martes, 30 de marzo de 2010

About Books & Literature: It's Spring. You can tell by the Holidays.

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From Megan Romer, your About Books & Literature Editor
Where I live on the Gulf Coast, it's pretty warm and nice right about now. Not too hot, not too humid, just right. Reports from my family in Upstate New York, though, indicate that spring may not have sprung everywhere quite yet. However, spring holidays abound, especially for those of the Jewish and Christian faiths.

Mitch Albom - 'Have a Little Faith'
Need a little something inspirational for this holy week? Try Have a Little Faith, the latest book from Tuesdays with Morrie's Mitch Albom. It's a book that explores the common threads of faith itself, not religion specifically, through the true stories of two very different men -- a Jewish rabbi and a Christian inner-city preacher. It's a quick read and one that might just put you in the right mood for a religious holiday celebration.

Robert Frost - 'The Pasture'
Regardless of your faith (or lack thereof), if you live in the Northern Hemisphere, you are either joyfully welcoming or anxiously anticipating the arrival of spring. Actual spring, that is, not nominal by-the-dates spring, which arrived last week. This little Frost gem is just a great springy bit of classic poetry, and, like all Robert Frost, there might just be a layer or two hiding beneath the peppy little verse. Have a thought as to deeper meanings? Share it with other readers!

'Twilight: The Graphic Novel'
If you are a typical tween girl (or either one of my full-grown well-educated sisters), you are likely ignoring the outdoors this week, and instead, you've got your nose buried in the new graphic novel version of the vampire sensation Twilight. We know that Twilight fans will love it (there has yet to be a piece of Twilight paraphernalia that has not gone over well with the fanbase, as far as I can tell), but how does it stack up in the competitive world of graphic novels?

New Shakespeare Play Discovered!
And for something that most teenagers will certainly find dreary, it appears that a long-lost play that was rediscovered in the 18th Century (and presumed a hoax, of course) has been asserted by experts to, in fact, be a true work of the Bard himself, and has thus been added to the canon. It's called Double Falsehood and it's believed that it was co-written with Shakespeare's fellow playwright John Fletcher.

 


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