This is the archive for 26 March 2008
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Original title: El ingenioso hidalgo
don Quixote de la Mancha
Country: Spain
Language; Spanish
Genre(s): Picaresco, Satire, Parody,
Farce, Psychological novel
Publisher:Iuan de la Cuesta
Publication date:1605, 1615,
Courier Book Editor
Don Quixote, by Miguel De Cervantes, depicts the main character as one who desires to live his life as a knight. Don Quixote is from La Mancha and once had plenty of money and land. He has shirked his life’s comforts away and has set out to find adventure.
The novel has an unusual beginning: the self-proclaimed knight Don Quixote acts rather unintelligibly while on his search for adventure. He is illustrated as a hot headed ready to fight knight who does not always know the present situation.
He has read many books of chivalry and pretends to be living in the past while those around him receive pleasure from his unusual acts. His friends and family attempt to rid Quixote’s library of books that contain chivalry.
Read Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, free from Project Gutenberg.
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Standard Operating Procedure
by Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris,
is due out soon
If facts are your bag, be forewarned — many of spring 2008's nonfiction books are two shades darker than somber. Global economic decline. The war on terror. Death-dealing plagues. Graveyards!
But wait! Julie Andrews, the Mary Poppins of our collective mind, has a new memoir out. Maybe she can parachute in and clean up this mess. So does Captain Kirk — aka William Shatner — a man who knows how to put things to rights in 60 minutes or less. And Al Gore comes back with some prescriptions for stabilizing the climate. On a more literary note, V.S. Naipaul and Paul Theroux are publishing new, hopefully mostly true, books, as is bittersweet funnyman David Sedaris.
Posted by courier at 09:05 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
Here are the best sellers for the week that ended Saturday, March 15, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.
(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by Cahners Publishing Co., a division of Reed Elsevier, USA. (c) 2008 by Reed Elsevier, USA)
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. Change of Heart. Jodi Picoult. Atria, $26.95
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 2
2. The Appeal. John Grisham. Doubleday, $27.95
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 7
3. Remember Me? Sophie Kinsella. Dial, $25
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 3
4. 7th Heaven. James Patterson & Maxine Paetro. Little, Brown, $27.99
Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 6
5. Killer Heat. Linda Fairstein. Doubleday, $26
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
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By Jessica Stewart,
Courier Book Editor
Romancing Mister Bridgerton
by Julia Quinn
Mass Market Paperback: 370 pages
Publisher: Avon (July 2, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0380820846
ISBN-13: 978-0380820849“On the sixth of April, in the year 1812—precisely two days before her sixteenth birthday—Penelope Featherington fell in love.
It was, in a word, thrilling. The world shook. Her heart leaped. The moment was breathtaking. And, she was able to tell herself with some satisfaction, the man in question—one Colin Bridgerton—felt precisely the same way.
Oh, not the love part. He certainly didn’t fall in love with her in 1812 (and not in 1813, 1814, 1815, or—oh, blast, not in all the years 1816-1822, either, and certainly not in 1823, when he was out of the country the whole time anyway). But his earth shook, his heart leaped, and Penelope knew without a shadow of a doubt that his breath was taken away as well. For a good ten seconds.
Falling off a horse tended to do that to a man.”
Don’t worry—Colin does eventually fall in love with Penelope. It just took quite a bit longer for him to come to his senses. This book was thoroughly enjoyable, mainly because it isn’t only about falling in love. Love does play a major role in the novel (it is a romance after all), but there is an actual plot behind it. It certainly wasn’t a serious, thought-provoking novel, but it was perfect for a bit of light reading, the kind you would enjoy while lying by the pool and enjoying the rays, especially now that those rays aren’t always accompanied by a chilling wind.
Posted by courier at 07:39 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
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From wikipedia:
Nathaniel Bowditch (March 26, 1773 – March 16, 1838) was an early American mathematician remembered for his work on ocean navigation. He is often credited as the founder of modern maritime navigation; his book The New American Practical Navigator, first published in 1802, is still carried onboard every commissioned U.S. Naval vessel.
Bowditch, the fourth of seven children, was born in Salem, Massachusetts. At the age of ten, he was made to leave school to work in his father's cooperage, before becoming indentured at twelve for nine years as a bookkeeping apprentice to a ship chandler.
Read Nat the Navigator: A Life of Nathaniel Bowditch by Henry Ingersoll Bowditch, free from Google books.
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