The series of mysteries that begins with this novel and features almost eleven year old detective, chemist, and poison expert Flavia de Luce has been on my radar for some time now, but I finally used my Barnes and Noble gift card to buy The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie and I’m determined …
Category Archive: 1950
Jan 19
1950: Events and Inventions
January 26, 1950. The new constitution of India is ratified, forming a republic, and Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as India’s first president. March 6, 1950. Scientist Klaus Fuchs is sentenced to 14 years in prison for passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. April 27, 1950. In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is …
Jan 16
1950: Books and Literature
The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Bertrand Russell won the Nobel Prize for Literature. The National Book Awards are established and the fiction award is presented by former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt to author Nelson Ahlgren for his book, Man With the Golden Arm. The Door in …
Sep 15
The Attenbury Emeralds by Jill Paton Walsh
Jill Paton Walsh has continued the story of Dorothy Sayers’ famous sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey, in her books Thrones, Dominations and A Presumption of Death. These two bring the story into the early 1940s, while Paton Walsh’s third installment, The Attenbury Emeralds, takes place after World War II with Lord Peter and his wife, the …
Sep 05
Friday Night at the Cinema: All About Eve
We watched All About Eve, a 1950 movie with Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, and Hugh Marlowe. Brown Bear Daughter said it was “the creepiest movie ever, except for Signs and The Village.” Anne Baxter plays what we nowadays would call a stalker; she idolizes actress Margo Channing (Bette Davis). Ms. Channing …
Jun 08
The Loud Silence of Francine Green by Karen Cushman
“It was probably just a silly rumor, but I’d heard that nuns had their heads shaved, and I was afraid they relaxed by taking off their veils and running around bald, something I certainly did not want to see.” A lot of this book reads like a “silly rumor”. However, some of it is true-to-history, …
Mar 20
Picture Book Preschool Book of the Week (12)
Springtime for Jeanne-Marie by Francoise Seignobosc. Z-baby loves this story. The little French girl, Jeanne-Marie, loses her pet duck, Madalon. Jeanne-Marie also has a pet sheep, Patapon, and she and Patapon set off down the river to look for Madalon. Of course, they ask everyone they meet whether or not they have seen a little …
Nov 26
Cartoon King
He was born on November 26, 1922, and his friends called him “Sparky.” He became “the highest paid, most widely read cartoonist ever.” The very first Peanuts comic strip, written by Charles M. Schulz, appeared in seven newspapers on October 2, 1950. A few good words from Sparky: There’s a difference between a philosophy and …
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