Friday 11 May 2012

LAST B2 Library Mayhem

    Fellow library patrons,
    the time for your presentations on literature is nigh, 
    so I present you again with the lists of books to look upon:
    that welcomed last-minute additions, or maybe a summer reading? Read away!


    Here you can check the most actual list, also with books borrowed (to be returned!):

    Here's an experimental version of the same, where it is easier to search by year, author, title, publisher, etc.

    And here's the table of the books, newly arrived from Edinburgh:
    NEW!! Click on the title to see their description and reviews from Amazon:
    37. Shaw, Bernard: Saint Joan


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    Wednesday 9 May 2012

    LAST B2 Literary Mayhem No.19 - Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

    First of all - I am awaiting your presentations on the books next week! Book of your choice! 

    I will be judging - 1.flow, 2.clarity, 3.vocabulary, 4.grammar and of course 5.the content. Four points each. 


    And now,
    Long ago, men went to sea, and women waited for them, standing on the edge of the water, scanning the horizon for the tiny ship. Now I wait for He nry. He vanishes unwillingly, without warning. I wait for him. Each moment that I wait feels like a year, an eternity. Each moment is as slow and transparent as glass. Through each moment I can see infinite moments lined up, waiting. Why has he gone where I cannot follow? 
    My name is Claire, and I am The Time Traveler's Wife 

    Here's my story in words read

    Here's my story in words spoken

    And here's my author, Audrey Niffenegger
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    Friday 4 May 2012

    B2 Literary Mayhem No.18/2 Gump and Co. by Winston Groom

    Some of you complained about not enough reading to do, so here's a funny one for those, I am going to ask questions about both texts on Forrest in two weeks and I am also awaiting your presentations on the books you have read. Enjoy your reading! and listening (I am attaching the audiobook this time as well)

    Hello again, My Name is Forrest Gump and,
    LET ME SAY THIS: EVERBODY MAKES MISTAKES, WHICH IS WHY THEY PUT A RUBBER MAT AROUND SPITOONS.
    BUT TAKE MY WORD FOR IT—DON'TNEVER LET NOBODY MAKE A MOVIE OF YOURLIFE'S STORY.
    Whether they get it right or wrong, it don't matter.
    Problem is, people be comin up to you all the time, askin
    questions, pokin TV cameras in your face, wantin your
    autograph, tellin you what a fine feller you are. Ha! If bullshit
    came in barrels, I'd get me a job as a barrel-maker an have
    more money than Misters Donald Trump, Michael Mulligan,
    an Ivan Bozosky put together. 
    AUDIO
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    Gump & Co. (or Forrest Gump and Co.) is a 1995 novel by Winston Groom. It is the sequel to his novel Forrest Gump (1986), and theAcademy Award-winning film Forrest Gump (1994), with Tom Hanks.[1]

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    Friday 20 April 2012

    B2 Literary Mayhem No 18 / Forrest Gump

    Hullo, 

    My name is Forrest Gump and

    LET ME SAY THIS: BEIN A IDIOT IS NO BOX OF CHOCOLATES.

     here's my story


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    My creator is the American writer Winston Groom, but I was made popular by Tom Hanks in a Robert Zemeckis Movie
    http://www.tomhanks-online.com/media/video/detail/88/forrest-gump-making-of


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    Friday 30 March 2012

    B2 Literary Mayhem 17/2, The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck

    again, before you read this: don't forget the "gorilla" translations (by e-mail) and to check out new books in library: 

    Hello again from John Steinbeck,

    Here's some of mine, from my 1961 novel, The Winter Of Our Discontent, for you to read until next week:

    We are also going to listen to an excerpt from my 1962 Nobel Prize Acceptance speech, which you can see here:
    or here

    John Steinbeck - Nobel Prize Speech - YouTube

    ► 5:27► 5:27
    		www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SKEODtaQUU3. aug. 2010 - 5 min. -
    John Steinbeck's speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1962 ...
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    Monday 26 March 2012

    B2 Literary Mayhem 17, Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

    before you read this: don't forget the "gorilla" translations and to check out new books in library: 

    Hello gang, 
    my name is John Steinbeck, and I'm telling you this:

    We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — "Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought."

     I am going to be your host for the next two weeks starting with my 1945 novel about Cannery Row in Monterrey, California:

    Cannery Row

    Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. Cannery Row is the gathered and scattered, tin and iron and rust and splintered wood, chipped pavement and weedy lots and junk heaps, sardine canneries of corrugated iron, honky tonks, restaurants and whore houses, and little crowded groceries, and laboratories and flophouses... 

    more:

    audio to chapter: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4iDA8dEogrHQUFMR1FGZjVSck9IanJ4U2kwUzdkZw

    1. ► 16:35► 16:35

      Steinbeck's Cannery Row - C-SPAN Video Library 

      c-spanvideo.org25 Apr 2002 - 17 min
      Mr. Hemp talked about Cannery Row in Monterey, JohnSteinbeck's novels, and Steinbeck's treatment of ...
    2. ► 2:51► 2:51

      Our drive along Steinbeck's Cannery Row in ... 

      youtube.com21 Apr 2009 - 3 min - Uploaded by AvikJan
      This is Cannery Row made famous by author John Steinbeckwho wrote the Grapes or Rath and Of Mice and ...


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    Friday 16 March 2012

    B2 Literary Mayhem No. 16/2 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

    BEFORE YOU READ THIS: please remember we will start the class discussing one quote you liked from what we've read so far.


    Hello again,
    you might know me as Ray Bradbury and I am going to continue telling you my story about a fireman, called Guy Montag and his young friend, Clarisse McCLellan


    here it is: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4iDA8dEogrHbVJEdGlweTZRNnlGZl8zclI4X0N1Zw

    The story is from the novel Fahrenheit 451. You might borrow the novel from you teacher, or read it online.




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    Sunday 11 March 2012

    B2 Literary Mayhem No. 16 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

    before you read this: please don't forget your answers/quotes on The Great Gatsby. We'll start from those and have some fun with translation.

    Hello fellow humans,
    they call me Ray Bradbury and my job is to help you fall in love. "A life's work should be based on love," is what I say..

    But the one I value the most is called Fahrenheit 451. It is a dystopian novel, and 451 degrees Fahrenheit is the temperature at which book paper burns.

    Here's what we're going to read together:
    if you're interested, you can also read the whole book online or borrow it from me

    Enjoy!




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    p.s.
    Iconic author Ray Bradbury and Playboy founder Hugh Hefner talk with LATimes.com blogger Geoff Boucher (Hero Complex) about how TV and radio inspired Fahrenheit 451, the connection between the novel and Playboy magazine and why Bradbury thinks of himself as a "pomegranate."
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    Friday 24 February 2012

    C1/B2 Library Mayhem



    Fellow friends, here is the list of new books in the library, donated from the SCSSS Fund Book Club
    If you click at the book title, an Amazon.co.uk page will open for the edition that we have


    1. Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe
    2. Collins, Wilkie: Moonstone
    3. Dickens, Charles: The Tale of Two Cities
    4. Bradbury, Ray: Fahrenheit 451

    5. Dylan et Matlin (prod.): The Caedmon Short Story Collection 
    6. James, Henry: Washington Square
    7. Kerouac, Jack: Dharma Bums
    8. Defoe Daniel: Moll Flanders
    9. Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    10. Grisham, John: The Pelican Brief
    11. Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World
    12. Davies, David Stuart (ed.): Short Stories from the 19th Century
    13. Salinger, JD: The Catcher in the Rye
    14. James, Henry: Daisy Miller
    15. Green, Graham: Under the Garden
    16. Wharton, Edith: Madame of Treymes
    17. Wells, H.G.: The Red Room and other Stories
    18. Lawrence, D.H.: Sons and Lovers
    19. Stevenson, Robert Louis: Treasure Island
    20. Tolkien, J.R.R: The Hobbit
    21. Orwell, George: Nineteen Eighty Four
    22. Wellsh, Irvine: Trainspotting
    And here's an new list of ALL books in our small literary library


    and a little experimental feature where you can order them according to the year published, author, title, level...


    If you want to borrow the books, or have any questions, contact me here or in class.

    Thank you.

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    B2 Literary Mayhem No. 15 The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald

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    "Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known."


    My name is Nick Carraway and I am telling you a story of my friend, Jay Gatsby:

    I want you to read the story before the class and see if you can answer the questions here:


    The Great Gatsby (1925) is one of the greatest American classics. The novel was written in Paris by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and it has come to be seen as a representation of the Jazz Age (or Roaring Twenties).  Read the whole novel here  or borrow it from me ;)


    more interesting Gatsbys
    Robert Redford as Jay Gatsby
    Great Gatsby explained in 60 seconds (tm)
    Great Gatsby Adventure!
    Could You Survive 1920s?

     How much do you know about Fitzgerald's works and life? Print out the puzzle, complete it, and compare your answers to the solution.
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    Friday 10 February 2012

    B2 Literary Mayhem No. 14 The Call of the Wild by Jack London

    Fellows,


    I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.

    My name is Jack  London, and you are going to read my story about a dog called Buck. The name of the story is The Call of The Wild. Here you are:

    JackLondon-office-1916.jpg

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    Friday 27 January 2012

    B2 Literary Mayhem No.13 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

    before you read this: don't forget to send me your Kerouac translations before Sunday midnight!

    Friends,
    A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it. So, here's what I've got to say:

    "For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed." (Ernest Hemingway's Nobel Prize Acceptance speech)

    The Nobel Prize in Literature 1954 was awarded to Ernest Hemingway "for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style".
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC_ZksjsnRQ
    Words from Ernest Hemingway and music from Fugazi. 
    A Come Up, Kinch production.
    Gil (Owen Wilson) is introduced to Ernest Hemingway (Corey Stoll) in Woody Allen's Midnight In Paris
    Aleksandr Petrov, the one man Army behind this classic adaptation, has achieved so many well deserved prestigious awards for this once in a life time movie.
    readings from the novella, plus interviews with folks from Cuba who knew Papa back in the day, including Ernesto Garcia Gutierrez.

    Ernest Miller Hemingway
    Born: 21 July 1899, Oak Park, IL, USA
    Died: 2 July 1961, Ketchum, ID, USA
    Residence at the time of the award: USA
    Prize motivation: "for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style"
    Language: English
    Ernest Miller Hemingway

    Biography

    Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), born in Oak Park, Illinois, started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of seventeen. After the United States entered the First World War, he joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army. Serving at the front, he was wounded, was decorated by the Italian Government, and spent considerable time in hospitals. After his return to the United States, he became a reporter for Canadian and American newspapers and was soon sent back to Europe to cover such events as the Greek Revolution.

    During the twenties, Hemingway became a member of the group of expatriate Americans in Paris, which he described in his first important work, The Sun Also Rises (1926). Equally successful was A Farewell to Arms (1929), the study of an American ambulance officer's disillusionment in the war and his role as a deserter. Hemingway used his experiences as a reporter during the civil war in Spain as the background for his most ambitious novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). Among his later works, the most outstanding is the short novel,The Old Man and the Sea (1952), the story of an old fisherman's journey, his long and lonely struggle with a fish and the sea, and his victory in defeat.

    Hemingway - himself a great sportsman - liked to portray soldiers, hunters, bullfighters - tough, at times primitive people whose courage and honesty are set against the brutal ways of modern society, and who in this confrontation lose hope and faith. His straightforward prose, his spare dialogue, and his predilection for understatement are particularly effective in his short stories, some of which are collected in Men Without Women (1927) and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938). Hemingway died in Idaho in 1961.
    From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1901-1967, Editor Horst Frenz, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1969
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