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It is often simply called a book club, a term that may cause confusion with a book sales club. Other terms include reading group, book group, and book discussion group. Book discussion clubs may meet in private homes, libraries, bookstores, online forums, pubs, and cafés, or restaurants, sometimes over meals or drinks.
Orville Ward Owen. Dr. Orville Ward Owen (January 1, 1854 – March 31, 1924) was an American physician, and exponent of the Baconian theory of Shakespearean authorship. Owen claimed to have discovered hidden messages contained in the works of Shakespeare/Bacon.
Philip Pullman was born in Norwich, England, the son of Audrey Evelyn Pullman (née Merrifield) and Royal Air Force pilot Alfred Outram Pullman.The family travelled with his father's job, including to Southern Rhodesia, though most of his formative years were spent in Llanbedr in Ardudwy, Wales.
Mad honey. Mad honey is honey that contains grayanotoxins.The dark, reddish honey is produced from the nectar and pollen of genus Rhododendron and has intoxicating effects.. Mad honey is produced principally in Nepal and Turkey, where it is used as a traditional medicine and recreational drug.
Discussion Questions. In Chapter One, Tolle discusses the reasons for reading A New Earth and what leads people toward awakening. He writes: "For some, it may have begun through loss or suffering ...
After its publication, the Bishop of London preached about When It Was Dark at Westminster Abbey.Calling it "a remarkable work of fiction" he said it depicts how the world would be if the Resurrection were proved to be a gigantic fraud. ". . .you feel the darkness creeping round the world, you see . . . crime and violence increase in every part of the world.
We Are for the Dark is a quotation from the final act of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, which was used by various writers as the title for their own works. We Are for the Dark (1944) by Dorothy Eden; We Are for the Dark: Six Ghost Stories (1951) by Elizabeth Jane Howard and Robert Aickman; We Are For The Dark (1987) by Robert Silverberg
The Gravediggers (or Clowns) are examples of Shakespearean fools (also known as clowns or jesters), a recurring type of character in Shakespeare's plays. Like most Shakespearean fools, the Gravediggers are peasants or commoners that use their great wit and intellect to get the better of their superiors, other people of higher social status, and each other.