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1. Who wrote the beautiful ones are not yet born?
2. Who wrote Grapes of wrath?
3. Who wrote Tuesdays with Morie?
4. Who wrote the novel "shame"?
5. Name other works than the prophet written by kahlil gibran.
6. Name other works by Andre P. Brink, apart from praying Mantis
7. name all works of J R R Tolkien?
8. Let's try again, who wrote the series of stories on the "groot Marico?" This is a celebrated south African Author, so if you do not get it this time, I will need to put you out of your mystification?

The trivia section has a distinctly South African flavour this week so let's see who cracks it? We have some knowledgeable subscribers here, so let's hear!

1. Who wrote the tempest?
2. Who wrote "Master Harold and the boys, and a lesson from aloes?
3. Who wrote books on the "groot Marico" a South African Author but you may very have heard about him?
4. Who wrote Cry the beloved country?
5. Who wrote "a long walk to Freedom"
6. Who wrote great expectations?
7. Who wrote Alice in Wonder Land?
8. Who was famous for writing the Nania series?
9. What were these books about?
10. Who wrote Wuthering Hights?

Hi planeteers. I trust you found the june read of Satanic Verses by Rushdi a highlight on our reading calendar. Now let me hear, shall we make the read for this month something by Chinu Achebe? or some other author from the African continent? Or should authors born in July guide our choice?

Please give some suggestions.

Also do comment on "satanic verses" those who read the book.

I find Satanic verses a read of substance and though fictive, a rich work of description and literary substance as only Salman Rushdi can do it. Let me hear your opinion, Deon, Avenash, and whoever else read the work! Look forward to your opinion. Let's also put heads together for the next read?

1. Who was the author of Oliver twist?
2. Who wrote Quietly flows the Don?
3. Who wrote the pelican brief?
4. Who wrote Cancer Ward?
5. Who wwrote the alchemist? And what was the story about? Name one other work by the author?
6. Who wrote measure for measure? 7. Who wrote the book "the magus" and what was the story about?
8. Who wrote the well known psychology work describing the life of a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder titled Cybil?
Who

Just now I have finished a book which has really moved me, it is Wintger Vault by Anne Michaels. It is one of those books of which you want to know how it ends, but you do not want it to end. Badically it is the story of a few years in the lives of a young couple, but there is so much more. It tells about loss in many ways, the loss of parents, of a child, of a landscape, of people's homes but at the same time the book describes the love for all these things in such a tender moving way as I have seldom seen before. The author touches upon many basic things in life, the spaces we live in and how we experience them, the alliance people have with earth, soil, and what grows on it. It puts the disaster of a bonbed city in the perspective of hte oife of one young boy, and it puts the loss of a child in the perspective of a whopeople being moved away from their native ground. Told like this it sounds as if it could be a bit too much or too grand, but that it is definitely not. I am not one for reading a book more than once, there is so much to read, but I am sure I will re-read Winter Vault.
I cannot share (upload) it on IP, I only have a dutch version, but I'll try and find it somewhere, or if anyone else does...?
I just had to share this with all you other IP book lovers

Hi planeteers, I have stumped you? Let's hear the next winner!

1. Who was the Author of
The windhover?

2. Where does the line

I CAUGHT this morning morning's minion, king-
dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding?
come from?

3. Who wrote "Down and out in Paris?"

4. Which brothers were responsible for a multitude of well-known children's
stories?

5. Who wrote Sonet 55?

6. Who was the Queen of the Fairies in "A mid summer night's dream?

7. Name a novel, other than "Things fall apart" by Chinu Achebe;

8. Complete the following line:

Not marble, nor the gilded monuments

Of princes, shall

1. which novel began with the opening lines:
it was the best of times. It was the worst of times. It was the age of wisdom. It was the age of foolishness. It was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity ...
2. Who wrote leaf by Niggel?
3. Who was Dracula in the Bram Stoker stories?
4. Who wrote things fall apart?
5. Who wrote Master Harold and the boys?
6. The pelican Brief was written by John Steinbeck? True or false?
7. John Grisham wrote A brave new world? True or false?

Come on let's see which planeteer wins this contest!

This is a well-written book by Steven King about the nightmare adventure of a nine-year old girl getting lost in the woods.

1. Who was the author of Lady Chaterley's lover?
2. The partner of Sherlock holmes was Doctor?
3. Who wrote "the other side of midnight?
4. Which works was the author Kahlil Gibran well known for?

Let's see who get's these! Answers to follow by end today! So start participating book club subscribers!

Hi, my name is Carla jo and I am new here. I am a book junkie. Looking forward to reading about your favorite books and sharing.

Hi planeteers as you know our read for the month is Salman Rushdi's Satanic Verses. Let's hear from our readers this month! Be advised that the book can be found on IP search. If there is problem, contact me and I can send you the book off list.

Dear Planeteers this month our read got off to a late start. In spite of that, I am sure many of us who read Shantaram will find it hard to forget the beauty and depth of that powerful read. A fine read it was. However, I think we need slowly to hear from planeteers on the read for the month of June? So let's wrack our brains!
I look forward to a lively discussion with many suggestions! Regards

Pasha Alden

Allen Ginsberg
1926-1997, US poet

Ambrose Bierce

US writer and satirist.

Lived 1842 - 1914.


Ben Jonson
English playwright and poet
Bernard Berenson
Author
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
American writer


Federico Garcia Lorca
Spanish poet and playwright, 1899-1936

Known for his work such as Blood wedding. Among others

Fernando Pessoa
Portuguese poet, 1888 –


George Orwell
Author of classics such as 'Nineteen eighty four'


Mark Van Doren
Author

Salman Rushdie
British novelist

Thomas Hardy
Author of 'Tess Of The D'urbervilles' and other classics

Thomas Mann
German novelist 1875-1955

Hi book clubbers, I have started this months' read. It is powerful. It feels to me as if the author is the juggler, juggling humanity; good; evil; but all the time juggling to maintain sanity and keep himself afloat.

Dear book club subscribers, have moved house but not from the planet and chanel! So we are reading Chantaram? I look forward to it. It is also wonderful to be IP loves' chanel of the week! We are being loved for having a good read? That is great! Happy reading

Hi to all new subscribers. I trust you will find some powerful and meaningful reads on this chanel and enjoy facilitating and participating in discussions about books; let us hear about your most powerful reads and why. Some of mine are: Middlesex by jeffrey eugenides, the story of my life helen keller, war of the world, by auden, of course some poetry books, lord of the rings, the trilogy. 1984 by George Orwell, books by Salmon Rushdi and of course I love Kahlil Gibran Let's hear from you.

Dear book club subscribers,

Trust you found the read for April thought provoking. Please let's see some comments.

Now, also would love suggestions for the read for May? I have tons, but would like to give another planeteer the opportunity to suggest a favourite read. And let us hear why!

Look forward to hearing from you!

Kindest regards

Pasha Alden

May 4 - Graham Swift (1949 - )
May 4 - David Guterson (1956 - )
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May 5 - Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846 - 1916)
May 6 - Harry Martinson (1904 - 1978)
May 7 - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927 - )
May 7 - Peter Carey (1943 - )
May 7 - Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)
May 7 - Wladyslaw Reymont (1867 - 1925)
May 8 - Pat Barker (1943 - )
May 8 - Thomas Pynchon (1937 - )
May 11 - Camilo Jose Cela (1916 - 2002)
May 15 - Katherine Ann Porter (1890 - 1980)
May 15 - L. Frank Baum (1856 - 1919)
May 18 - Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
May 20 - Sigrid Undset (1882 - 1949)
May 20 -
Sally Cooper
May 22 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
May 23 - Scott O' Dell (1898 - 1989)
May 23 - Par Lagerkvist (1891 - 1974)
May 24 - Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (1905 - 1984)
May 24 - Joseph Brodsky (1940 - 1996)
May 24 - Marian Engel (1933 - 1985)
May 25 - Douglas LePan (1914 - 1998)
May 25 - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
May 26 - Alan Hollinghurst (1954 - )
May 27 - John Cheever (1912 - 1982)
May 27 - John Barth (1930 - )
May 27 - Herman Wouk (1915 - )
May 28 - Patrick White (1912 - 1990)
May 28 - Walker Percy (1916 - 1990)
May 31 - Saint-John Perse (1887 - 1975)
May 31 - Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)

gone with the wind by margaret mitchell

Hi book club subscribers, what are your experinces of our april read? Start thinking I would love input for the read for the month of May - after all this is not only my chanel!

Planeteers some lesser known and well known author birthdays for April, with a few mentioned works they are known for
Authors' Birthdays: April
Sharyn Skeeter
Posted by
Sharyn Skeeter
Apr 7, 2007
April 1: Augusta Baker
(1911-1998) was a writer and storyteller from Baltimore who was a librarian at the
New York Public Library for 35 years and who developed extensive bibliographies of
African American-based children's literature.
April 1: Samuel R. Delany
is a well-known, award-winning science fiction writer. Some of his novels are
Nova, Dalgren,
The Einstein Intersection
, Hogg, and the Neveryon Series
. He has also written short stories, essays, and he co-edited anthologies..
April 4: Maya Angelou
is a poet, writer, and actress. Her memoirs—
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and
All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes
—are well known. She has been honored with many literary, theater, and academic awards.
In 1993, she read her poetry at President Bill Clinton’s inauguration.
April 5: Booker T. Washington
(1855-1915) was an ex-slave from Virginia who rose to prominence as an essayist,
autobiographer, biographer, educator, and social thinker. His best known book is
Up From Slavery.
April 9: Paule Marshall
is a novelist and short story writer who highlights her Caribbean heritage in her
work. She has been honored with many awards including a MacArthur Fellowship. Her
novels include
Brown Girl, Brownstones, Soul Clap Hands and Sing,
Praisesong for the Widow, and The Fisher King.
April 13: Nella Larsen
(1893-1964) was a well-known Harlem Renaissance novelist and short story writer.
Her novels include
Quicksand and Passing.
April 19: Etheridge Knight
(1931-1991) was a Mississippi-born poet whose first poetry collection—
Poems from Prison
—was informed by his prison experience. He also published
Belly Song and Other Poems, Born of a Woman, and
The Essential Etheridge Knight
.
April 23: Charles Johnson
is a novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, screenwriter, and cartoonist.
In 1990 he received the National Book Award for his novel
Middle Passage
and he is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship . His other novels include
Faith and the Good Thing, Oxherding Tale, and Dreamer.
April 27: Jessie Redmon Fauset
(1882-1961) was a Harlem Renaissance novelist, essayist, teacher, and poet. When
she edited The Crisis magazine she encouraged such authors as Langston Hughes and
Jean Toomer.
April 27: August Wilson
(1945-2005) , acclaimed Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning playwright, who wrote
a ten-play cycle which includes
The Piano Lesson, Fences,
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
, Two Trains Running, and Radio Golf.
April 29: Yusef Komunyakaa
won the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for his poetry collection Neon Vernacular. He has
published many volumes of poetry including
Copacetic and
Dien Cai Dau
, which is based on his experiences in the war in Vietnam.

This is a file containing some downloaded names of authors with born in April.

Dear planeteer book club subscribers, hope you have been able to read our book; as far as I can see it is here. It may make for a challenging read, but it is well written. Below I point out one or two powerful paragraphs for me that stood out. I guess we take things like gender encoding for granted, as we never have to think of it. The below was powerful for me as it implied a kind of awareness on the part of the story teller, a deeply encoded gender awareness and perhaps even gender awareness of encoded gender behaviour:


Still pretty, Calliope soon finds herself
the shortest girl in the room. She drops her eraser. No boy brings it back. In
the Christmas pageant she is cast not as Mary as in past years but as an elf . .
. But there’s still hope, isn’t there? .

'Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and
digested'. :Sir Francis Bacon

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
Samuel Butler quotes

Hi all tried by posting a quick file. I am for now, just to get us reading, going to try and put the first two chapters on in separate files. These are not too long. Hope this works. Kind regards and my sincere apology for the technological gremlins! Pasha Alden

To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature.
William Shakespeare

A Fine Balance:Read with me
Mistry like few other burgeoning authors is a vibrant story-teller articulating lately departed present in a very prolific comportment. He like Rushdie has reshuffled the patterns of few important political episodes like the emergency in 1975, the death of the then PM and so forth in his novel, A Fine Balance. He has also fabricated his fictional pattern with other hues like, the Parsi ethos, the untouchability, the beggar kingdom and slum in Mumbai and so on.
A Fine Balance exhibits a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens. This magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea(Mumbai is a guess). The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers — a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village — will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future.
Mistry delineates the stark reality in vogue and in order to elevate the subjectivity and personal emotions, he has interwoven the lives of four protagonists belonging from different walks of life trying to compete in the race of livelihood. He has also given doses of down-to-earth philosophy of life through few of his characters which is more or less lively and thought provoking in tone. The premise that humanism and animalism; luxury and poverty; chaos and harmony; go together hand-in-hand is accentuated as well.

Tout ensemble, Mistry’s A Fine Balance is a real literary treat, slices of life sandwiched between fact and fiction. I enjoyed it thoroughly and was lost in the narration for entire eighteen hours. Hope ol will enjoy …..

Each time we re-read a book we get more out of it because we put more into it; a
different person is reading it, and therefore it is a different book.
Anonymous

A controversial look at gender. In South Africa we hve an athlete who has this genetic influence. I can only imagine what struggles she faces daily

This has been one of the most controversial but powerful reads for me - I could not put it down; The journey of one gene through time and the effecyt on a life will leave you started; The author is also known for the title "The virgin Suicides"

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know
that is poetry.
Emily Dickinson

Or maybe you’ve seen my photograph in chapter sixteen of the now sadly
outdatedGenetics and Heredity. That’s me on page 578, standing naked beside a
height chart with a black box covering my eyes.
My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent
driver’s license (from the Federal Republic of Germany) records my first name
simply as Cal. I’m a former field hockey goalie, long-standing member of the
Save-the-Manatee Foundation, rare attendant at the Greek Orthodox liturgy, and,
for most of my adult life, an employee of the U.S. State Department. Like
Tiresias, I was first one thing and then the other. I’ve been ridiculed by
classmates, guinea-pigged by doctors, palpated by specialists, and researched by
the March of Dimes. A redheaded girl from Grosse Pointe fell in love with me,
not knowing what I was. (Her brother liked me, too.) An army tank led me into
urban battle once; a swimming pool turned me into myth; I’ve left my body in
order to occupy others—and all this happened before I turned sixteen.
But now, at the age of forty-one, I feel another birth coming on. After decades
of neglect, I find myself thinking about departed great-aunts and -uncles,
long-lost grandfathers, unknown fifth cousins, or, in the case of an inbred
family like mine, all those things in one. And so before it’s too late I want to
get it down for good: this roller-coaster ride of a single gene through time.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when
you can't help it. ~Oscar Wilde

The thought of a great mind in English literature.

Very thought provoking is it not? I think it is safe to say that reading and learning shape and mould us into who we become? Let me hear your thoughts planeteers.