Tag Archives: Stephen Vincent Benet

From Captain Kangaroo to Stephen King

Posted on January 19, 2018 by Tonette Joyce

The question of the week is: Which celebrity do you wish would hold up one of your published books on a national stage (or TV) and say, “Hey, everybody should read this!”? I am not someone who is in awe … Continue reading →

Posted in authors, Books, careers, goals, horror stories, imagination, inspirational people, Lists, Miscellaneous, novels, reading preferences, short stories, Tonette Joyce | Tagged Allyssa MIlano, Bob Keeshan, Brad Pitt, Captain Kangaroo, Cecelia Ahern, George Clooney, Halle Berry, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kelly Ripa, Linae Moriarty, Mary Janice Davidson, Oprah, Penelope Cruz, poetry, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sean Bean, Stephen Vincent Benet, The Littlest Snowman with the Red Candy Heart, Wlt Whitman | 9 Comments

“Occasional” Books

Posted on June 17, 2016 by Tonette Joyce

Our topic this week is to tell what books we might give to a person for a special occasion, crossing a milestone. For instance, a wedding. That one is easy: “Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus”. I scoffed … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, childhood, Life, Tonette Joyce, writing | Tagged book suggestions, Gift books, Guy De Maupassant, I Want a Hat Like That, Men Are From Mars, Robert Louis Stevenson Stevenson, Scrawny Lion, Sesame Street, Stephen Vincent Benet, The Bishop's Beggar, The Care and Feeding of Sick Children, The Little Red Caboose, The Necklace, The Owl and the Pussycat, The Tawny, Tootle, Winken and Blinken and Nod, Women Are From Venus, Write Source 2000 | 5 Comments

Good Books,Good Movies?

Posted on May 15, 2015 by Tonette Joyce

This week’s question is: What books do we think would make good movies? That is harder to answer than I first thought. There is usually a great deal of change between book and getting it to the screen. In some … Continue reading →

Posted in authors, Books, movies, protagonists, Random thoughts, reading preferences, Tonette Joyce, writing | Tagged "There's No Place Like Here", "Where Rainbows End", Artemis Fowl, Cecilia Ahern, Davis Way series, Eoin Colfer, Eugene O'Neill, Forrest Gump, Geoff Rodkey, Getchen Archer, Ghost Girl, Harry Potter, If you could see me now, Italian Kitchen series, Janet Evanovich, Katherine Heigl, Lilies of the Field, One For the Money, P.S. I Love You, Rachel Joyce, Rachel Joyce's 'Perfect', Rosie Dunne, Rosie Genova, Standards and Practices, Stange Interlude, Stephen Vincent Benet, The Bishop's Beggar, The Chronicles of Egg, The Hayes Office, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Frye, Tonya Hurley | 4 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

To Question or Not To Question; that is the Question

Posted on January 24, 2014 by Tonette Joyce

The topic this week is what question we would like to ask of our favorite authors. I cannot tell you what a bookhound I am. I am , and always have been, an avid reader,and before that, a compulsive listener. … Continue reading →