Tag Archives: Boris Pasternak

Lost in Translation?

Posted on August 28, 2020 by Tonette Joyce

Two weeks ago I did a mishmash of a ‘review’ about two, (at least), books and touched on the fact that they were translated. Something that had been nagging in the back of my head for many decades came to … Continue reading →

Posted in America, Books, characters, dialogue, experiences, imagination, inspiration, memories, Music, novels, poetry, reading, Tonette Joyce, writers, writing | Tagged Boris Pasternak, choosing words in translation, coining words and phrases, Ernest Hemingway, Lyrics Shakespeare, play on words, Shrek, subtitles, translations, William Shakespeare | 9 Comments

The Good(?) Doctor

Posted on August 14, 2020 by Tonette Joyce

I was hard-pressed with family, plus behind in getting out interviews,(so they are slow coming in), and also hard-pressed to find a book to review whose author is not A) a former guest B) a future guest or C) the … Continue reading →

Posted in author's life, authors, biographies, Books, characters, novels, poetry, reading, subplots, Tonette Joyce, writers | Tagged Boris Pasternak, Boris Pasternak's life, Boris Pasternak's poetry, Dr.Zhivago, Dr.Zhivago's poetry, poetry, translations | 9 Comments

List-Ten

Posted on October 3, 2014 by Tonette Joyce

I am usually left out of many of the Facebook writer’s challenges because although I am a published writer, I am not a published book author. However, a rather famous author of my personal acquaintance recently hit me topic: Ten … Continue reading →

Posted in authors, Books, childhood, Friendship, Lists, Miscellaneous, poetry, Random thoughts, Tonette Joyce, writing | Tagged "There's No Place Like Here", A Remarkable Mother, Agatha Christie, An Hour Before Daylight, Anna Karenina, Artemis Fowl, Banned in the U.S.S. R., Boris Pasternak, Boris Pasternak's poetry, Can You See Me Now?, Cecelia Ahearn, Christmas In Plains, Daphne du Maurier, Doctor Zhivago, douglas adams, Dr, Eoin Colfer, Ernest Hemingway, Ghost Girl, Gretchen Archer, Hercule Poirot, James Herriot. All Creatures Great and Small, Janet Evanovich, Jimmy Carter, Kate Collins, Leo Tolstoy, MaryJanice Davidson, Oscar Wilde, Parnell Hall, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rosie Dunne, Stephen King., Stephen Vincent Benet, Thanks For the Memories, The Bishop's Beggar, the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, The Importance of Being Earnest, Tonya Hurley, War and Peace, William Shakespeare | 9 Comments

Free…Let’s Stay That Way

Posted on July 5, 2013 by Tonette Joyce

Our thoughts this week are to be on living in a free nation, and, yes, I am glad of it. In last year’s post. [ Now, It’s ‘Independence Day’ To Me posted on July 6, 2012] I talked about how … Continue reading →