are good to go with a glass of fresh cold milk:) Enjoy!
http://www.thebakingchocolatess.com/peanut-butter-reeses-cream-cheese-cookie-bars/2/
Check out this adorable moose family enjoying themselves in Alaska.
County Fairs are great fun and many are going on now !
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I would bet that very few of the following get taught academically in courses on the novel. They tend not to fit in.
Gerald Hanley – Noble Descents
Alexander Kielland – Skipper Worse
Rebecca West – The Birds Fall Down
Eden Philpotts – Children of the Mist
Henry Adams – Democracy
Brian Moore – The Emperor of Ice Cream; The Statement; The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (the last of these is tough to read because it is such an unsparing depiction of a very bleak life)
Mario Puzo – The Fortunate Pilgrim
Sue Kaufman – Diary Of a Mad Housewife
Kathryn Hulme – The Nun’s Story
Joseph Hergesheimer – Tampico
Jose Maria Gironella – The Cypresses Believe in God (about the Spanish Civil War; with 3 sequels, the last of which hasn’t, I think, been translated into English)
Uwe Johnson – Speculations About Jakob
John Lanchester – Mr. Phillips
George Borrow – Lavengro (continued by The Romany Rye)
Lew Wallace – Ben Hur
Some famous writers have less well known works that are outstanding; somehow they get overlooked:
Dostoyevsky – The Insulted And Injured
Henry Fielding – Amelia
Henry James – The Tragic Muse
Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Marble Faun
There are also some very good unfinished works of fiction by famous writers:
Jane Austen – Sanditon
Alexander Pushkin – DUBROVSKY
Dickens – The Mystery Of Edwin Drood
Albert Camus – The First Man
In concluding, let me purloin some books from the category of popular or genre fiction. You probably wouldn’t want to call them “great,” but I’m very glad that I didn’t miss them:
Eugene Manlove Rhodes – Paso Por Aqui
Robert Cormier – The Chocolate War
Edith Pargeter – Reluctant Odyssey (What am I doing recommending this on its own, when it’s the second of a trilogy? Because I read it on its own.)
Mary Pat Kelly – Special Intentions
John Meade Falkner – The Nebuly Coat
All good mysteries are works that non-mystery lovers can enjoy. They are good works of fiction, by good writers, that happen to be mysteries. They deal with an event that arouses our vicarious adrenalin—the perpetration of evil. Yet they are “entertainments,” as Graham Greene would say. At least the ones I like are.
To me there are three basic kinds of mysteries: romance, naturalistic, and puzzle. In “romance” (in the literary use of the term), you have heroes and heroines outwitting and overcoming villains—and often something romantic does develop, as a bonus to the crime-solving. And it’s always romantic to have a personality of high quality, that people admire, to identify with. In naturalistic works (hard-boiled, police procedural, noir), the emphasis is on bleakness and toughness. Puzzle mysteries are like written-out crossword puzzles; locked-room mysteries are classic examples.
For a mystery to be an entertainment, it pretty much has to have interesting characters and situations and an enjoyable atmosphere. So most good mysteries, in my view, are what I have called “romances.”
Here is a list (incomplete) of mysteries I have liked:
Some comments:
Raymond Postgate – Verdict Of Twelve
Ellis Peters – Fallen Into the Pit
Patricia Wentworth – Rolling Stone (a great villainess)
Michael Gilbert – The Doors Open; Game Without Rules
Josephine Tey – The Franchise Affair
Nicholas Blake (pen-name of the father of Daniel Day-Lewis) – The Smiler with the Knife
Margery Allingham – Dancers in Mourning; The Fear Sign; The Mind Readers
Dorothy Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh – Thrones, Dominations
Andrew Taylor – An Old School Tie
Ngaio Marsh – Night at the Vulcan
Patricia Moyes – Falling Star
Rex Stout – Too Many Cooks
Peter Lovesey – The House Sitter
Dick Francis – Banker; Reflex
Simon Brett – Dead Giveaway (alcoholic actor as blundering amateur detective)
Emma Lathen – Banking on Murder
P. D. James – Unsuitable Job for a Woman
I think Allingham’s Albert Campion is easily better than Sayers’ Lord Peter Wimsey. The only Sayers work that I like very much was finished by another writer years after Sayers was dead.
Dick Francis’s heroes tend to be unbearable—self-pitying and self-absorbed and yet altruistic and ultra-courageous, and obviously made of bones and ligaments of steel, since they survive brutal punishment that would pulverize most people—even Tiger Woods. Yet, at his best he rises above this handicap.
I’ve read several of Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe novels. They seem so much alike that I don’t see much point in reading more than one. I’d be glad to know if there are any others of his that stand out from the crowd.
I have tried several P.D. James novels, but have really liked only the one I listed.
—John Wesselmann
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