The Man Booker Prize for 2011 will be announced tonight. The six short-listed titles are:

The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes

Jamrach's Menagerie, Carol Birch

The Sister's Brothers, Patrich deWitt

Half Blood Blues, Esi Edugyan

Pigeon English, Stephen Kelman

Snowdrops, A. D. Miller

http://www.themanbookerprize.com/
Two Canadian authors made the list: Patrick deWitt and Esi Edugyan

Two first-time novelists made the list: Stephen Kelman and A. D. Miller

And the winner is: Julian Barnes ~ The Sense of An Ending

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Happy Birthday Elizabeth ~

5 Years Old Today

Our Elizabeth ~ 5 years old Today !!!

October 14

At Cottonwood Mansion ~
Reading of Edgar Allan Poe's Poems & Stories
Saturday 29 at 6:00 p.m. ~ Everyone Welcome

An Evening at Cottonwood Mansion http://www.cottonwoodmansion.ca/
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On Understanding Poetry ~

"The poet's mind is . . . a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together."
~ T. S. Eliot

"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose ~ words in their best order; poetry ~ the best words in their best order."
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Take care of the sounds and the sense will take care of itself."
~ Lewis Carroll

"When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must."
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

"No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing."
~ T. S. Eliot


Source: The Fitzhenry & Whiteside BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, Edited by Robt. Fitzhenry,1981

Looking at the autumn trees, "I always will be healed. . ." ~ written by Shiko Koga, Japan

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