Jamaica Gleaner Arts &Leisure
Published: Monday Sunday | January 18, 2009
All you need to know about ... The Obamas (Our picks of best books on the next First Couple)
With the historic inauguration of Barack Obama only a couple of days away, books written by and about the first black president and first lady of the United States have been flying off the shelves, all over the world.
Literary arts - Conned!
At dinnertime, he consumed all the food, belched and announced, "A ketch three!" He was actually referring to the three meals he had eaten, but they were convinced that he was on to them. The guest house, called the Windsor, looked dilapidated and run down, but it was never out of guests.
Sunday Sauce - What a cloth!
All my life, I have heard people around me punctuating their speech with words cut from certain colourful Jamaican fabric, but because of my upbringing I wasn't allowed to use such vernaculars. You see, they carry a certain indecent connotation, unbecoming of people of my ilk.
Book review - 'Falling in Love' puts twinkle in the eye
A light-hearted spirit sparkles in 'Falling in Love' After Fifty ... The Best is Yet to Come, but the authors certainly do not take the matter of women keeping that spring in their step and bed springs squeaking as they get older, lightly.