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Poet of the Body
Walt Whitman was born in Long Island, New York on May 31, 1819. Whitman was the first great American poet. He died March 26, 1892.
The Belle of Amherst
Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts on December 10, 1830. She died at the age of 56 on May 15, 1886.
The Last Lecture: A Review
In the final lecture of his life, Dr. Randy Pausch, popular Computer Science Professor at Carnegie Mellon who had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer, encourages his students and colleagues to reach for their dreams. In The Last Lecture, the professor doesn’t talk about his looming death but about enduring life lessons and the achievement of his childhood dreams. “We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand”.
The Witch Hunt and Marilyn Monroe
Christopher Bigsby’s Arthur Miller is published by Weidenfield & Nicolson. The authorized biography covers the years 1915 to 1962.
A Quantum of Boredom
Roger Moore’s My Word Is My Bond is published by Michael O’Mara Books. I don’t know where he found his ghost-writer, maybe it’s his accountant.
Brief Book Reviews
Book reviews on Falling through the earth by Danielle Trussoni, Are You Happy by Emily Fox Gordon and
Girlbomb by Janice Erlbaum.
Angels Dance and Angels Die: The Tragic Romance of Pamela and Jim Morrison
A review of the book by Patricia Butler.
