The Great Thing About Blogging!
Meeting new people.
Have you been watching the World Cup? I have, along with Susi, The Geeky Bookworm, over in Berlin, Germany! We’ve watched together, screamed, hooted and hollered, and cheered over google chat. It’s been great! Well…except for the United States losing, that is. Susi and I agree that the vuvuzelas have to go.
Speaking of Germany, an author contacted me about my post on the true identity of Will Shakespeare entitled, The Dark Lady. Lev Raphael left me this erudite comment regarding the article I quoted:
“It’s a lovely fantasy, but Reform Judaism’s editors should have been more thorough and done some fact checking. Bassano Lanier was not a Jew, first of all. Her mother wasn’t, and there’s no proof whatsoever that her father was. As for the rest of the story, it’s a lovely fantasy constructed out of half-facts and suppositions and starts from a false premise: Shakespeare couldn’t have written the plays. This premise took root in the mid 1800s, more than two hundred years after Shakespeare died. That should give people pause.
Interested readers should check out James Shapiro’s “Contested Will,” Irvin Matus’s “Shakespeare in Fact,” and http://www.bibliobuffet.com/book-brunch-columns-322/1304-anyone-but-shakespeare-062010
Mr. Raphael is the author of My Germany. He’ll be speaking in Berlin this fall.
http://www.levraphael.com
Watch an excerpt of the book at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFhrajH-6AE
Yes, I’d like to think that Shakespeare was a woman - it’s a very romantic notion, ah well…
Thanks to the blog hop, I’ve met some great new book bloggers, like Steph at Fangs, Wands and Fairy Dust. We’ve been discussing True Blood. http://fangswandsandfairydust.blogspot.com/
And today I was thrilled to find a new-to-me site, (it’s a long story), Kelly and Five Agents and a Funeral - a name I find hilarious! http://www.fiveagentsandafuneral.com/
News: Little by little, I’m doing better. I’m no longer crying all the time. I can’t wait to see the puppies, but that won’t be until we get back from ten days in Montana - leaving on Friday. Author Stacey Espino has had a great week with her new release, Saving Grace. I think she’s like, um, numero uno over at Siren. I’m sending many positive thoughts to my friends, authors Regina Carlysle and Paris Brandon who’ve faced some tough personal challenges lately. All right, going to bed, night.
