Lovesome

The latter was particularly meaningful: While introducing it, Mr. Heath pondered Strayhorn's clever linguistics in devising the word "Lovesome," but then, perversely, his treatment of the flower was anything but lovesome.

Birthday Wishes, Halloween Dreams Will Friedwald 2011

For all his success as a composer (his most-played song is probably "Gingerbread Boy"), Mr. Heath's two birthday highlights were standards composed by his major inspirations, Charlie Parker ("Yardbird Suite") and Billy Strayhorn ("A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing").

Birthday Wishes, Halloween Dreams Will Friedwald 2011

They render the likes of "Johnny Come Lately" and "A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing" with a distinctly post-Miles Davis/Herbie Hancock sensibility, but they don 't fundamentally change the music — which sounds as good as it ever did.

Meditation Demonstrations Will Friedwald 2010

Transita send me all their new books and so The Gardener by Prue Leith, their latest and this a reissue of a book published some years ago as A Lovesome Thing by Penguin, looks interesting and has good blurbs from Sue MacGregor and Elizabeth Jane Howard (but not my current blurb friends Hilary Mantel and Joanne Harris)

Sunday Confessions on Thursday 2007

Transita send me all their new books and so The Gardener by Prue Leith, their latest and this a reissue of a book published some years ago as A Lovesome Thing by Penguin, looks interesting and has good blurbs from Sue MacGregor and Elizabeth Jane Howard (but not my current blurb friends Hilary Mantel and Joanne Harris)

Sunday Confessions on Thursday 2007

Transita send me all their new books and so The Gardener by Prue Leith, their latest and this a reissue of a book published some years ago as A Lovesome Thing by Penguin, looks interesting and has good blurbs from Sue MacGregor and Elizabeth Jane Howard (but not my current blurb friends Hilary Mantel and Joanne Harris)

51 entries from August 2007 2007

Lovesome patches of beaches perched between the sea and the hills behind, some 30 km. down south along the sea-front from Cox's Bazar, Inani is a quiet tourist hideout set out in the exuberance of nature.

Vote for cox Bazar 2008

The book was then called ‘A Lovesome Thing’ and apparently suffered the then distribution centre crisis at Penguin with only 6,000 of a 35,000 print being sold, and the rest being pulped.

Archive 2007-11-01 Martyn Daniels 2007

The book was then called ‘A Lovesome Thing’ and apparently suffered the then distribution centre crisis at Penguin with only 6,000 of a 35,000 print being sold, and the rest being pulped.

Author Connect Martyn Daniels 2007

But the gate which led to the Lovesome Garden was open wide, so that one might see the Cupid as he rode his swan.

The Tin Soldier Temple Bailey