Comment Archives: stories: Arts and Culture: Books
Re: “Dolly Parton on why she gives free books to hundreds of thousands of children”
Love the Dolly books! My family and I have enjoyed reading them and every book is as fun as the next.
Re: “Eileen Sisk delivers the first in-depth biography of Buck Owens”
But why wast your time on a old has been country singer that no will remember in 20 years.
Re: “Novelist William Gay remembers his early days as a novelist and explains why he writes better in Hohenwald than anywhere else on earth”
Finally, many governments throughout the world uphold laws that ban homosexuality. Repealing these laws would reduce discrimination against LGBT people, encouraging societies to embrace the diversity of different sexualities. Eradicating homophobia is crucial for improving quality of life for LGBT people, promoting fundamental human rights, and also preventing the spread of HIV. http://www.hadigayri.com
Re: “The ABCs of Rock author Melissa Duke Mooney couldn’t find a rock ’n’ roll alphabet book for kids, so she made one herself”
It was a pleasure and a privilege to help Melissa out with "L".
I'm so happy her dream finally became a reality.
Buy this book!!
Re: “The ABCs of Rock author Melissa Duke Mooney couldn’t find a rock ’n’ roll alphabet book for kids, so she made one herself”
I hope everyone joins together and makes this a national best-seller!
Re: “The ABCs of Rock author Melissa Duke Mooney couldn’t find a rock ’n’ roll alphabet book for kids, so she made one herself”
I am very excited for this dream of my big sisters to come true. Thanks to Neil and a group of Mel's friends that she loved so much to make it happen. This is just one more way for her to bring smiles and memories to so many more than she already has. Miss you Mel Lil Bro- Matt
Re: “Scoping out the literary heavyweights at this year’s Southern Festival of Books”
Yes, that's the artificial landscape of stable normality used to tranquilize the populace. People are actually stored in underground chambers, hooked up to sentient Kindles.
Re: “Scoping out the literary heavyweights at this year’s Southern Festival of Books”
anyone notice the year listed under the picture?
Re: “A chronological round-up of Southern Festival of Books highlights”
I have to agree with the review of Ian Frazier's "Travels in Siberia." It is, indeed, a masterpiece. If this is not the "book of the year" in non-fiction then something is very wrong. I was simply dazzled by how engrossing, amazing and beautifully written it is.
Re: “"She terrified people"”
It bothers me that this book was written by an adoptive parent. Most AP's vie for closed adoption records because they are as vengelful as Tann was because they can not conceive. I am tired of adoptive parents hogging all the attention, and once again speaking about we adoptees and for we adoptees. It should of been an adopted person who wrote this book and trashed that stupid butch baby stealer who FOUNDED closed adoption, while trashing today's adoptive parents who try to keep the adoption records closed. Both Tann and them are just as evil in their own ways. This book is a good reminder to, why GAYS SHOULD NOT ADOPT, THAT A GAY STARTED CLOSED ADOPTION, AND THAT ALL GAYS ARE CHILD MOLESTORS AND ARE USING ADOPTEES FOR THEIR DEMENTED AGENDA. IT IS NOT GOOD FOR HETRO ADOPTEES TO BE RAISED BY GAY COUPLES IN ANY WAY, AND ADOPTEES NEED TO START STANDING UP AND SPEAKING OUT AGAINST THIS PERVERSION BEFORE THERE ARE MILLIONS OF INNOCENT CHILDREN SEXUALLY ABUSED AND DESTROYED.
Re: “Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and T.J. Stiles, author of The First Tycoon, talks about the life and legacy of Cornelius Vanderbilt”
T.J. Stiles will launch the 2010-2011 Vanderbilt University Chancellor’s Lecture Series on Sept. 29. His presentation “The Commodore’s Patriotism: Cornelius Vanderbilt’s Path to the Founding of Vanderbilt University,” will be held at 4 p.m. in Ingram Hall at the Blair School of Music. A reception and book signing will follow the lecture at 5 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-seated basis. Parking will be available in the South Garage at 24th Ave. S. and Children’s Way.
Re: “Words in Air, the new collection of letters between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, captures a friendship in poetry”
A VERY belated thank-you! I discovered your comment only after being prompted to post the article by a wonderful new FB friend.
Re: “Vanderbilt grad student Stephanie Pruitt garners national recognition”
There's a lot I appreciate about Stephanie's story, but most of all, it reminds me that there is not a single best or right path for women to manage decisions about family, education and career. We don't have to try and balance everything or do it all. We do it in our own time and in the order we choose and just enjoy the process. I look forward to reading more of her poems and maybe hearing her read somewhere around town.
Re: “Don’t expect celebrity biographer Kitty Kelley to curtsy to Oprah — or Oprah to care”
"Oprah." Kitty Kelley is one of America's most fascinating authors, driven by a well-developed talent for marketing and promoting “celebrity” books. I commend Kitty for her ambition in taking on very notable figures. Her subjects are the wealthiest and most famous people in our culture: The Kennedys, the British Royal’s, the Reagans, The Bushes, Frank Sinatra, and Elizabeth Taylor. Here she turns her attention to another icon: Oprah Winfrey.
Kitty Kelley's style is readable, as she smoothly and entertainingly weaves her story. Her carefully researched report… is supported with a 4-drawer file cabinet filled with documentation.
Is it possible that the public Oprah is the “real” Oprah? She is very charming and engaging! A beautiful woman too. I certainly have respect and admiration for Oprah. Her wisdom and insight gets to the point and hits home with millions of viewers. I have benefited from all of the self-help, new age advisors that she made available during her career.
Because of Oprah, I learned how to clear away the clutter of life, and pared it down to its most simple form. My internal life now lends clarity to the externals.
The lesson one takes away from all of the Oprah Winfrey shows, is not how to get rid of all the things, but how to find a calm, still center within one's self to maintain sanity, and that need never change, no matter what the distractions might be.
I’ve learned from Oprah how not to be afraid of recalling the stages of my own past, for all personal struggles have validity in one's private destiny.
I deeply appreciate the words and messages of: “Little Gifts of Sustainable Contentment, ” by C.J. Good: That peace within one's self, simplicity, clarity, joy, the validity of each cycle and era of a lifetime, strength, and wholeness are just some of the lessons she imparts. So comforting, so simple, so special. This book would be a great gift for someone coping with loss, or for anyone who celebrates life. C.J. Good's writing is just beautiful. Her words and wisdom flow like warm honey. She is another wise person. Get this book for yourself and everyone you love. It will be a gift of love to them. Jennifer Conroy - Los Angeles
Kitty Kelley's style is readable, as she smoothly and entertainingly weaves her story. Her carefully researched report… is supported with a 4-drawer file cabinet filled with documentation.
Is it possible that the public Oprah is the “real” Oprah? She is very charming and engaging! A beautiful woman too. I certainly have respect and admiration for Oprah. Her wisdom and insight gets to the point and hits home with millions of viewers. I have benefited from all of the self-help, new age advisors that she made available during her career.
Because of Oprah, I learned how to clear away the clutter of life, and pared it down to its most simple form. My internal life now lends clarity to the externals.
The lesson one takes away from all of the Oprah Winfrey shows, is not how to get rid of all the things, but how to find a calm, still center within one's self to maintain sanity, and that need never change, no matter what the distractions might be.
I’ve learned from Oprah how not to be afraid of recalling the stages of my own past, for all personal struggles have validity in one's private destiny.
Other things of value I've learned come from “Little Gifts of Sustainable Contentment, ” by C.J. Good: That peace within one's self, simplicity, clarity, joy, the validity of each cycle and era of a lifetime, strength, and wholeness are just some of the lessons she imparts. So comforting, so simple, so special. This book would be a great gift for someone coping with loss, or for anyone who celebrates life. C.J. Good's writing is just beautiful. Her words and wisdom flow like warm honey. She is another wise person. Get this book for yourself and everyone you love. It will be a gift of love to them.
Re: “Author-physician Abraham Verghese talks about his dual career and his latest novel, Cutting for Stone”
"A little bit of something each day": Sometimes an adage I remember and I hope will serve me well, even in these later years of life. Writing has often acted as a salve in difficult times, and I have wondered if it was possible to work the same magic for others. Vereghese has worked just such magic letting me enter into a world of energetic, involved, passionate life.
Re: “Nobody gets off scot-free in Tim Johnston’s haunting story collection, Irish Girl”
I was in Chicago when David Sedaris pitched this book to the crowd. So, I picked it up. I read a lot of books. Some of them, the impetus is reading just to consume the book. In this case, I've savored every paragraph of the 138 pages. It's written to keep you locked into details, which Johnston brilliantly illustrated through frightening narration and downright brutal characters. I'll certainly read it several more times this summer.
Re: “Don’t expect celebrity biographer Kitty Kelley to curtsy to Oprah — or Oprah to care”
I am into it 140 pages and rate it a B and don't buy unless you have lots of time to kill or you have trouble sleeping.
Re: “Don’t expect celebrity biographer Kitty Kelley to curtsy to Oprah — or Oprah to care”
I was one of Ms. Kelley's "on-the-record" sources (See page 501).
When I brought up Bill Perkins "a man whose name you might encounter in your research," Ms. Kelley responded "Oh, yes, he worked at Channel 5."
I don't remember Perkins as a Channel 5 news reporter, but I very clearly remember him as a Channel 2 reporter, (or maybe it was Channel 8 back then. But whether it was Channel 2, Channel 8, WSIX or WNGE, rest assured it was the ABC affiliate). I "corrected" Ms. Kelley with the qualifier that, while Bill may have worked at WLAC, I wasn't aware of it.
The only mention of Perkins in OPRAH is on Page 67 where Bill is identified as having been a WLAC-TV hire.
I haven't read the whole book yet, but on Page 69 I've found an error/typo/gender bender I haven't seen referenced yet: Jo Coulter is identified as Joe Coulter.
Perhaps this will be corrected for the paperback edition?
Stacy Harris
Publisher/Executive Editor
Stacy's Music Row Report
http://stacyharris.com
Re: “Don’t expect celebrity biographer Kitty Kelley to curtsy to Oprah — or Oprah to care”
I've noticed Oprah gets a lot of criticism when she gets political. She was attacked for endorsing Obama:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article3216586.ece
She recieved a ton of hate mail when she hosted this two day anti-war show during the run-up to the Iraq war, the day after Colin Powell made the case for war:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hoYisRDBWI
She was criticised again for hosting another anti-war show just 48 hours before the war began:
http://townhall.com/columnists/BenShapiro/2003/03/19/the_oprah_schnook_club
She was also attacked for not having Sarah Palin on her until after the election:
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=5736716&page=1
Re: “Eileen Sisk delivers the first in-depth biography of Buck Owens”
I'm sure that's what some halfwit said about Hank Williams.