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Reading Rilke Again
Started by Shaye in Reflections on Life Jun 11. 0 Replies 0 Loves
If your a writer and you haven't read Rilke's, Letters to a Young Poet, do yourself a favor. It lives by my bedside and travels everywhere I go, I am currently wearing out my fourth copy. –Rainier Maria Rilke (Letters to a Young Poet) “Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write: find out whether it is spreading its roots into the deepest places of your heart, acknowledge to yourself whether you would have to die if it were denied you to write. This above all--ask yourself in…Continue
CB Members' Award-Winning Books
Started by Roman Payne in Books We’re Reading Jun 11. 0 Replies 2 Loves
June 11th 2013 - Here are a couple CB members we're showing off today: Bob van Laerhoven (Belgium) and Lee Case (USA)...CB Member Bob van Laerhoven's novel (written in Dutch) won the Hercule Poirot Prize for best suspense novel of the year. He now has a literary agent in the USA and has recorded an English language MP3 to introduce CulturalBook members to his oeuvre:…Continue
How best to serialise?
Started by Danny Jorgensen in Publishing Jun 7. 0 Replies 0 Loves
I want ot serialise a story I'm working on, and I'm trying to work out how best ot start publishing.The story that will consist of around 120 chapters (prob 4000-6000 words each), spaced five years apart for the body of the story. I should be able to start releasing them in a month or so.I was thinking of putting out the first few chapters for free, to get feedback and so on, and then publish them one at a time, every week or two, for about 15-30 cents each. Probably on Kobo, Kindle, and…Continue
Member Opportunities / ♪ by Lee Crase / ✎ by Pietros Maneos
Started by Roman Payne in Free Member Offers Jun 7. 0 Replies 2 Loves
Members, you are invited to share your... ✎ Literary Quotes✎ and/or ♪ Audio Files ♪Information Below ▼ But first...Please listen to this audio recording by CulturalBook member Lee Crase: Bleeding-History-Lee-Crase.m4aPlease read today's literary quote (DLQ) by CB member Pietros Maneos: www.dailyliteraryquote.comTo…Continue
DISCUSSION: The Furious Poet and A Damned German Keyboard...
Started by Roman Payne in Music. Last reply by Chalice Divine Jun 7. 8 Replies 4 Loves
Scheiße !! It's the novelist's nightmare: the keyboard on my laptop broke almost 24 hours ago... it is a keyboard in English, as the novel I am writing is in English... And since I live in Paris, I cannot find a keyboard English very easily. So, in despair, I first bought an external keyboard French (a language I know fluently); but since French keyboards have the letters all in the wrong order. But this proved clumsy to write on, so I then bought a keyboard in German (a language I do not…Continue
Colette Quote Today
Started by Shaye in Reflections on Life. Last reply by Curtiss Plaskon Jun 2. 1 Reply 2 Loves
This was an excellent “heads up” for me, just the reminder I needed! But if I may be so presumptuous as to add: You must become a writer before you can become an author, and that means writing down all the “twaddle” as Katherine Mansfield called it.“I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was, too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.” Katherine Mansfield Continue
Just Say No!
Started by Gatzby in CulturalBook the Website. Last reply by Terri Price Jun 1. 8 Replies 4 Loves
In my inbox (my reply follows)-Hello, CulturalBook members. In the past week we've acquired about a dozen new members whose profiles promote some kind of wellness product: colon cleanse, weight loss, wrinkle cream, and other similar products that have nothing to do with the theme of CulturalBook. Also, most of their profile photos vs. profile descriptions clearly show that somehow they have done an excellent job of changing genders.Should these "members" be deleted? Please let me know your…Continue
BOYTA 2012 AWARDS
Started by João Cerqueira in CulturalBook the Website May 31. 0 Replies 0 Loves
NEW%20BOTYA%20sticker-Finalist%20gold.jpgMy novel The Tragedy of Fidel Castro is one of the BOTYA 2012 Finalists in Translations. The others are Dom Quixote, by Cervantes; The plain in flames by Juan Rulfo; and The world Eve left us by Boston Teran.…Continue
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Today's Quote
Posted by Herbert B. Fox on June 19, 2013 at 8:12am 0 Comments 0 Loves
Today's quote:
"The true Greek, is a god, not a cautious, precise, calculating being with the soul of an engineer."
is completely offensive to those of us who do have the soul of an engineer.
It makes absolutely no sense to repeat such stupidity.
tolerance
Posted by Jack Spratt on June 19, 2013 at 12:46am 0 Comments 0 Loves
The peace I know upon awakening within the cyclonic change, surfing rogue waves, somewhat akin to awakening before execution at dawn is: Attributable to my merciless engagement with vanity, my own.…
Continue pruning myself
Posted by Jack Spratt on June 16, 2013 at 5:26pm 0 Comments 0 Loves
Falling, mortally wounded by exhaustion, both physical and psychological, to sleep, I dream and in the dreams are dialogs. And this one was a massive endless conversation about love. In reference of which I now envision pruning…
Continue loom of dawn
Posted by Jack Spratt on June 15, 2013 at 2:51pm 0 Comments 0 Loves
Woven together on the loom of our time, we the many dissimilar threads, which in their turn are woven by birth and life’s experience form the fabric, or tapestry, of our collective history going forward. Making the bone yard of what…
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Pietros Maneos posted a blog postA thoughtful and detailed review of 'The Italian Pleasures of Gabriele Paterkallos.'
A reader doesn't read the 'Italian Pleasures;' rather, the reader is ravished by them, drawn into a world of debauchery, pleasure, rare and mostly bygone aesthetics and noble ideals in a timeless yet undeniably contemporary account of the fictional Gabriele Paterkallos, set mostly ...in Italy though he does write of and from other locations. Maneos's book is a a supposedly stolen collection of letters written by the title's namesake to another writer, Odysseus Pane, that are a continual…See More
Pietros Maneos posted a blog postA 5 star review of 'The Italian Pleasures of Gabriele Paterkallos' by John Newnham
If you are a Romantic I implore you to read this novella. Pietros Maneos will transport you into a world where beauty, and the pursuit of values, are transparently, heroically, portrayed. There is a secret at the heart of this lovingly told tale, wrapped in the arms of gorgeous prose. When I read this novella, I was saddened that it had to end. I had gotten to know Gabrielle Paterkallos intimately. The skill with which Pietros Maneos tells a story through letters, is a portend of things to…See More
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A thoughtful and detailed review of 'The Italian Pleasures of Gabriele Paterkallos.'
Posted on July 20, 2012 at 4:28pm 0 Comments 1 Love
A reader doesn't read the 'Italian Pleasures;' rather, the reader is ravished by them, drawn into a world of debauchery, pleasure, rare and mostly bygone aesthetics and noble ideals in a timeless yet undeniably contemporary account of the fictional Gabriele Paterkallos, set mostly ...in Italy though he does write of and from other locations. Maneos's book is a a supposedly stolen collection of letters written by the…
Continue A 5 star review of 'The Italian Pleasures of Gabriele Paterkallos' by John Newnham
Posted on July 15, 2012 at 6:00pm 0 Comments 2 Loves
If you are a Romantic I implore you to read this novella. Pietros Maneos will transport you into a world where beauty, and the pursuit of values, are transparently, heroically, portrayed. There is a secret at the heart of this lovingly told tale, wrapped in the arms of gorgeous prose.
When I read this novella, I was saddened that it had to end. I had gotten to know Gabrielle Paterkallos intimately. The skill with which Pietros Maneos tells a story through letters, is a portend of…
Another Five Star Review of 'The Italian Pleasures of Gabriele Paterkallos'
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 4:29pm 0 Comments 0 Loves
This novella is a joy to read. It intertwines beautiful writing ("Tonight the moon looks like a hammock of hammered gold brushed with ashen silver"), humor and humanity in a very clever way. The story unfolds via a series of letters that the main character of the novella, Gabriele Paterkallos, writes to his dear friend, Odysseus Pane. Gabriele is an interesting character, a dreamer, a romantic poet living in Rome. He takes the reader on a journey of discovery, telling tales of his passions,…
Continue Eva Xanthopoulos' Five Star Review of 'The Italian Pleasures of Gabriele Paterkallos'
Posted on May 14, 2012 at 3:26pm 0 Comments 2 Loves
Gabriele, a lover of both fiery passion and elegant beauty, is a character to be celebrated. The novella itself is a masterpiece to be celebrated. Maneos takes an empty canvas and transforms it into something unrecognizable with his alliterative words, wondrous metaphors, and his general appreciation of beauty. The character of Gabriele is both charming and witty. Passion and beauty may be dead in a mundane world, but they are very much alive in Gabriele's world. These personal letters…
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- At 9:40pm on October 17, 2012, Mimi Bildstein said…
Pietros, I quote myself, your "prose is divinely fluid, such as the Tiber River in the spring." ;-)
Your lovely-eyed Mimi!
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