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- Favorite Book
- Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock
- About Me:
- A book trade professional with over 50 years in the business, mostly as managing editor or publisher, John Howard Reid has written over 100 books, both fiction and non-fiction. Currently he is the Chief Judge of three of America's richest writing contests, and has even written a book, "Write Ways to Win Writing Contests", to assist authors in their quest for top honors.
- Website:
- http://johnreid.exactpages.com
John Howard Reid's Blog
Dress Circle Magazine reviews MYSTERY, SUSPENSE, FILM NOIR AND DETECTIVE MOVIES ON DVD
Editor Ross Adams writes in the February 2010 issue of Dress Circle: the Film Enthusiasts’ Magazine: Just a fraction larger than Leonard Maltin’s Film Guide and a massive 1.3 inches thick, this book is a real pot-pourri of
essential information: players, technical teams, music, release dates and more.
During 2009, I purchased a number of classic movies on DVD, but the…
Continue Posted on February 12, 2010 at 10:13pm
MERRYLL MANNING THE HEALTH FARM MURDERS review by Jacque Stengel in TCM Reviews
Going on vacation to the world down under is a dream for most of us, but Merryll Manning not only gets to travel to Australia but to a health farm to learn about healthy living. A dream come true?
Miami is the home of police sergeant, Merryll Manning who finds himself in his mother's homeland of Australia on a week long vacation to a health farm. He is first seen on a train with various other colorful characters also attending
the farm. Each person brings his…
Posted on February 5, 2010 at 10:38pm
Final poem for book, A Salute to Spanish Poetry 100 Masterpieces from Spain and Latin America
translated from the Spanish of Miguel de Unamuno
by John Howard Reid
Sleeping waters,
dense green grass,
golden stones,
silver sky!
There is a dense greenness in the water
and from the greenness
like giant spears of wheat
that etch their gold
against the sky’s silver
four tiers arise:
the river
the trees
the tower
and the sky upon which it rests.
And yet all descend upon the… Continue
Posted on January 31, 2010 at 5:15am
Rome in Ruins by Felicia D. Hemans, Francisco de Quevedo, and John Howard Reid
translated from the Spanish of Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas by Felicia D. Hemans
Amidst these scenes, O Pilgrim, seek’st thou Rome?
Vain is thy search—the pomp of Rome is fled;
Her silent Aventine is glory’s tomb;
Her walls, her shrines, but relics of the dead.
That hill, where Caesars dwelt in other days,
Forsaken mourns, where once it towered sublime;
Each mouldering medal now far less… Continue
Posted on January 26, 2010 at 5:44am
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Please help me celebrate the 10th anniversary of my debut novel!
"Bernice L. McFadden's first novel begins with the brief, poetic description of a crime so startling that the reader is helplessly drawn in, as if a bright red door stood ajar on a bleak and forbidding house. Pearl Taylor's daughter, Jude, has been found murdered and mutilated near a field at the edge of town. "The murder had white man written all over it," writes McFadden. "But no one would say it above a whisper. It was 1940. It was Bigelow, Arkansas. It was a black child. Need any more be said?" In the years that follow, Pearl catches sight of Jude in so many strangers that when Sugar Lacey comes to town and sets up her unwholesome "business" in the house next door, she doesn't know whether to believe what she sees in Sugar's face: a striking similarity to Jude, dead 15 years. In her sedate but supple prose--rising at times to a light, unforced lyricism in the description of landscape or character--the author perfectly renders the closed and protective society of a small Southern town, the superstitions, gossip, and prying."
In order to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of Sugar I am campaigning to sell 10,000 copies by Jan 9th, 2010.
Please purchase a copy for yourself or a friend. And yes, Kindle purchases count! And please spread the word!!!!
Peace & Blessings!
Bernice
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