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The Hindu : Arts / Books : Words’ worth

By admin | Published: August 27, 2012

Nivedita Sen on the challenges of translating Syed Mustafa Siraj’s nuanced works for an urban English readership like many book-reading Bengalis, Nivedita Sen is not unfamiliar with Syed Mustafa Siraj. The Delhi University professor has long revelled in the literary sphere of the Contemporary Bangla Literature luminary, not knowing though that one day she would [...]

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Strict dad is making life difficult

By admin | Published: August 24, 2012

Thursday Aug 23 2012 I’m 19 years old and a mum to a two-year-old daughter. My boyfriend, who is the father of my baby, and I are saving hard to try to afford a deposit for a place of our own, but it’s very hard. Meanwhile, I’m living with my parents and my dad is [...]

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Theater review: Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale at Rosewood Center in Dallas

By admin | Published: July 7, 2012

by Mary L. Clark of John Garcia’s the Column Let the music, the songs, and this version of the Cinderella story cool your mind. So many children of this generation seem to find their entertainment diversion sitting in front of televisions and computers or hunched over smartphones and tablets, chatting, texting and gaming. and while [...]

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Story Time! Listen to a story (for adults) read in mandarin and learn Chinese online

By admin | Published: July 1, 2012

Listening to stories read in mandarin might be the best way to get your mind working actively on your new language. It’s also one of the more effective path to learn Chinese online. However, the reality is, you might can find lots and lots of Chinese stories for toddlers and kids, you can’t easily find [...]

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Author uses riches to get kids reading

By admin | Published: June 28, 2012

NEW YORK – with more than 260 million books sold around the world, novelist James Patterson no longer worries about whether his next crime thriller will flop. He’s more concerned about building an audience of future readers at a time when the written word competes with film, television, video games and more. part of the [...]

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Sollers Point Library News

By admin | Published: June 27, 2012

Free programs at the Baltimore County Public Library’s Sollers Point branch, 323 Sollers Point Road (Info: 410-288-3123) •   Preschool story time for ages 2 to 5 with an adult, Tuesday, July 3, 10:30 a.m. Activities include stories and songs.•   Baby Boosters story Time for ages 23 months and younger with an adult will [...]

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Book vs Adaptation: The Field of Blood

By admin | Published: April 9, 2012

Published in 2005 and set in 1981 Denise Mina’s THE FIELD OF BLOOD introduces 18-year old Paddy Meehan; gopher at a Glasgow newspaper with a yearning to be a journalist. This stems from her lifelong interest in the real-life case of a man whose name she shares who was wrongly convicted of murder. As the [...]

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Sondheim musical comes to university stage – Greene County Messenger: Local News

By admin | Published: March 12, 2012

WAYNESBURG — Stephen Sondheim is probably contemporary American theater’s best known songwriter and composer, famous for everything from “West Side Story,” “Sweeney Todd” and “A Little Night Music” to “Company” and “A funny thing Happened on the way to the Forum.” In the mid-1980s, when Sondheim teamed up with librettist James Lapine, the duo decided [...]

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Children’s stories « carocat.co.uk

By admin | Published: February 5, 2012

I’ve had several separate conversations about books I read as a child over the past few days. one of them evolved around fairy tales, particularly the quite grim Grimm’s ones [see what I did there...?] and the other about Sherlock Holmes. If my memory is correct, which is always a caveat to add to most [...]

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It’s all about animals at Canton nature center

By admin | Published: February 1, 2012

The Mass Audubon Visual Arts Center, Canton, preschool program will focus on Jan Brett’s “The Hat”and a hedgehog will be on hand for children to meet Tuesday, Feb. 7, from 10-11 a.m. on Feb. 14, from 10-11 a.m., the theme will be “tracking,” and children will walk like some of our Massachusetts animals and make [...]

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