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...paper's bureau there, becoming the only American newspaperman to cover Vietnam at war and Hanoi at peace. The opposite of a jaded war correspondent, Lamb captures the country he came to love mostly through its people: an eager young waiter who is making his way through Jane Austen (in English), a handicapped veteran who confesses to no anger except with himself; a young Vietnamese-Australian lawyer who works tirelessly to help resettle boat people; and 11 returning G.I.s who swap sneakers and old pictures with the men they once fought against...
...lost” in the snowy woods of New Hampshire or how she and Moshe used to argue incessantly. I remember Shira tap-dancing around all the time to the point where she inspired Ben to want to take tap classes. Then of course there were the beautiful Jane Austen era costumes Shira and Naamit made out of curtains for Purim sophomore year. There is no one story that can explain how wonderful Shira made my life. Sadly, even I didn’t fully realize it until last year...
...morsels, resulting in a surprisingly delectable and thoroughly readable collection of essays and reviews, written over the span of 30 years. Taken from (among others) the London Review of Books, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, the pieces in The War Against Cliché tackle everyone from Milton and Austen to Nabokov and Updike, with bits on Elvis’ mental health and Margaret Thatcher’s sex appeal thrown in for good measure...
...Earthsea has won the Newbery Silver Medal and four separate Children's Book of the Year awards. More than three million copies of her books are in print, and they include children's stories, poetry collections, and even a guide to writing that analyzes authors like Mark Twain, Jane Austen, J. R. R. Tolkien, and her favorite, Virginia Woolf...
...this is a very romantic romantic comedy. That Firth, who was the dark dreamboat Darcy in Pride and Prejudice, plays dull dreamboat Darcy here simply underlines the comedy-of-manners connection between Helen Fielding's work and Jane Austen's. This, for the most part, is a tale of comic good sense and poignant sensibility...