Happy Saint Patrick’s Day, bookworms! I know I’ve been a bad book blogger lately and I’m trying to do my best to make it up to you. To start, a St. Paddy’s Day celebration of some of my favorite Irish writers. Just about a year ago, I spent a week in the Emerald Isle for [...]
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Book News Round-Up
The latest in the crazy, quirky and just plain fun stories about books, from all around the world wide web: June 16th marked passing of Bloomsday, a celebration of James Joyce and his epic work, Ulysses, which takes place on June 16, 1904. Two intrepid fans decided to take things one step further and tweet [...]
The Luck o’ the Irish
Top o’ the mornin’ to ya, bookworms! It’s Saint Patrick’s Day! In honor of the Saint Paddy and the Emerald Isle, let’s give thanks for some of my favorite Irish authors, poets and playwrights: Jonathan Swift, for giving us Gulliver’s Travels and silly made-up words and people, like Lilliputians and Yahoos. James Joyce, for “stream [...]
