Great news for poets and songwriters!
Bob Dylan wins the Nobel for Literature.
“It is the first line that gives the inspiration and then it’s like riding a bull. Either you just stick with it, or you don’t.”
— Bob Dylan
Fiction
Anna Dewdney, Children’s Author and Illustrator
(Born December 25, 1965 – Died September 3, 2016 Aged 50)
“When we read with a child, we are doing so much more than teaching him to read or instilling in her a love of language,” she wrote. “We are doing something that I believe is just as powerful, and it is something that we are losing as a culture: by reading with a child, we are teaching that child to be human. When we open a book, and share our voice and imagination with a child, that child learns to see the world through someone else’s eyes.”
Seriously, this is too cute for words
Virginia Woolf
“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
— Virginia Woolf
TED Talk – What Makes a Bestseller?
Crank the volume on your computer! The sound on this video is very low, but Jonny Geller, literary agent and joint CEO of Curtis Brown, brings up some interesting points.
The Shelter Buddies Reading Program
This is such a great idea.
“The Shelter Buddies Reading Program at the Humane Society of Missouri was designed to help our shelter dogs become more adoptable. Participants sit outside of the dogs kennel and read to them, which helps shy dogs learn to relax around people, while teaching high-energy dogs that calm behavior is desirable. When children read stories to the dogs, it also helps them develop their own reading skills.”
For more information visit http://www.hsmo.org/education
See also:
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/shelter-buddies-reading-program?context=featured
Happy trails, Angus!
I love reading obituaries. The good ones make me wish I’d known the deceased.
Angus Brian MacDonald wrote his own. It is funny and honest, one of the best I’ve ever read.
“My little dog Scarlett died Sept. 2013, and there really are no words to describe what a total destresser Scarlett was for me. So I guess if there’s a place in the after-life where little dogs and old dawgs go, then that’s where you’ll find me and Scarlett. Maybe I’ll see you all there sometime.”
Rest in peace Mr. MacDonald.
http://www.inmemoriam.ca/view-announcement-549326-angus-brian-macdonald.html
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