Oct 29 2008
Carola Hoyos and Javier Blas in The Financial Times (London, October 28 2008), in an article called “W ... “Low oil prices are very dangerous for the world economy,” said Mohamed Bin Dhaen Al Hamli, the United Arab Emirates’...
More here: Whistling past the graveyard
Oct 29 2008
Emma Donoghue, author of The Sealed Letter, will be guest blogging here at Savvy Reader for the next few days. In her first post, Donoghue discusses the inexplicable pull of the courtroom drama and its influence on her latest novel. As an aside, I'd have to admit that I have a similar obsession for the other side -- the cop drama. To date, I'm still mourning the loss of The Wire and have been reading Laura Lippman just so I can have that little taste of Baltimore. Right, guest blogging...witho
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Guest Blogger - Emma Donoghue
Oct 29 2008
The eleventh annual British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) were announced on Tuesday 28 October at Soho House in London. The Boy In the Striped Pyjamas featured heavily. Vera Farmiga (Best Actress), Best Newcomer (Asa Butterfield) and Best Director (Mark Herman) are nominated and it was also announced that David Thewlis will received a lifetime achievement award. The films receiving the most nominations are Hunger and In Bruges tied with seven nominations each. Slumdog Millionaire follows
Oct 28 2008
THE BIG NEWS on the Internet yesterday was that federal authorities arrested two skinhead cretins who were plotting to kill over a hundred black people, including Barack Obama. Now, these . . .
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American Politics Is Getting Ugly…And Dangerous
Oct 24 2008
London, Ontario has been focused on retaining and embracing its creative class. ... The city remains optimistic that it’s on the right track toward becoming a creative city–w hich has been good news for its economy....
Continue here: I'm a Broken Record
Oct 24 2008
... et to fully filter down to the somatic economy (although unemployment, prices, and home repossessions climb gradually). ... not that I’m for a moment equating those desperate and bleak lives that London chronicles with any of our own more trifling worries —...
Continue here: "Depression in trade also plays an important part in hurling the workers into the Abyss"
Oct 23 2008
I found Danielle Cormier (aka ctegan) because she started following me on Twitter (here she is, and here I am). I don't normally follow my own new tweebles, or investigate who they are. Shocking, I know. However, something made me click on the twitter notification and go and take a look at Danielle's stuff. Turns out Danielle and I have a bit in common. She's not only a writer, but does a bit of scrapbooking also. And she's taking the How to Think Sideways course too. Plus she likes Fantasy a
More here: ListManiac - 101 in 1001 Days
Oct 23 2008
A few years after saving her father my Mom married a young (and handsome) Navy officer who was making a quick career in newly Communist Poland. He was only 26 when he became the Commander of a Communist Poland Navy ship visiting London in 1955, for the first time since the end of the Second World War. He even met Queen Elizabeth and his young face showed on the cover pages of magazines in Poland. He was a Communist role model! In 1956 he was sent for three years to study in the Naval Academy in
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I MET STALIN – PART II
Oct 21 2008
He did it by invoking the sacrifice of a brave young American - a Muslim American - who rests in Arlington National Cemetery under a headstone adorned with a crescent. It was an important moment in American politics and for American ...
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It bears repeating; this is for all American Muslims
Oct 21 2008
I thought I’d get in on the spooky fun and do my own version of Halloween. Today I’m talking about two ghostly tales I’ve read recently. But first – I’m guest blogging with JK Coi today. My post is about afternoon tea, the Ritz in London and I have a recipe for Neenish Tarts, which is one of my childhood favorites. You can see my post here. The first book I read was The Remains of the Dead by Wendy Roberts. It’s the first book in the Ghost Dusters Mystery series. Sadie Novak owns Scene-2-Cle
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Ghostly Tales
