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Elements of Style! Best of the best… Bette
Excellent, in-depth review of a timely tale for all ages. A fantastic book whose story reveals our personal and environmental vulnerabilities! Well-deserved KUDOS to both of you — A.E. Curzon and Mungai and the Goa Constrictor! —Bette A. Stevens
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- Woo Hoo! “Mungai” is the Main Feature This Week on The Bridge of Deaths Blog (ameliacurzonblogger.wordpress.com)
I have just received the most spectacular in-depth review for Mungai and the Goa Constrictor. My heartfelt thanks to the very erudite Jane Whiteoak for taking so much time to write this review. I hope many of you will find the time and the irrepressible urge to read it.
Select a place..any where in the world and you most probably have heard stories about a pair to be very wary of, like Mungai and the Goa Constrictor! Likely, you’ll have heard them directly, from the innocent victims left strewn aside in their wake. This is a story about nature, reforestation, gold mining, animals both two-legged and four-legged and the most nebulous kind of all… that of the cold and calculating… psychological nature.
Mungai, escapes from a zoo by literally biting the hand that feeds him, to obtain his freedom. Along the way he connects with a self-centered, narcissistic snake named…
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Mungai and the Goa Constrictor | For children of all ages
Children’s Book of the Week
Children’s Book of the Week: Amazing Matilda – A Monarch’s Tale by Bette A Stevens
Mungai and the Goa Constrictor | For children of all ages
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Internet Insights
A big welcome to my guest for the week, Juli D Revezzo. Here Juli questions why we are so willing to trust our cyber friends whilst telling our children never to talk to strangers.
When Amelia asked me to write about an issue for her blog, in all honesty, I drew a blank. I don’t tend to write issue related stories; I write my stories to give a reader a good time, or as in the case of The Artist’s Inheritance, a good scare. There, I wrote about a normal woman, hoping to live a normal life after the death of her brother-in-law. Instead, she finds out her husband isn’t having such a normal time of it.
I guess the biggest issue in the story is that of knowing whom to trust. The main character meets a man who says he can take his career to bigger and better heights—things he’s undoubtedly…
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Shakespeare, Then & Now
HIS TIIME & OURS… Shakespeare’s Restless World by Neil MacGregor (Allen Lane, £25)
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This video is called Video SparkNotes: Shakespeare’s King Lear summary.
Simon Basketter in Britain takes a look at a new book that cuts through the mysticism around Shakespeare:
Tue 16 Oct 2012
Objects that bear witness to Shakespeare’s restless times
The last thing the eyeball of Edward Oldcorne would have seen was the executioner walking to disembowel him.
That eyeball became a relic. And the crowds who watched his execution in the morning could then go to a Shakespeare play in the afternoon.
Neil MacGregor points out in his new book on William Shakespeare, “A stage is actually called a scaffold, and in Henry V the Chorus uses the word.
“So when Shakespeare stages the gouging out of Gloucester’s eyes in King Lear, it is for an audience who would have seen people being disembowelled and the severed heads on London Bridge.”
There is probably more mysticism about Shakespeare…
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Into the Pumpkin by Linda Franklin
Into the Pumpkin by Linda Franklin.
October Children’s Book Review
Link
http://www.examiner.com/article/amazing-matilda-a-monarch-s-tale-by-bette-a-stevens
http://www.examiner.com/article/amazing-matilda-a-monarch-s-tale-by-bette-a-stevens
(Books September 4, 2012 BY Paula Hrbecek http://www.examiner.com )
“One concern parents have is how to inspire their children to meet challenges with patience and persistence. This is the plot of a new book, ‘Amazing Matilda’.”
“Matilda’s story is my story. It’s you story too. It’s everyone’s story. Meeting the challenges of life at every stage of life is no easy task. Matilda and her friends encourage readers and listeners to meet those challenges.” (Bette A. Stevens)
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Bette A. Stevens, Maine Author 
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on 09/05/2012