Mail Online: The last surviving member of the real von Trapp family that inspired The Sound of Music has died.
Maria Franziska, one of seven brothers and sisters from the famous family, passed away in her sleep aged 99 at home in Vermont, America.
Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.
Saturday, February 22, 2014
Do You Have Your Copy?
My book is being featured on Saturday February 22nd 2014 at eBookSoda, a new
readers' site where they'll send you ebook recommendations tailored to your
taste. www.ebooksoda.com.
Otherworldly Books
AbeBooks: Otherworldly Books: Can’t afford to get away at all, let alone to another planet? Pick up a book. One of the best things about reading is the reader can experience strange and wonderful times, places and situations without leaving the comfort of their easy chair. In fiction, people and scenarios are invented, but some authors take escapism a step further and create entire cities, planets and universes. A creative and skilled writer can build geography, languages, races of people, musical instruments, regional cuisine, traditions and more, unlike anything we see in reality, and the detail can be impressive.
Friday, February 21, 2014
Garrick Utley, R. I. P.
NYTimes.com: Garrick Utley, a former anchor for NBC News who for many years was one of a rare breed in television news reporting, a full-time foreign correspondent, died Thursday night at his home in Manhattan. He was 74.
Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.
Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.
Incredible, Amazing, Insane Revelation about True Detective
How's that for a headline? I've been taking lessons from Buzzfeed and Cracked. Anyway, I started reading Nic Pizzolatto's Galveston last night, and I learned a couple of things in the first 50 pages or so. (1) The main character's name is Roy Cady. (2) He makes little soldiers out of beer cans. Get it? Roy Cady? R. C. Same initials as Rust Cohle in True Detective, and he makes little guys out of beer cans! So Cohle is really Cady. Well, except that the ages don't match up. We Internet theorists don't let a little thing like that bother us.
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