The Queen discovers reading and becomes an avid reader. Her staff is upset. She's not supposed to read. Where they used to know what questions she would ask and would brief people on how to respond, now the conversation could go anywhere. She used to take suggestions from the young man who introduce...
A short novella on the joys, growth and enlightenment reading can bring, even to the most enlightened, at any time in life. It's also an accurate portrayal of the consuming obsession reading can become (truth, as we all well know). Layered atop this testimony of the power of the word is another...
Dieses Buch ist nicht, wie erst gedacht, aufgebaut aus zusammenhängenden Geschichten und Anekdoten, es ist mehr eine zusammengewürfelte Veröffentlichung von allen möglichen Texten zu Kunst, die vom Autor irgendwann einmal geschrieben wurden. So finden sich Vorträge, Tagebucheinträge, ein eher in die...
This was an absolutely delightful meditation on the value of reading. The idea of the Queen becoming a voracious reader was inspired, as was Bennett's description of how her staff responds to this dismaying development. But how he used the premise to comment on what makes reading worthwhile is the r...
Not much to say about this one other than that it was a bit of a disappointment: The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson, I have no doubt, was penned to shock more than it was penned to incite thoughts about the perception of quiet, middle-class, older ladies. But Bennett's taking apart of assumptions abo...
Un mercoledì qualunque, la regina s’imbatte nella biblioteca circolante e inizia la grande trasformazione.Sua maestà scopre il piacere di leggere, e la lettura sovverte ogni regola.Si sa: i libri aprono porte imprevedibili, producono pensieri o pensieri inimmaginabili, accendono idee inaudite, scuot...
The musings of Alan Bennett, based on his observations of people and his experience of life in general, are almost guaranteed too draw a smile from even the most world-weary. As one reads his diarised account of life after the eccentric Miss Shepherd had moved her clapped-out van into his front gard...
A travelling library makes its weekly stop at Buckingham Palace. The Queen borrows a book. Then she discovers the joy of reading. This book started off just okay and ended worse.
Quite nostalgic about the movie.This screenplay is similar to [b:Dead Poets Society|67238|Dead Poets Society |N.H. Kleinbaum|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1359814692s/67238.jpg|1207563], only more sexualized: sexual molestation and homosexuality. In spite of them, it is a fun book, a slice of life a...
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