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Readers recommend the best books for reading aloud April 28, 2017 10:26am Text size Copy shortlink: The secret is out you love reading aloud, and you love being read to. I knew it! And I am delighted. Last month I wrote about books that I thought would be great to read out loud. But you came up with a much better list. Let’s get to it: It took me less than a millisecond to frame a response: “Babbitt,” by Sinclair Lewis. Not only is this the pre-eminent novel meant to be read out loud, it is also the one most delightful to hear. It’s boisterous, not reflective at all, despite the deep meaning, and needs voice, especially the bumptious voice of a Booster. ....
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(Credit: courtesy art) Bored? Let’s take a trip back to the Roaring Twenties, that era of Prohibition when, ironically, the booze flowed more freely than ever. Fashionable young women flappers wore short skirts and bobbed their hair, the music was hot and boisterous parties lasted well into the night. It was called The Jazz Age, a term coined early in the decade by F. Scott Fitzgerald who more than any other artist in any form captured its reckless essence, most notably in his masterpiece, “The Great Gatsby.” Join us – remotely, via Zoom on Jan. 22 at the Library’s Friday Night Dialogues, for a discussion of the origins of the iconic novel, still regarded by literary critics and historians 100 years after its publication as the greatest American novel of the 20th Century. “Gatsby” is second only to “Ulysses” on the prestigious Modern Library 100 Best Novels list and is still a best-seller with worldwide sales of s ....
One of world s best copies of Captain America Comics No. 1 heads to auction Captain America Comics #1 (Timely, 1941) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white pages. DALLAS, TX .- Captain America turned 80 years old this week. He still doesn t look a day over 30. It must be the experimental serum. Or the ice bath. Though the date on Timely s Captain America Comics No. 1 reads March 1941, the first issue to feature Steve Rogers, sidekick Bucky and forever-enemy Red Skull actually arrived on newsstands on Dec. 20, 1940. To commemorate the landmark occasion, Heritage Auctions offers one of finest known copies in the Jan. 14-17 Comics & Comic Art event. The Captain America Comics No. 1 in this auction is graded VF+ 8.5 by Certified Guaranteed Company one of only three copies to receive such a mark, with only six known to be in better condition. In almost 20 years, Heritage has offered only two finer than the one that is showcased in an event that also features the best-known ....
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