Saturday

Books Strand 80 at Strand Books

Books Strand 80 at Strand Books:
 "On our 80th birthday, we asked our customers to tell us what their favorite books are. Here is The Strand 80: your favorite books."






































The Strand 80
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To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee (own)
***Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen (own)
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
***Catcher in the Rye, by JD Salinger
Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand
The Fellowship of the Rings, by JRR Tolkien (own//have read)
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
***Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, by JK Rowling
***Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
1984, by George Orwell
***On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
***Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
***The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
Slaughter-House Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
***Ulysses, by James Joyce(own)
The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
****The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemmingway
War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
The Hobbit, by JRR Tolkien (own/have read)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by JK Rowling
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon (own)
Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
***A Prayer For Owen Meaney, by John Irving
The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll (own)
The Stranger, by Albert Camus (own)
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
***Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott (own)
Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
***Moby Dick, by Herman Melville (own)
The Alchemist, by Paul Coelho
Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo
A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens (own)
Anthem, by Ayn Rand
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (own/have read)
In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote (own/have read)
Cat’s Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Little Prince, by Antoine De Saint-Eupery
The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison (own/have read)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera
The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
The World According to Garp, by John Irving
Middlemarch, by George Eliot
To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by JK Rowling
The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway (own/have read)
***Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card (own)
Bleak House, by Charles Dickens
***Beloved, by Toni Morrison
***Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers
Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk
The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner
Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
The Giver, by Lois Lowry (own)
Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov
***Blindness, by Jose Saramago
***Life of Pi, by Yann Martel (own)
Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak (own)
The Chronicles of Narnia, by CS Lewis (own/have read)
The Odyssey, by Homer
The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown (own/have read)
Franny and Zooey, by JD Salinger
A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle
Everything is Illuminated, by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde (own/have read)
The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
 (tied with The Picture of Dorian Gray, so this isreally "The Strand 81")


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Friday

What's That Beatle Song Really About? - The real meaning behind some of the Beatles songs

What's That Beatle Song Really About? - The real meaning behind some of the Beatles songs:

 "Intended for the Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club album, "Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane" was instead released as a double A-side single - highly unusual for the time. It was also unusual for having a picture sleeve and was accompanied by a ground-breaking "promotional film" - the forerunner of the modern pop video."



Tuesday

Literacy called key to putting minorities in college | TribLIVE

Literacy called key to putting minorities in college | TribLIVE:

 "The way to increase minority enrollment in colleges and universities is to improve the literacy rates of students, a former director of the Washington Archdiocese‘s Office of Black Catholics said Monday at St. Vincent College‘s observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day."



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Recipe for literacy success: start early and read often | SouthCoastToday.com

Recipe for literacy success: start early and read often | SouthCoastToday.com:

 "NEW BEDFORD — When it comes to improving graduation rates, the key is to start reading early, said Pam Kuechler.

And she means early.

"As soon as infants are born, parents should be reading to them," said Kuechler, coordinator of the Greater New Bedford Early Literacy Consortium."


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The Magic Of Literature by ~Ponti55



The Magic Of Literature
Matteo Pontonutti  





Wednesday

Collecting Souls - YouTube

Collecting Souls - YouTube:

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El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha



Jan.16th 1605 - The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid

Wednesday

Harold Bloom Talks About Literature, Judaism, and the Almighty – Tablet Magazine

Harold Bloom sobre Cortázar. De la crítica lit...
Harold Bloom sobre Cortázar. De la crítica literaria al SIDA (Photo credit: Scemoso)
Harold Bloom Talks About Literature, Judaism, and the Almighty – Tablet Magazine:


 "“You should hear him talk to a cabdriver,” one of Bloom’s ex-students told me. Bloom thrives on personal contact, and his conversation is full of affectionate verbal squeezes: His Yale colleague Geoffrey Hartman, like Bloom a pioneering critic of Romanticism, is the “Ayatollah Hartmeini”; John Ashbery, the poet, is always “the noble Ashbery.” Every male under 60 is addressed as “young man”; every woman, of whatever age, as “my dear.” “Kinderlach,” Bloom will say to a group of middle-aged friends, with genuine, surprised tenderness, “you astonish me always.”"




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