THE HORACE MANN UPSTANDERS BOOK AWARD will be presented at Antioch University during the THIRD ANNUAL CHILDRENS LITERATURE CONFERENCE June 28th 2010. The event is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC but space is limited and you must register at the upstanders award link provided here.
"GIVEN ANNUAL TO AN AUTHOR OF CHILDRENS FICTION for grades K through 6th, THE HORACE MAN UPSTANDERS BOOK AWARD honors a piece of literature that exemplifies the ideals of social action, and therefore encourages young readers to become agents of change or "upstanders" themselves. An "upstander" is a person who recognizes injustice and acts in a way to right the wrong.
5/26/10
5/19/10
IS YOUR LIBRARY UNABLE TO BUY BOOKS DUE TO BUDGET CUTS?
Recently I checked to see if any of the books I suggested for purchase at my local library system had been. None were. (I am particularly dying to read THE TALENTED MISS HIGHSMITH (about a favorite writer of mine Patricia Highsmith) by Joan Schenkar. Ah well, there is near no money to buy any new books. If the library buys ONE copy of a book it will suffice and we can be put on an electronic waiting list for our turn to read it.
I WONDER IF THIS WILL FORCE READERS LIKE ME TO COME UP WITH FUNDS TO BUY MORE OF OUR OWN BOOKS or if DONATIONS to the LIBRARY of BOOKS will be taken more seriously and provide the library with books to be put on shelves and loaned out rather than books to be SOLD at library book sales?
I WONDER IF THIS WILL FORCE READERS LIKE ME TO COME UP WITH FUNDS TO BUY MORE OF OUR OWN BOOKS or if DONATIONS to the LIBRARY of BOOKS will be taken more seriously and provide the library with books to be put on shelves and loaned out rather than books to be SOLD at library book sales?
5/12/10
Been Reading OPRAH by KITTY KELLEY
I've been reading " Ophrah" by Kitty Kelly... and I'll leave you to read it and learn what impact Oprah has had on book buying and getting books she and her staff have selected onto best seller lists... OK HERE IS A CLUE... the higher Oprah held the book - the closer to her BREASTS - the more copies sold.
5/10/10
BOOK EXCERPT: GRACE KELLY by DONALD SPOTO
page 139 C by Donald Spoto
"Terms like "lady," "genteel," "elegant," "patrician" and "reserved" were most often used to describe Grace - along with puns and plays on her first name. It's almost impossible to keep count of the number of articles, over thirty years, that were titled "Amazing Grace."
"At exactly the same time, Paramount's publicists helped journalists with their descriptions of Audrey Hepburn, who was routinely termed "elfin" (although elves are spiteful, malignant dwarfs), "gazelle-like" (despite the fact that gazelles are spotted antelopes), "coltish" (although colts are male horses) ; and, most often, "gamine" (which means a street urchin or a homeless waif.) With Audry and Grace, new vocabularies were needed for new styles, and the publicists pored over their dictionaries. In "real life," if Grace or Audry were seen in a restaurant or at a public event, there was quite literally a collective, audible intake of breath, it was the appearance of a goddess to mere mortals."
"Terms like "lady," "genteel," "elegant," "patrician" and "reserved" were most often used to describe Grace - along with puns and plays on her first name. It's almost impossible to keep count of the number of articles, over thirty years, that were titled "Amazing Grace."
"At exactly the same time, Paramount's publicists helped journalists with their descriptions of Audrey Hepburn, who was routinely termed "elfin" (although elves are spiteful, malignant dwarfs), "gazelle-like" (despite the fact that gazelles are spotted antelopes), "coltish" (although colts are male horses) ; and, most often, "gamine" (which means a street urchin or a homeless waif.) With Audry and Grace, new vocabularies were needed for new styles, and the publicists pored over their dictionaries. In "real life," if Grace or Audry were seen in a restaurant or at a public event, there was quite literally a collective, audible intake of breath, it was the appearance of a goddess to mere mortals."
4/29/10
From HIGH SOCIETY THE LIFE OF GRACE KELLY by DONALD SPOTO
Once-married-then-frustrated-actress Grace Kelly once found it acceptable as a Princess to read poetry.
Page 265
"With the actors Richard Kiley and Richard Pasco, she participated in "The American Heritage," prepared In honor of the U.s. Bicentennial. Grace recited poems by Anne Bradstreet, Carl Sandburg, Ogden Nash, T.S. Eliot,and Robert Frost. (Originally staged at the Edinburgh International Festival, the program played later in Pittsburgh, Minneapolis, Princeton, Harvard, and Washington D.C.
"The staged poetry reading continued sporadically from 1976 through 1981 and were a source of great pleasure for Grace and her audiences. She canceled them early in 1982 when she suffered the first of a series of severe headaches that seemed to be migraines but were not. No cause or remedy could be found, except that her blood pressure was abnormally high, and she could not tolerate the side effects of most antihypertensive medications then available to her. The headaches came and went, but her blood pressure was not well controlled. These ailments were the first signs that she was suffering form vascular disease, just like several members of her family.
C 2009 Donald Spoto
Harmony Books
Page 265
"With the actors Richard Kiley and Richard Pasco, she participated in "The American Heritage," prepared In honor of the U.s. Bicentennial. Grace recited poems by Anne Bradstreet, Carl Sandburg, Ogden Nash, T.S. Eliot,and Robert Frost. (Originally staged at the Edinburgh International Festival, the program played later in Pittsburgh, Minneapolis, Princeton, Harvard, and Washington D.C.
"The staged poetry reading continued sporadically from 1976 through 1981 and were a source of great pleasure for Grace and her audiences. She canceled them early in 1982 when she suffered the first of a series of severe headaches that seemed to be migraines but were not. No cause or remedy could be found, except that her blood pressure was abnormally high, and she could not tolerate the side effects of most antihypertensive medications then available to her. The headaches came and went, but her blood pressure was not well controlled. These ailments were the first signs that she was suffering form vascular disease, just like several members of her family.
C 2009 Donald Spoto
Harmony Books
4/25/10
COCO CHANEL Quote
"Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity." - CoCo Chanel
4/22/10
4/19/10
LA TIMES FESTIVAL OF BOOKS at UCLA
Sat, Apr 24, 2010 - Sun, Apr 25, 2010
UCLA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS LOS ANGELES TIMES
It's always great to be around other people who are crazy for books!
UCLA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS LOS ANGELES TIMES
It's always great to be around other people who are crazy for books!
4/17/10
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO LINK - LOTS OF GREAT LITERARY INTERVIEWS and MUSIC
Love listening to NPR... NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO
4/12/10
POLAND'S TRAGEDY AND POLISH-AMERICANS (LIKE ME!)
As a Polish-American, it is difficult for me to believe that the Polish plane that crashed over Russian the other day, was not a kind of holocaust staged by the Russians. For all of those who would wish me to believe that Dan Brown's DaVinci Code is a revelation of conspiracy theories rather than a fictive novel, let me say that many Polish Americans believe that THE COLD WAR GOES ON! This plane crash, because of the importance of so many passengers now dead, is a HISTORY CHANGING EVENT.
The fact that President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, and so very many people important to today's Poland, were on their way to Katyn, a place in the Russian Forest where Polish intellectuals and military officers were dumped in an unmarked grave 70 years ago by Russian soldiers, is especially upsetting. I'm one of those Americans who has ancestors said to be taken away by Russians, never to be seen again. I have been unable to verify or locate these people and I would like the records of the names of those prisoners to be opened.
In one LA Times article I read (in paper) "I just have this feeling that Katyn is a diabolical place in Polish History." Tomasz Lis, journalist and author.
There are so very many links to this story on the Internet. But let me say this. I am linking to the Russian point of view above. So if you are by chance one of my readers from Poland, or Hungary, or Slovakia, please understand the reasons behind this. I'm trying to be fair. I'm trying not to believe that a pilot with experience, with knowledge of his passengers, and warned not to land, would do so anyway. I'm trying not to believe that there was not a terrorist on board, or some character who put a gun to his head.
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The fact that President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, and so very many people important to today's Poland, were on their way to Katyn, a place in the Russian Forest where Polish intellectuals and military officers were dumped in an unmarked grave 70 years ago by Russian soldiers, is especially upsetting. I'm one of those Americans who has ancestors said to be taken away by Russians, never to be seen again. I have been unable to verify or locate these people and I would like the records of the names of those prisoners to be opened.
In one LA Times article I read (in paper) "I just have this feeling that Katyn is a diabolical place in Polish History." Tomasz Lis, journalist and author.
There are so very many links to this story on the Internet. But let me say this. I am linking to the Russian point of view above. So if you are by chance one of my readers from Poland, or Hungary, or Slovakia, please understand the reasons behind this. I'm trying to be fair. I'm trying not to believe that a pilot with experience, with knowledge of his passengers, and warned not to land, would do so anyway. I'm trying not to believe that there was not a terrorist on board, or some character who put a gun to his head.
C Christine Trzyna All Rights Reserved including International and Internet Rights. Please contact me via comments.
4/11/10
From PEONY IN LOVE by LISA SEE
"The Ming dynasty fell in 1644 and the Qing Dynasty, led by the Manchus, began. For about thirty years, the country was in turmoil. Some women were forced from their homes; others went out by choice. Literally thousands of women became published poets and writers. The lovesick maidens were part of this phenomenon. The works of more than twenty of them have survived today.
"I have followed the traditional Chinese style for rendering dates. Emperor Kangxi reigned from 1662-1722. Tang Xianzu's opera The Peony Pavilion was first produced and then published in 1598. Chen Tong (Peony in this novel) was born ca.1649. Tan Ze Ca 1656, and Quian Yi ca 1671. In 1694, The Three Wives Commentary became the first book of it's kind to be written and published by women anywhere in the world."
Lisa See C 2007
Random House Publisher
CONNECT TO LISA SEE's BIO by clicking on the title above
"I have followed the traditional Chinese style for rendering dates. Emperor Kangxi reigned from 1662-1722. Tang Xianzu's opera The Peony Pavilion was first produced and then published in 1598. Chen Tong (Peony in this novel) was born ca.1649. Tan Ze Ca 1656, and Quian Yi ca 1671. In 1694, The Three Wives Commentary became the first book of it's kind to be written and published by women anywhere in the world."
Lisa See C 2007
Random House Publisher
CONNECT TO LISA SEE's BIO by clicking on the title above
4/7/10
WILDERNESS by LORINE NIEDECKER
WILDERNESS by Lorine Niedecker
You are the man
You are my other country
and I find it hard going.
You are the prickly pear.
You are the sudden violent storm.
The torrent to raise the river
to float the wounded dear.
****
Saw this poetry on the bus and quickly wrote it down...
You are the man
You are my other country
and I find it hard going.
You are the prickly pear.
You are the sudden violent storm.
The torrent to raise the river
to float the wounded dear.
****
Saw this poetry on the bus and quickly wrote it down...
4/5/10
SKIRBALL : MONSTERS AND MIRACLES A JOURNEY THROUGH JEWISH PICTURE BOOKS
Link now to the Skirball Cultural Center....
"Showcasing more than 100 original illustrations, this delightful exhibition takes visitors on a journey through the world of Jewish picture books from the 16th century to the present.... "
Included are Maurice Sendak, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Lemony Snicket, and Art Spiegelman." (These are the authors I've read. I have Singer and Spiegelman in my collection." Christine Trzyna
Skirball
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
LA, CA 90049
"Showcasing more than 100 original illustrations, this delightful exhibition takes visitors on a journey through the world of Jewish picture books from the 16th century to the present.... "
Included are Maurice Sendak, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Lemony Snicket, and Art Spiegelman." (These are the authors I've read. I have Singer and Spiegelman in my collection." Christine Trzyna
Skirball
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
LA, CA 90049
4/2/10
CHRISTINE TRZYNA WRITERLY LIFE COPYRIGHT
Christine Trzyna Writerly Life Rights Information AKA Christine Trzyna BlogSpot AKA Christine Trzyna
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4/1/10
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