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


    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]

    Friday 20 April 2012

    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

    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 ...

    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. 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. 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 ...


    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.