April 13, 2011 Leave a Comment

A Hideous Beauty – Cavanaugh (2)

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Jack reads selected passages
from his favorite books

Unscripted. Unrehearsed. Unedited. 


TODAY’S READING 

Kingdom Wars: A Hideous Beauty, Jack Cavanaugh, 2007. 

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“Let us suppose that this everyday world were, at some point, invaded by the marvelous. Let us, in fact, suppose a violation of frontier. . . .” — C. S. Lewis

 

TODAY IN FROM MY LIBRARY:

After winning the Pulitzer Prize, Grant Austin returns to his old high school to give a speech and gloat over his success to his old high school nemesis, now a teacher there. Only Grant discovers his nemesis isn’t who he thought he was . . . he isn’t even human.

 

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April 11, 2011 Leave a Comment

Winds of War – Wouk

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Jack reads selected passages
from his favorite books

Unscripted. Unrehearsed. Unedited. 


TODAY’S READING 

Winds of War, Herman Wouk, 1971. 

 

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 Herman Wouk earned his living as a scriptwriter for Fred Allen before serving in World War II. His career as a novelist spans nearly six decades and has brought him resounding international acclaim. He lives in Palm Springs, California.

 

TODAY IN FROM MY LIBRARY:

A romantic scene from a sweeping epic of World War II.

 

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April 8, 2011 Leave a Comment

Space – Michener

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Jack reads selected passages
from his favorite books

Unscripted. Unrehearsed. Unedited. 


TODAY’S READING 

Space, James Michener, 1982. 

 

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 TODAY IN FROM MY LIBRARY:

When questioned about the need to inquire about intimate matters, a researcher explains her approach to writing and creating characters.

 

Interested in reading more? Add Space  to your library!
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Interested in writing novels?

Consider attending a writer’s conference. I recommend: www.brmcwc.com

Purchase a couple of writing books from my friend, James Scott Bell (click on title) — 

The Art of War for Writers

Plot & Structure

Revision & Self-editing

Writing Fiction for All You’re Worth  (Kindle book)

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April 6, 2011 Leave a Comment

The Allies – Cavanaugh

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Jack reads selected passages
from his favorite books

Unscripted. Unrehearsed. Unedited. 


TODAY’S READING 

The Allies, Jack Cavanaugh, 1997.

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The rigid airship, employed so extensively by Germany during the Great War, was perfected soon after the turn of the century by a former Wurttenberg army cavalry officer, Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich Graf von Zeppelin, who had been inspired by a balloon ascent he had made in the United States on August 19, 1863.


TODAY IN FROM MY LIBRARY:

Katy Morgan, an American nurse in training, experiences war first hand when a pair of German Zeppelins drop incendiary bombs on London.

LISTEN to an episode about a first hand account of a Zeppelin raid

LISTEN to an episode about The Puritans, Book 1 in this series

 

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April 4, 2011 Leave a Comment

The Great Zeppelin Raid

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Jack reads selected passages
from his favorite books

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TODAY’S READING  

Unpublished Account of the
Great Zeppelin Raid of 1916, Tom Morgan, 1996.  

 

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This article was begun January 31, 1996, at just before 9:00 p.m. At around that time and on that date eighty years before, two German airships were flying South over Shropshire, and although they didn’t know it, they would soon bomb my town, and almost kill my great grandfather, my grandmother and her sister. — Tom Morgan

TODAY IN FROM MY LIBRARY:

Florence Hill and her sister, Ellen, flee a theater performance when a German Zeppelin drops incendiary bombs on the town of Wednesbury, England.

 

Interested in reading more? Read the complete account.
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LISTEN to an episode featuring The Allies, the book that used this Zeppelin account

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