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• Time for a Good Movie - Words & Pictures, the Other Son and Magic in the...

  

  Time for a good movie. Well, more than one, actually. I've seen several films in the latest days. The three ones I'm going to recommend here are totally... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2014 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• The Outlander Saga by Diana Gabaldon: Dragonfly in Amber (book 2)

  

  It took me quite a while to make up my mind and read on through Diana Gabaldon's Outlander saga. It took me time since I had decided to stop at the end of book ... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2014 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Lizzy & Jane, a Novel – Interview with Author Katherine Reay

  

  Sometimes the courage to face your greatest fears comes only when you've run out of ways to escape.Hello Katherine and welcome back to My Jane Austen Book Club. Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Christmas Wishes

  

  "The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by bein... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2014 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Blog Tour - Forbidden by Kimberley Griffiths Little

  

  Forbidden by Kimberley Griffiths LittleIn the unforgiving Mesopotamian desert where Jayden’s tribe lives, betrothal celebrations abound, and tonight it is... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2014 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Blog Tour - Rough Around the Edges Meets Refined by Rachael Anderson

  

  Around the Edges Meets Refined (Meet Your Match #2) by Rachael Anderson For Noah Mackie, life is finally back on track. He has a great support system, a promise... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2014 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Book Blast - Daisy Mcdare and the Deadly Legal Affair ( a Cozy Mystery) - Win...

  

  Daisy McDare and the Deadly Legal Affair by K.M. Morgan Welcome to Cozy Creek, a quaint tourist town nestled along the Pacific Coast. Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2014 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Who r u Blog Tour - Author Guest Post: Margo Kelly, Teenagers and the Internet

  

  Who R U Really? by Margo Kelly Thea's overprotective parents are driving her insane. They invade her privacy, ask too many questions, and restrict her online... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2014 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Was Shakespeare a Catholic? Author Elizabeth Ashworth on Shakespeare's Lost Years

  

  In April 1757, men working on the house in Henley Street, Stratford, where William Shakespeare was born, discovered a six page, hand-written document hidden... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2014 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Book Review - Rogue Spy by Joanna Bourne

  

  (by guest blogger and dear friend K/V)The signs were all there: anticipation and the thrill of the hunt (just imagine my increasing anxiety until I was able to... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2014 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• At the Cinema - Torneranno i Prati - Wwi Seen by Ermanno Olmi

  

  Why this movie now? Not only to join the celebrations of WWI 100th anniversary. At 83, one of the greatest contemporary Italian directors, Ermanno Olmi, makes u... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2014 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• " ... They Can't Find Them, They Make Them." at the Theatre: Mrs Warren's...

  

  “People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get u... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2014 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• HAPPY 10th BIRTHDAY, NORTH AND SOUTH!

  

  Can a TV series touch your heart and change your life? Nooo? You can only say that if you haven't seen this one. I would have answered "no" myself before... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2014 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Spotlight on ... Mr Darcy's Christmas Calendar by Jane Odiwe

  

  A novella for the Christmas holidays - Lizzy Benson visits Jane Austen’s house in Chawton, and buys a special Advent calendar in the gift shop, but strange... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Cover Reveal with a Bonus! Discover More About Climax by Christina George (the...

  

  It's finally here, the long-awaited sequel to The Publicist! CLIMAX by Christina George is the final installment in the series. Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2014 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• From Books to Movies - Coriolanus (2011), Two Mothers (2013): Hate, Revenge,...

  

  Among the latest films I managed to watch on satellite TV, two adaptations of literary works: a play by William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, directed and interprete... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2014 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Why i Am Not 'a-mused', Or Am i? Sarah Hawkswood, on Mr Armitage and Her New...

  

  No, I am not Queen Victoria, but the question of muses is interesting. Personally, I associate them with poets of dodgy mental stability and pre-Raphaelite... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2014 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Period & More Period - at the Cinema: a Promise

  

  Germany 1912. Friedrich is a young man of humble origins with a degree in chemistry employed by Karl Hoffmeister, who immediately understood the character and... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2014 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Austen on Stage: Pride and Prejudice with 2 Actors - Interview with Two Bit...

  

  Hello Johanna and welcome at My Jane Austen Book Club! First of all congratulations on your excellent work in this extraordinary adaptation of Pride and... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Period & More Period - at the Cinema: Il Giovane Favoloso

  

  “Freedom is the dream you dreamWhile putting thought in chains again --” ― Giacomo Leopardi, CantiIl Giovane Favoloso directed by Mario Martone is an Italian... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2014 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES