Readers weigh in on favorite books and opinions
Adam Strunk surveys readers in Lawrence and Lenexa sharing book picks and critiques. Laura Bilhimer praises Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London, Jenny Halling notes Fifty Shades of Grey, Elise Loney praises A Game of Thrones, Jacob Wilders discusses Infinite Jest, Rae Hatfield reviews Happier at Home and why these titles resonate today.
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Laura Bilhimer
Lawrence
Paris
London
George Orwell
Jenny Halling
Lenexa
E.L. James
Poet’s Showcase Submission Instructions
The writer is invited to email poetry to kcallahan jworld.com with a subject line Poet’s Showcase. Include hometown and contact details to ensure correspondence. The notice outlines a simple, direct process for submitting work for possible publication or display.
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Kcallahan
Jworld.com
On the Road then and now a lifelong reading
In Jack Kerouac's On the Road time frames the restless quest for new experience while confronting mortality. Walter Salles's film adaptation is a museum piece, lifeless yet beautifully shot, failing to match the novel's momentary immediacy and mythic rush. The piece argues Kerouac's core message is knowing time to know ourselves, a truth the movie lacks.
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Jack Kerouac
Dean Moriarty
Kerouac
Neal Cassady
America
Walter Salles
New Jersey
Iowa
Pooh Bear
Wwe Ss
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
Sal
Cassady
John Clellon Holmes
Jack
Sal and
Dean
Books on Cinema Legends and Hidden Cast of Hollywood
A post holiday guide highlights three books on famed stars Mary Pickford Charlie Chaplin and John Wayne plus a study of Hollywood extras. It notes Pickford as America’s Sweetheart turned mogul and co founder of United Artists while Chaplin’s autobiography and Wayne’s archive filled portrait are explored alongside Anthony Slide’s Hollywood Unknowns tracing the life of bit players from silent to modern cinema.
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Hollywood
Christel Schmidt
Lord Fauntleroy
Pickford
Anthony Slide
Hollywood Studio Club
Drew Barrymore
Maurice Costello
Best-seller lists show top titles for week ending Dec 29
The weekly ranking lists ten books across two lists from major and independent stores. Leading titles include The Racketeer by John Grisham and Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, with authors such as Tom Clancy J K Rowling James Patterson and Stephen Colbert also featured among the top 10 both fiction and non fiction.
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John Grisham
Doubleday
Gillian Flynn
Crown
Tom Clancy
Putnam
J.K. Rowling
Little, Brown
Alex Cross
James Patterson
Janet Evanovich
Bantam
David Baldacci
Grand Central
Cross Roads
William Paul Young
FaithWords
Last
Vince Flynn
Atria
Black Box
Michael Connelly
Mantel wins Costa novel prize for Bring Up the Bodies
British writer Hilary Mantel wins the Costa Book Award for novel with Bring Up the Bodies, becoming the first to win both the Costa novel prize and the Booker in the same year. Winners include Kathleen Jamie for The Overhaul and Mary Talbot for Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes in biography.
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LonpDon
Hilary Mantel
Britain
Mantel
Kathleen Jamie
Francesca Segal
London
Edith Wharton
Sally Gardner
U.K
Ireland
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George R. R. Martin
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Kansas City
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Kansas City, Mo
Gretchen Rubin
Emily Tay le Bo
Mary Pickford: Queen of the Movies
United Artists
Screen
Schmidt
Douglas Fairbanks
Charlie Chaplin
David Robinson
Little Tramp
Phy
The
Chicago Tribune
John Wayne
Duke's
Patricia Bosworth
Ron Howard
Martin Scorsese
Wayne
John Ford
Howard Hawks
William Wellman
John Wayne Enterprises
Killing Kennedy
Bill O'Reilly
Henry Holt
Thomas Jefferson
Jon Meacham
Random House
Mark Owen
Dutton
Ina Garten
Clarkson Potter
Stephen Colbert
Grand
Costa Novelist Award
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