Brian Beise (Books Ningmaster)'s Blog – February 2012 Archive (2)
Happy Birthday, Father Dickens
Listen Jena, two hundred years ago today, Charles Dickens was born. Nevermind the influence he has had on so many writers: his body of work alone could keep a reader happy and haunted and amused and outraged for years and years. If you’ve got five minutes, read the first few paragraphs of Great Expectations below, and see if you’re not clamoring by the end. You can read the whole…
ContinueAdded by Brian Beise (Books Ningmaster) on February 7, 2012 at 11:30am — 2 Comments
The time of insects to the time of stars
Wislawa Szymborska, a polish poet and Nobel Prize winner, died yesterday at eighty-eight years old. She was one of the greatest poets I've read, and everyone should benefit from her work. If you read nothing else this week, Jena, read the poem below, and Szymborska's…
Added by Brian Beise (Books Ningmaster) on February 2, 2012 at 9:44am — 1 Comment
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