Jamaica Gleaner
Published: Sunday | May 31, 2009
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Book Review - Tormented,erotic four-liners
On the back of the book there is a small picture of the Jamaica-born author. His ears are pointed, and his piercing eyes are looking straight at you, and perhaps at the 11 years that he spent with a woman named Anna. The 320 quatrains in this 127-page book were written within a month shortly after they broke up.

Literary Arts - Secret Addiction
I was addicted to him, seriously addicted. I was so obsessed with Mark that I could feel him coursing through my veins. I could smell his scent, feel his presence, hear his thoughts, think of him and he would call. Mark was not a habit; he was a craving, a need, an obsession.

SUNDAY SAUCE - When Esperanza came
At age 33, Michael is not married. Yet, he has a good job, and all the trappings he could have wanted. Many a woman he has had, but none he settles with. And he seems not to be bothered by his prying friends and relatives, especially his mother, Madge, and his aunt, Mona. Churchwomen they are.

Mills launches book
Ambassador Don Mills recently launched his new book, Journeys and Missions - At Home And Away, in the Don Mills Training Room at the Planning Institute of Jamaica. The book documents developments in Jamaica's history over the past 75 years - from colonialism to independence, and further on to active involvement on the international stage.

Literary Arts - What's in a name?
Mango season has returned like a merry-go round and I'm so glad! Where I live, the mango trees don't bear. We get our mangoes from the mango women who pass the gate selling mangoes. Two hampers, full of mangoes, are loaded on to the donkeys' backs and the women sell us mangoes from these hampers.

Tower Isle murals regain beauty, share history again
The renovation of Couples Tower Isle, formerly Couples Ocho Rios, is now complete and the hotel is in operation. As with the other hotels in the Couples chain, it has fallen in line with the desire of interior decorator, Jane Issa, to indulge visitors with the best Jamaica has to offer

Letter from Laura - What's new in Paris?
The awesome Musée du quai Branly, 'where cultures meet in dialogue,' is what's new in Paris! Opened in 2007 on the banks of the Seine just a short stroll from the Eiffel Tower, every audio/visual technique has been incorporated into an architecturally modern design to give one a marvellous entry into other worlds.


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